Bishops Move to Excommunicate the Prez.

Last updated on: November 6, 2024 at 4:38 pm By Rebecca Hamilton

The Catholic bishops voted to move ahead with a document that could lead to excommunicating pro choice Catholic politicians, including President Biden. As a matter of principle, I have no objection to withholding communion from pro abortion politicians, assuming that it is done based on incontrovertible evidence that this is in fact where they stand, and that it is prefaced with a long period of private and compassionate discussion and attempts to deal with their viewpoint in better ways. This... Read more

God Can Say Enough.

Last updated on: June 19, 2021 at 7:52 am By Rebecca Hamilton

Simon was a sorcerer, a rather famous and successful sorcerer. Evidently, Simon was also at heart an honest man. When he encountered St Philip, preaching the Gospel and doing great works in Jesus’ name, Simon didn’t, as the idol maker for the goddess Diana later did to St Paul, rile up a crowd and try to get Philip killed. What Simon did instead, was convert. But Simon’s conversion was much like yours and mine. It was incomplete and lacking in... Read more

Rapists and Sex Abusers Don’t Speak for God.

Last updated on: November 7, 2024 at 6:40 am By Rebecca Hamilton

Clergy sex abuse scandals are not limited to Catholic priests, bishops and cardinals. The Southern Baptists have been grappling — and failing to deal with — their own clergy sex abuse. I can attest from my time in several denominations through the years that the problem is a real and present danger in all of them. It would be simple to take the militant atheist view and claim that religion itself, or maybe just Christianity, is the cause of the... Read more

Pope Francis’ Prayer Intention for June

Last updated on: November 7, 2024 at 6:51 am By Rebecca Hamilton

Pope Francis is worried that so many young people are avoiding marriage, and rightfully so. There are many reasons for this, quite a number of them having to do with economics, while other reasons are more cultural and social. Pope Francis’ prayer intention for June is directed specifically at this reluctance of young people to choose the home/life/community building commitment of Holy Matrimony. Is it true, what some people say—that young people don’t want to get married, especially during these... Read more

Render Unto to Ceasar … What Did Jesus Teach About Church and State?

Last updated on: June 15, 2021 at 2:20 pm By Rebecca Hamilton

“Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s.” Jesus Christ Jesus said quite a lot about politics, but religious leaders tend to ignore all of it. I think they ignore it is because it doesn’t fit with the fact that, however much religious leaders may try to deify themselves, they are just fallen human beings, living in a fallen world. As such, they are prey to all the same desires, ambitions and... Read more

The Catholic Bishops and Sexual Sin

Last updated on: November 7, 2024 at 7:03 am By Rebecca Hamilton

When you are dealing with an international organization that has a proven record of corruption that runs from the top to the bottom of the organization and has continued for decades in every organizational location around the globe, you are not dealing with an organization with a few corrupt individuals. You are dealing with a corrupt organization. Rebecca Hamilton The “organization” I’m talking about is the Catholic Church, and the corruption is the generational, endemic, world-wide, systematically supported, aided, abetted... Read more

McCarrick Report: It’s Not a Few Bad Priests. The Church Itself is Corrupt.

Last updated on: June 28, 2021 at 8:22 am By Rebecca Hamilton

The McCarrick Report said what we already knew. The Catholic Church is guilty of systemic, pervasive, from-the-pope-down enabling, supporting, and yes, participating in, sexual abuse, rape, sodomy, of every description. The victims are anybody and everybody. Priests, bishops and cardinals have raped, abused and sodomized everybody they come into contact with, including very young children, teens, seminarians, nuns, people who go to them for counseling and each other. If it’s got a pulse, there’s a guy wearing a collar who... Read more

I Believe What the Church Teaches.

Last updated on: November 7, 2024 at 3:02 pm By Rebecca Hamilton

“I believe in God, the Father Almighty, Creator of Heaven and earth; and in Jesus Christ, His only Son Our Lord, Who was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died, and was buried. He descended into Hell; the third day He rose again from the dead; He ascended into Heaven, and sits at the right hand of God, the Father almighty; from thence He shall come to judge the living and the dead. I believe in the Holy Spirit,... Read more

Do Not Deny Yourself the Eucharist

Last updated on: November 7, 2024 at 3:45 pm By Rebecca Hamilton

Misogyny is a terrible sin. The sin of clerical misogyny is the sin of the priesthood. It is, in particular, the bishops’ sin. I know quite a number of Catholic women who are suffering painful alienation from their Church because of the sin of misogyny which is committed against them and against all women by the bishops and by various priests. The sin of misogyny is a generational evil that goes back long before the beginning of the Church. It... Read more

The Church and Misogyny

Last updated on: November 7, 2024 at 3:47 pm By Rebecca Hamilton

When I was in office, I helped organize a Day of Prayer for an End to Violence Against women. Several groups, including Catholic Charities of Oklahoma, participated in this. My bishop, Archbishop Beltran, stepped right up to participate. We got the leaders of all the organized denominations in Oklahoma to come to the capitol for a lunch and sign a pledge against violence against women. Archbishop Beltran authored a pastoral letter on the human rights of women. I have the... Read more