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November 2019

November 05, 2019

Drag Queens, Liberalism, and Integralists – Oh My!

Ask yourself, would you want most of today’s bishops and priests having some oversight over...

November 04, 2019

Is There A Fundamental Flaw In the Institutional Church’s Approach To Sex Ethics?

It is notable that while the Church has often been on the forefront in issues...

October 2019

October 29, 2019

Is The Ban On Ordination of Women Based On A Heresy?

Are women made in the image of Christ or not? If not, has the whole...

October 27, 2019

Church As Empire? This Is Not the Catholicism I Signed Up For

But what I am seeing right now is a movement in Catholicism to make it...

October 22, 2019

Ecological Atonement, Labor as Spirituality

There’s a certain irony in the fact that our unrestrained domination, on the basis of...

October 14, 2019

The Catholic Imagination, the Amazon Synod, and the Problem of Colonization

We are missing out. We are losing the opportunity to learn from Catholic artists who...

October 06, 2019

Shaking The Dust From My Shoes: A Survivor’s Testimony

My faith became intrinsically interwoven with Fr Sam. To reject him was to reject God....

October 04, 2019

Lost In Translation: How Christians Frequently Misunderstand Judaism

How do we find unity? We try our best to love one another and engage...

October 02, 2019

So, What If Abortion Really Is Driven By White Supremacy?

If they really believe racism is behind abortion, and really want to stop it -...

September 2019

September 30, 2019

On Judging The Level of a Civilization on How It Treats Women

We speak often of “rape culture” and assume this refers to frat houses, to football...

September 21, 2019

Religious Leaders Keep Finding Demons Everywhere, While Ignoring Actual Evil

Writing for audiences both inside and outside of religious circles keeps me attuned to how...

September 17, 2019

Why the Jews? A Reflection on Yad Vashem

Christians added to the stock xenophobia a religious hatred perhaps born in the moment of...

September 11, 2019

Yes, Catholic Women Should Preach. But Why Is This So Frightening?

Why is it so important for them to keep us silent? What do they have...

September 08, 2019

A Message to Bishop Rhoades: Take Notice, and Oppose Anti-Semitism

it grieves me to write this letter at the dawn of the 21st century. This...

September 07, 2019

To Reform the Church, We Must Rethink, Repair, or Replace Its Failed Institutions

I’m saying that the Catholic church needs to rethink the institutions it has relied on,...

August 2019

August 26, 2019

Anti-Semitism is On the Rise. Will You Stand In Solidarity With the Jews?

Please understand: those of you who are white, non-Jewish, not presently targets of white supremacist...

August 18, 2019

My Response to the Men Who Think It’s a Sin For Women To Work Outside the Home

So here's what I have to say, ultimately, to the Twitter trad-bros who are trying...

August 13, 2019

The Right Wing Is Dominant – And Real Courage Means Standing Against It

This is not a culture in which the radical left, or even a moderate left,...

August 09, 2019

Seven Steps Towards Ending Clericalism

This is the seventh in the "Reform" series by guest writer William M. Shea Answers...

August 04, 2019

Gun Owners Need To Be At the Forefront Of Calling For Gun Safety Legislation

If you, as a gun owner, are opposing proposed legislation that would ensure greater public...

August 02, 2019

The Model Needed For Reform: Not Another Protestant Reformation

The hierarchism and clericalism that characterize the Roman Catholic Church ( and other Christian churches!...

July 2019

July 29, 2019

What If Everyone Could Hold a Migrant Child? Reflections on Volunteering at the Border

Hold your own child or grandchild close for a moment and imagine how you would...

July 25, 2019

Without Ending Clericalism, There Can Be No True Reform

Every reform movement in the Church has been assimilated by the clerical culture with varying...

July 20, 2019

Abandoning the Church’s Corrupt Leadership – But Not Abandoning the Church

Remember: Judas was an apostle and a bishop according to their own interpretation of the...

July 13, 2019

As Canonization of Fulton Sheen Proceeds, Should the Faithful Be Concerned About a Buried Accusation? UPDATED

As long as this accusation goes uninvestigated, as long as the hierarchy continues to ignore...

July 08, 2019

An Open Letter to Franciscan University of Steubenville

None of the men who failed me are being held accountable. Most are still alive...

July 05, 2019

Is Reform Possible, Within the Current Institutional Structure of the Church?

If the conclusion that the church needs restructuring cannot not be warranted, it seems to...

June 2019

June 30, 2019

It’s Not the Church That Has Let Me Down – It’s the Clergy

The church has not let me down but popes and bishops have, too often and...

June 22, 2019

On the Need for Radical Moral Reform of the Clergy

Their leadership has been exposed in the past century and previous centuries as devoid of...

June 18, 2019

Got a Problem With Student Loan Forgiveness? You’re Opposing a Venerable Catholic Tradition

Catholics who wish to take a stand against Senator Warren’s plan are free to do...

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