Posts tagged "catholic church"
A Questionable Purpose, A Test of Words
Part of The Revealer’s series on the John Jay report, “The Causes and Context of Sexual Abuse of Minors by Catholic Priests in the United States, 1950-2010.”
by Jack Downey
Last month, a team of researchers from the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, led by Dr. Karen Terry, published a 150-page report entitled
The Church Needs Men
It's no secret there's a short supply of Catholic priests in the US, so when we heard that the shortage was now forcing churches to consolidate, we put our heads together to come up with some options for the Catholic Church. While we admit that numbers 1 and 2 would almost completely solve the...
Give Us This Day Our Daily Links
A small parade was held in Philadelphia this weekend, made up of area Muslims. Their objective was to counter media representation of Muslims as terrorists and to bring awareness to the fact that about two thirds of Muslims in American cities are black. There are about 100 mosques in the Philly area. || A...
Misinterpreting the Legacy of the 1960s
Part of The Revealer’s series on the John Jay report, The Causes and Context of Sexual Abuse of Minors by Catholic Priests in the United States, 1950-2010.
by Scott Korb
For a good part of the past four years, I met every other week with a former Ursuline nun – let’s call her “Josefa” – to talk...
Failure to Deliver:
Predictions that did not predict and a case-closing report that did not close the case
Part of The Revealer's series on the John Jay report, The Causes and Context of Sexual Abuse of Minors by Catholic Priests in the United States, 1950-2010.
by Elizabeth Castelli
Last week, two things did not happen. The Rapture did not take place on May 21, 2011, despite the fervent prognostications of a retired engineer-turned-Christian broadcaster...
Report on Sex Abuse in the Roman Catholic Church
With commentary from FRANCES KISSLING, AMANDA MARCOTTE, ELIZABETH CASTELLI, SCOTT KORB, MARY VALLE, PETER BEBERGAL, JACK DOWNEY
Return of the Exorcist
Writes Daniel Burke about the increase of exorcists in the U.S. Catholic Church at U.S. Catholic, "there are more exorcists in the United States now than at any other time in modern history, according to experts. More than 100 bishops and priests met in Baltimore last November to recruit dozens more." He continues:
As...
Upgrading to Homos
The Catholic League's president, Bill Donohue, has written all of us a long letter which features in a full page ad in today's New York Times. Criticism of the church is outlandishly overblown, he argues, citing Philip Jenkins, a 2004 John Jay study (funded by the USCCB), and Robert S. Bennett of the...
Cleaning the Catholic House of Dissent
Last week, Revealer contributor Jo Piazza sent us a press release that reminds us how the RCC conducts its discipline. Maryknoll Superior General, Edward M. Dougherty, has focused the church's disapproval on Father Roy Bourgeois for his "public support of women's ordination." Bourgeois was given 15 days to recant that support, or face...
God’s Labor in Wisconsin
Becky Garrison (who writes for The Revealer sometimes) looks at the outspokenness of a Wisconsin Catholic Bishop regarding the rights of workers there. She writes at The Guardian:
While the US Catholic church traditionally sides with Republican interests in promoting a pro-life agenda, the archdiocese of Milwaukee threw its support behind the unions...
The Vatican Sees Opportunity with Wiccans
The UK’s Daily Mail reports that a Catholic publisher has put out a new book on how to convert Wiccans to Catholocism: The guide, published yesterday by the Catholic Truth Society, the UK publishers to the Holy See, was written by Elizabeth Dodd, a former Oxford Wiccan who converted to the Catholic faith. She said...
