William Lindsey

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• Leonardo Boff and Robert McClory on Pope Francis as Franciscan Reformer and...

  

  More from Leonardo Boff on the parallels between Pope Francis and Francis of Assisi, at Boff's blog site: Boff thinks that, to understand what Pope Francis is... Read more

  Posted on 05 April 2013 RELIGION, SOCIETY

• In News: Morality of Taxation, Dan Savage on Supremes and Gay Marriage, Women's...

  

  As the work week ends, a miscellany of items that have caught my attention in this week's news, on a variety of subjects:In my home state, a group of pastors... Read more

  Posted on 05 April 2013 RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Quote for the Day: "Pastors Should Smell Like Sheep"

  

  I just cited this passage in what I posted a moment ago about Cardinal Dolan and the U.S. Catholic bishops' response to gay and lesbian Catholics:He's [i.e. Read more

  Posted on 04 April 2013 RELIGION, SOCIETY

• More Commentary on Cardinal Dolan's Easter Musings: Dolan Still Unwilling to...

  

  And still more commentary on the comments of Cardinal Dolan (and see here and here), president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, on Easter Sunday abou... Read more

  Posted on 04 April 2013 RELIGION, SOCIETY

• A Reader Writes: How Rare Should Abortion Be?

  

  In the discussion following this recent posting, Mark has asked me how rare abortion ought to be. This question was in response to my statement that, in my view... Read more

  Posted on 04 April 2013 RELIGION, SOCIETY

• A Reader Writes: There Is an Opportunity Worth Grasping with Cardinal Dolan's...

  

  In a comment yesterday in response to my second posting about Cardinal Dolan's Easter remarks re: Catholic pastoral outreach to LGBT Catholics, Terry Weldon of... Read more

  Posted on 03 April 2013 RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Tom Tomorrow on Argument for "Traditional" Marriage: "Do You, Penis, Take This...

  

  (Click to enlarge.)Tom Tomorrow at The Nation on the embarrassingly crude pole-and-hole argument that has become the centerpiece of arguments against same-sex... Read more

  Posted on 03 April 2013 RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Gay Parenting and the Novelty of Cell Phones: A Response to Justice Alito from a...

  

  In a new Religion Dispatches essay, Sikivu Hutchinson makes a point I've also been pondering in light of Justice Alito's statement last week that same-sex... Read more

  Posted on 03 April 2013 RELIGION, SOCIETY

• John Corvino on What's Wrong with Homosexuality?

  More good material from Dan Savage's site: Savage has been uploading a series of videos that ethicist John Corvino is releasing on YouTube, dealing with common... Read more

  Posted on 02 April 2013 RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Responses to Cardinal Dolan on What Gay Folks Are Entitled To: Truth Wins Out an...

  I've seen several good statements about the comments Cardinal Dolan made on Easter day regarding pastoral treatment of LGBT human beings by the Catholic... Read more

  Posted on 02 April 2013 RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Roe v. Wade and False Backlash Narratives About Marriage Equality: Recent...

  

  Jill Filipovic and Nancy Cohen remember what happened as Roe v. Wade came down pretty much as I remember it. Both point out that, at the time the Supreme Court... Read more

  Posted on 01 April 2013 RELIGION, SOCIETY

• U.S. Catholic Bishops' President: Gays Entitled to Friendship, But . . . .

  

  Aw, isn't this nice? As news sites are reporting all over the place this morning, yesterday the leader of the U.S. Catholic bishops, His Eminence Timothy... Read more

  Posted on 01 April 2013 RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Change Begins with the Feet and Not the Head: Theologians Responding to Pope...

  

  Two complementary statements this morning from theologians reflecting on the significance of the new papal style:Here's Leonardo Boff on the pope who pays his... Read more

  Posted on 01 April 2013 RELIGION, SOCIETY

• "The Sight of Fossilized Light in a Growing Universe": Rachel Maddow's...

  TVisit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economyIn her reflection on what happened in this historic week in the U.S. Read more

  Posted on 31 March 2013 RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Lent, Easter, Jesus and the Victims of History: A Meditation

  

  Lent ends today, and it's my 63rd birthday, and I find myself in much the same place in which I was as my 60th birthday approached--and as I remembered my... Read more

  Posted on 30 March 2013 RELIGION, SOCIETY

• A Reader Writes: What's This Foot Washing All About, Anyway (and Is There a Red...

  

  In response to my posting earlier today about Pope Francis's choice to include women among those whose feet he washed in the Holy Thursday liturgy yesterday, a... Read more

  Posted on 30 March 2013 RELIGION, SOCIETY

• For Good Friday Meditation: Odetta Singing "Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless...

  This old African-American spiritual has always seemed to me a quintessential Good Friday song. The unfathomable pain of mothers kept in bondage, whose children... Read more

  Posted on 29 March 2013 RELIGION, SOCIETY

• In the News: Debates About Rights Are About People, More on What-about-Children?...

  (As the day goes on): sorry for the hiatus in my blogging today. As my previous post indicated, I intended to note some more newsworthy (to me, that is, and I... Read more

  Posted on 29 March 2013 RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Washing Women's Feet: New Pope Captures Media Attention (and Infuriates...

  

  I intended this Good Friday to write about something that seems really substantial (to me, at least). Meanwhile, a number of things I've read online this mornin... Read more

  Posted on 29 March 2013 RELIGION, SOCIETY

• "He Took the Form of a Servant": Holy Thursday and Jesus's Gender Transgression

  

  I've written about this before (and here), but it bears repeating: when Jesus knelt to wash the feet of his followers at the Last Supper, he quite specifically... Read more

  Posted on 28 March 2013 RELIGION, SOCIETY