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Thoughts and Prayers without Works is Dead

For a documented period of time spanning 70 years, priests ranging from lowly parish priests to Cardinals raped and sexually assaulted boys and girls, men and women and bishops covered it up and protected themselves from punishment for doing it. The blame for this has been placed on laypeople for disregarding Humanae Vitae abortion contraception […]

Statement of Catholic Theologians, Educators, Parishioners, and Lay Leaders On Clergy Sexual Abuse in the United States

You can go here to add your signature. God has shown the strength of God’s arm, and has scattered the proud in their conceit. God has cast down the mighty from their thrones, and has lifted up the lowly. (Lk 1:51-52) Statement of Catholic Theologians, Educators, Parishioners, and Lay Leaders On Clergy Sexual Abuse in […]

Had a painful, but I hope fruitful, conversation about the Scandal with Kristine Franklin

…on Connecting the Dots.  Give it a listen here:

St. Dorothy Day, Now More Than Ever

Ol’ Dot’s canonization is still active, and we have never needed a saint like her more: a woman at once deeply Catholic, deeply counter-cultural, and deeply American in the very best sense of the word.   And she was a tough broad who didn’t hold with the celebrity stuff, as every real saint always does. She […]

Finding Hope in the Crisis

It’s been a helluva week for the American Church. The hideous scabs ripped off the Churches in Pennsylvania are terrible beyond description. And we all know that there is more to come, not only across America, but across the globe. Sure, the crimes are old ones for the most part. The reforms in the Mid-00s […]

The Dominican Sisters of Mary Continue Their Good Work

Assumption

For endless eons, Mother Earth has strained Heavenward. Strange sea life with new-minted eyes bumping weird heads on the surface pane of sky. Crawling fish on stump legs squinted at the sun and, driven by some bone-deep call, pushed on through ages to branch and breed: groping for life, for Word, for a Home-leap to […]

Holy Mary, Mother of God, Deliver Us from Clericalism

All the warnings in the gospels are given, not to Those Unbelievers Over There but to the Church and, above all, to the Church’s ministers.  Consider this saying: “Let your loins be girded and your lamps burning, and be like men who are waiting for their master to come home from the marriage feast, so […]

There’s a reason I regard Trump as a dimestore antichrist

And it is spelled pretty well in this video: Yep. I’m aware of who Reza Aslan is and the crappy work he has done on Jesus. Irrelevant. Stop with the genetic fallacy already. The points he makes here are sound and solid. And they do not, alas, apply only to white Evangelicals. They apply to […]

Gabbed with Tom McDonald about his new project, Weird Catholic, on Connecting the Dots

I love the artwork, by John Herreid:   You can visit his website here. Oodles of fun!