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From the great Joanne McPortland: The thing is, we sin when we put priests on pedestals and idolize them. I think that’s what Jesus cautioned against when he told us to call no man father. Yes, priests are due the respect of their office—as is every person made in God’s image. But holiness is not [...]
I noticed this the other day, and wondered when she had started blogging. I presume it was just in time for the conventions. Politico notes: Out the gate, Noonan’s actually proven to have a great knack for the medium — mix of opinion and reporting, first-person informal, relatively frequent. Not bad for a 61-year-old veteran [...]
There’s a rare interview in the National Catholic Register with the New York Times’ youngest columnist, Ross Douthat, who also happens to be a devoted Catholic. Among other things, he talks about Paul Ryan and Cardinal Dolan: Rep. Paul Ryan’s budget proposal has generated controversy about his integrity as a Catholic, with bishops and lay [...]
This video, posted over a week ago—showing what happened to a Catholic priest who prayed outside a Chick-fil-—has generated a lot of heat. And now Elizabeth Scalia sheds some light: It is difficult to feel sympathy for Father O’Reilly; his actions toward the gay activists were intentionally provocative, which rendered his mumbles about “tolerance” insupportable. [...]
With tomorrow marking the Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, one of the great feasts in the Christian calendar, a writer at L’Osservatore Romano looks at one depiction of this event in iconography: In the Byzantine tradition the first great celebration in the liturgical cycle is the Nativity of the Mother of [...]
That’s the eye-catching headline of the latest blog post by one of Patheos’ newest writers, Rebecca Hamilton. She’ll be hanging her hat over at a new blog called “Public Catholic,” devoting her time and attention to politics. She knows whereof she speaks: Rebecca is in the Oklahoma House of Representatives and is (brace yourselves) a [...]
Over at Catholic Lane you will find this astonishing confession by Anthony Schefter, titled “Catholic But Mentally Ill.” Here is a life most of us can’t imagine. (And thanks, Mark Shea, for the tip!) A snip: Apart from my Catholic faith and my relationship with Jesus I am certain I would be dead. It’s as [...]
This eye-roll-inducing item comes from my blog neighbor Joanne McPortland, who is much more charitable and forgiving than I am: “Sikhism is a religion that originated about 500 years ago in Italy [sic].” ~ CBS This Morning reporter on the shootings at a Wisconsin Sikh temple I’ve been bemoaning the media’s inability to get Catholicism right for a [...]
“The word ‘authority’ comes from the Latin ‘augere’ (to grow). All authority, whether it be civil, paternal, religious or community is intended to help people grow towards greater freedom, justice and truth. Often, however, it is used for honor, power, privilege and positive self-image of those who exercise it. By stooping down to wash the [...]
From Lutheran preacher and my Patheos blog neighbor Nadia Bolz-Weber. This is one of those times when I sat there and said to myself, in awe and wonder and envy, “Man, I wish I’d written that.” A snip: I had gone to New Orleans with an idea for a sermon on Mary Magdalen – a [...]
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