William Lindsey

LATEST ARTICLES ( 3425 )

• Politics and Morality: War on Poor, Angry White Men, Anti-Gay Laws and Logic...

  Paul Krugman thinks that a "war on the poor" is the central and defining issue in American politics today, and that it's fueled by a racial animus that is "the... Read more

  Posted on 01 November 2013 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Men, Women, and Obamacare: HHS Secretary Sibelius Grilled About Requirement...

  

  There has been interesting commentary about the grilling of the U.S. Health and Human Services secretary Kathleen Sibelius this week by the House Energy and... Read more

  Posted on 01 November 2013 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• More on Vatican Directive to Bishops' Conferences to Poll the Faithful, and...

  

  A follow-up to what I posted yesterday about the directive of the Vatican's Synod of Bishops that national bishops' conferences poll lay Catholics about... Read more

  Posted on 01 November 2013 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Hepzibah Responds to My Posting About Ratzinger on "Pastoral Care of Homosexual...

  

  Congregation for Doctrine of the Faith, "On the Pastoral Care of Homosexual Persons" (1986)At his wonderful Hepzibah site, my friend Alan McCornick responds... Read more

  Posted on 31 October 2013 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Bill Tammeus's Open Letter to Pope Francis About Bishop Finn, and More on St....

  

  Bill Tammeus's open letter to Pope Francis at National Catholic Reporter this week is excellent: he writes to Francis as a brother in Christ, stating,Pope... Read more

  Posted on 31 October 2013 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Scary Hallowe'en Reads? Cardinal Ratzinger's "Letter to the Bishops of the...

  

  There's an interesting Hallowe'en thread right now at Commonweal, responding to Dominic Preziosi's question to readers about forgotten, overlooked, or lesser... Read more

  Posted on 31 October 2013 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Cooking to Save the Planet: Tamar Adler's An Everlasting Meal

  

  When I blogged several days ago about our method of shopping weekly and cooking most of the vegetables we buy on the day that we shop and then storing them for... Read more

  Posted on 28 October 2013 SOCIETY

• Religious Right Leaders Note Declining Numbers and Conclude, "People Want God bu...

  

  Last week, I noted Kathy Lynn Grossman's recent article which shows that baptism rates are dropping precipitously in churches in the U.S., and quite specificall... Read more

  Posted on 28 October 2013 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• The Sea Change in Cultural Attitudes Toward Gay Lives: Importance of Telling...

  Last week at the Huffington Post site, Arianna Huffington announced that the Oprah Winfrey Network would air several programs on 27 October about being gay in... Read more

  Posted on 28 October 2013 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Droppings from the Catholic Birdcage: "High Time for Catholic Publications to...

  

  (One of the good droppings): Heidi Schlumpf, commenting at National Catholic Reporter on the lack of women's representation in the leadership structures of... Read more

  Posted on 26 October 2013 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• We Are Church on Bishop Bling-Bling: "Tebartz-van Elst Is Just the Tip of the...

  

  Bishop Franz-Peter Tebartz-van ElstSpeaking on behalf of the German branch of the group We Are Church, Christian Weisner comments on Bishop Bling-Bling,... Read more

  Posted on 26 October 2013 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Former Promoter of Justice for Congregation of the Faith Addresses Canon Law...

  

  Bishop Charles J. SciclunaIn my previous posting, I referred to a report Fr. Thomas Reese has published at National Catholic Reporter regarding Bishop Charles... Read more

  Posted on 26 October 2013 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• More Minnesota: Recent Commentary on Situation in St. Paul-Minneapolis and...

  

  For those continuing to follow the situation in the archdiocese of St. Paul-Minneapolis, a selection of valuable commentary I've read in the past few days:1. Read more

  Posted on 26 October 2013 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Cooking to Save the Planet: Buying Fresh, Cooking What's on Hand, and Ending up...

  

  I haven't done a food posting in a while. I'm not sure why. I suppose at some level I think they're trivial, when so much that's important deserves attention--i... Read more

  Posted on 25 October 2013 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Baptism of Prince George Opens Discussion of Why Baptism Rates Are Dropping:...

  

  The baptism yesterday of Prince George, son of Prince William and Duchess Catherine by Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby, is eliciting much attention... Read more

  Posted on 24 October 2013 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• More (and Final Installment) from Augustine Thompson's Biography of Francis of...

  

  As I've said previously, I'm intrigued by the number of times Augustine Thompson's new biography of Francis of Assisi shows Francis contravening what are now... Read more

  Posted on 24 October 2013 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Religion, Politics, Politics, Religion from Russia and Germany to Minnesota,...

  Rachel: "It may be the dying gasps of a group that calls itself 'national': that's the N- in NomNomNom. But lately, they have to go to Russia to try get any of... Read more

  Posted on 24 October 2013 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• New Ways Ministry Standing with LGBT Employees Serving Catholic Schools and...

  

  The graphic is something New Ways Ministry has uploaded to its Facebook page this afternoon. I'm certainly grateful for the support New Ways and other groups... Read more

  Posted on 23 October 2013 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Droppings from the Catholic Birdcage: "Compare and Contrast" (Tebartz van-Elst...

  

  In response to my posting yesterday about the mess that is the archdiocese of St. Paul-Minneapolis under the pastoral leadership of Archbishop John Nienstedt,... Read more

  Posted on 23 October 2013 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Minnesota Again: Twin Cities Priest Calls on Archbishop Nienstedt to Resign,...

  

  Yesterday, I noted that University of St. Thomas canonist Rev. Reginald Whitt is now vicar for ministerial standards in the archdiocese of St.... Read more

  Posted on 23 October 2013 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY