William Lindsey

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• Catholic Moral Theologian Lisa Fullam: An Argument for a Catholic Moral...

  

  At Bondings 2.0, Catholic moral theologian Lisa Fullam takes a careful look at the U.S. Catholic Bishops' argument that Catholics must oppose civil marriage... Read more

  Posted on 16 April 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Holy Thursday Again, and Return of the Don't Let Women Get a Foot on the Altar...

  

  And, as if to prove President Carter's point that in many of the world's religions, male religious leaders frequently read "their" scriptures in a highly... Read more

  Posted on 16 April 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Former President Carter on Women, Religion, Violence, and Power: An Interview...

  

  For Interfaith Voices, Sister Maureen Fiedler interviews President Jimmy Carter about his new book A Call to Action: Women, Religion, Violence and Power. Read more

  Posted on 16 April 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• A Reader Responds: There's a Big Difference Between Believing Homosexuality Is...

  

  On Sunday, I noted that the fateful 1986 document on the "pastoral" care of gay people issued by Cardinal Ratzinger (later Pope Benedict) arrived on the scene... Read more

  Posted on 15 April 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• A Reader Writes: "When Religion Becomes Unbelievably Corrupt . . . The Temple...

  

  On Saturday, I noted on the eve of Palm Sunday that many biblical scholars connect the decision of Jerusalem's Roman rulers to put Jesus to death to his... Read more

  Posted on 15 April 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Father Tom Doyle and Jerry Slevin on Abuse Crisis and Pope Francis: When Will...

  

  I highly recommend Father Tom Doyle's recent presentation (pdf) to the group Voice of the Faithful regarding where we find ourselves with the abuse crisis in th... Read more

  Posted on 14 April 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Charlotte Observer on Charlotte Catholic High Controversy: Kudos to Bishop...

  Writing for the Charlotte Observer, Peter St. Onge notes how . . . very odd . . . it is that Catholic Bishop Peter Jugis of Charlotte discovered the primacy of... Read more

  Posted on 14 April 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• "Everything We Do Seems Designed to Make This Thing Possible": Holy Week...

  

  Common threads: where is their shared point of origination, I wonder? And where are they all going? Where are the rest of us going, along with these threads tha... Read more

  Posted on 14 April 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• "You're Suffering from a Mental Illness, and Rationality Is Not Something That...

  

  Some of you may have noticed an interesting subtext that developed in threads here in the past several days, as we discussed the story of Sister Jane Dominic... Read more

  Posted on 13 April 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• "Those Squeezed Out Deliberately as Human Junk from the System’s Own Evil...

  For this weekend that begins Holy Week, some meditation points (for me, at least):Charles M. Blow notes that studies discover that when we sort ourselves into... Read more

  Posted on 12 April 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Message to Steve Kellmeyer: Please Feel Free to Comment Here, If You Respect...

  

  As I think about it, it's not entirely fair of me to block a commenter here and then discuss him or her as if the person I've blocked is not even in the room. Read more

  Posted on 11 April 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• End-of-Week News Snippets: Matters of Gender, Race, Moral Analysis of Economic...

  

  End-of-week news snippets about matters ranging from gender to race to moral analysis of the economic priorities of the American (and global) economies:Astra... Read more

  Posted on 11 April 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• My Letters to Bishop William Curlin and the Charlotte Catholic High School...

  

  I feel I should write . . . something . . . as a wrap-up to the series of postings (here, here, here, and here) providing excerpts from my letters to... Read more

  Posted on 11 April 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Charlotte Catholic High School Controversy: "I Began to Realize That the Abuse...

  

  Thanks to all of you who have been willing to listen (in some cases, again) to my cri de coeur to Bishop William J. Curlin of Charlotte in the 1990s, as I sough... Read more

  Posted on 10 April 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Charlotte Catholic High School Controversy: "When the Church Treats People as...

  

  For an explanation of the context of this posting, please see this preceding posting. In light of the controversy that has developed in the diocese of Charlotte... Read more

  Posted on 09 April 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Charlotte Catholic High School Controversy: More Excerpts from My Letters to...

  

  Okay, if it's not a total bore for those who have been reading this blog for some time now, I think I will offer some more excerpts from my letters to Bishop... Read more

  Posted on 09 April 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• The Brendan Eich Gay Mafia Furor: What's Really Going on Here?

  

  On the weekend, I wrote about how curious the recent volte face of conservatives and their centrist enablers re: employers' sacrosanct rights has been in the... Read more

  Posted on 08 April 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Mary Elizabeth Williams on Sister Jane Dominic Laurel: A Long History of...

  

  Not in the least unrelated to what I have just posted about my dealings with the former bishop of Charlotte as controversy erupts in Charlotte following Sister... Read more

  Posted on 08 April 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Agni Asks If I Go to Church: Another Excerpt from My Letters to the Bishop of...

  

  In a comment here yesterday responding to my posting about the recent uproar in the diocese of Charlotte, North Carolina, Agni asks if I attend a Catholic churc... Read more

  Posted on 08 April 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Charlotte Catholic High School Controversy: "May God Send You Many Outspoken...

  

  With what has just happened in the diocese of Charlotte (I blogged about the controversy Sister Jane Dominic Laurel stirred with prejudice-laden statements abou... Read more

  Posted on 07 April 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY