William Lindsey

LATEST ARTICLES ( 3425 )

• As Catholic Dioceses Release Lists of Priests Credibly Accused of Abuse of...

  

  As more and more U.S. Catholic dioceses — but not the diocese of Charlotte, North Carolina, which remains "one of the least transparent" dioceses in the nation ... Read more

  Posted on 06 February 2019 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Covington Catholic Pro-Life MAGA Boys: A Canadian Catholic Educator's Perspective

  

  Before we let the discussion of the Covington Catholic pro-life MAGA boys recede forever as new brouhahas (the latest in the U.S. Read more

  Posted on 04 February 2019 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Video Captures White Young Women Mocking Native People in New Mexico: People Mak...

  

  Sami Edge:"It's obviously apparent that the behavior of the Covington MAGA boys created a trend where young people — especially privileged, non-Native [young... Read more

  Posted on 01 February 2019 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Janelle Wong on How We Are All Evangelicals Now: "Evangelicals Embody U.S. Racia...

  

  As I reminded us yesterday, it's not just white evangelicals: white U.S. Christians — of all confessional stripes, right and left, across the board — are chiefl... Read more

  Posted on 31 January 2019 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• James Cone, Said I Wasn't Gonna Tell Nobody, on What It Is to Be Black in Americ...

  

  Here is more from James Cone's book Said I Wasn't Gonna Tell Nobody (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 2018) which glosses what I posted earlier today about the conversatio... Read more

  Posted on 30 January 2019 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Yes, More on Catholic MAGA Boys: Conversation White Americans (& Especially Whit...

  

  Nothing has changed, essentially, since Robert P. Jones offered us the analysis of our serious cultural-political-religious crisis in 2016 in the passages... Read more

  Posted on 30 January 2019 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Some Final Takeaways from the Covington Catholic Story: "Conservatives Have...

  

  The Twitter gods and social media gurus and faux-liberal nannies have decreed that We Shall No Longer Talk of Covington Catholic. Since I have been out of... Read more

  Posted on 24 January 2019 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Apologies for Being Behind in Responding to Comments Here

  My apologies to all of you good readers who have left comments here in the past several days, to which I have failed to respond. Read more

  Posted on 21 January 2019 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Have Watched Additional Footage of Covington Catholic Boys, and People Are Right...

  Are we really going to debate whether those kids shouting ‘build the wall!’ in the face of a Native American while attending the March for Life in MAGA hats wer... Read more

  Posted on 21 January 2019 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Viral Video of KY Catholic Teen "Pro-Life" Marchers Taunting Native American...

  Imagine if Catholic schools made racism and not abortion the centerpiece of their moral education.— Natalia Imperatori (@nimperatori) January 19,... Read more

  Posted on 20 January 2019 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Kentucky Catholic Students at Pro-Life March Mock Native Americans; Michael...

  After Michael Sean Winters shook his finger at liberal Catholics for being insufficiently pro-life as the March for Life was staged, will he now address the... Read more

  Posted on 19 January 2019 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Celebrating Mary Oliver & Asking: Do We Want to Be the Kind of People Celebratin...

  

  That's the big question, the one the world throws at you each morning, "Here you are, alive. Would you like to make a comment?" ~ Mary Oliver, Long Life... Read more

  Posted on 18 January 2019 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• On McCloskey's & Opus Dei's "Outsize Impact on Policy & Politics," & Attempt of...

  

  In the statement by Terry Mattingly to which I linked yesterday, a statement which argues that the media have been much more focused on the story of Opus Dei... Read more

  Posted on 17 January 2019 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• McCarrick Story Continues to Chug Along, While McCloskey Story Loses Steam: Why?

  Number of articles Religion News Service has posted featuring the McCarrick story: at least 20, by my count.Number of RNS articles featuring the McCloskey story... Read more

  Posted on 16 January 2019 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Two More Valuable Resources Re: Opus Dei: Betty Clermont's and Penny Lernoux's...

  

  I'd like to add two valuable resources to the primer of books and articles about Opus Dei I posted this past weekend. That primer was not intended by any means... Read more

  Posted on 16 January 2019 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• This Has Happened: What to Make of Recent Chain of Events from Opus Dei-McCloske...

  So this has happened:1. Jan. 7: Washington Post breaks Opus Dei-McCloskey story.2. Jan. 8: Cardinal Burke mounts an attack on Pope Francis on German t.v., sayin... Read more

  Posted on 14 January 2019 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Front Page News Today in Charlotte, North Carolina: "PRIESTS ACCUSED OF SEX ABUS...

  

  On the front page of today's Charlotte Observer: a headline reading, "PRIESTS ACCUSED OF SEX ABUSE," with a notice that the Catholic diocese of Charlotte,... Read more

  Posted on 13 January 2019 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Opus Dei, Its Wealth, Power, and Widespread Hidden Influence: A Primer of...

  

  I'd like to propose the following — an intiution of mine, rather than a proven conclusion:A primary reason the John McCloskey story was kept under wraps for so... Read more

  Posted on 12 January 2019 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• News Continues to Break Re: McCloskey + Opus Dei Story: "Catholic Right … Does...

  The Opus Dei-Rev C John McCloskey story is turning into an emblem for the covering-up of clergy sex misconduct https://t.co/Ky3GApWNUi— Michelle Boorstein... Read more

  Posted on 11 January 2019 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Catholics Who Have No Problem with a President Boasting About Grabbing Women's...

  Isn't it interesting that the same set of Catholics who have no problem with a president boasting about how he likes to grab women's genitals, or with a... Read more

  Posted on 09 January 2019 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY