One of my regrets at this site is that I never have the time (and sometimes the inclination) to follow through on all the variety of issues that need to be better known and understood, that come to my attention. What appears on site is just a fraction of what I am seeing and thinking about. There is much more that I see and think about, and some that gets drafted but never posted.

One way to disseminate more of this information is simply to share links, without comment. One of my readers sends me a regular avalanche of links to worthwhile news stories. A few of these I expand on, many more I read and ignore. It now seems to me that this is a waste of a useful resource. If I am unable to prepare a sensible commentary on these stories and reports, there is still value in simply sharing the links, so that you too may get the benefit of Jim’s industry in gathering and sharing them.

Here are Jim’s links for just the past few days, together with the descriptions he placed in his email headers:

• Homophobic? Maybe You’re Gay (New York Times)
• We Are All Nuns (New York Times)
• Bishops Play Church Queens as Pawns (New York Times)
• THE ARTICLE’S TITLE IS SLIGHTLY MISLEADING: Austria: What happens when a bishop wants to retire (Vatican Insider)
• Treatment of Gay and Lesbian Persons: Status Quo vs. Prophetic Activity (Vox Nova)
• CHRIS MATTHEWS INTERVIEW JAMES SALT & SR. SIMONE CAMPBELL RE: PAUL RYAN’S BUDGET’S “CATHOLIC” UNDERPINNING (MSNBC Hardball - video)
• REMEMBER THIS? (Youtube, Video)
• 60 Minutes 8/27/06 - Gay or Straight - Part 1 of 3
• 60 Minutes 8/27/06 - Gay or Straight - Part 2 of 3
• 60 Minutes 8/27/06 - Gay or Straight - Part 3 of 3
• IT’S ALREADY FULL OF SECTS: OPUS DEI, LEGIONARIES OF CHRIST, CARDINAL NEWMAN FDN, THE ORNERYARIATE, ALL OF THOSE GROUPS WITH LATIN NAMES, AD NAUSEUM Is Catholicism becoming a Sect?
• OVERHAUL??? HOW ABOUT INTERFERENCE! Notes on the LCWR overhaul
• WHEN THESE PEOPLE START TO BE THIS CRITICAL, YOU KNOW THINGS HAVE GONE FROM BAD TO VERY BAD TO WORSE. Listen to the People (The Tablet)
• EVERY ONCE IN AWHILE GOOD THINGS DO HAPPEN Tough-minded Cleveland woman fights her Catholic bishop, and wins (Religion News)
• What sisters mean to me (James Martin, Washington Post)
• WISDOM — OR DESPERATION? Taking Their Dreams, but Not the Usual Ones, to Broadway (New York Times)
• Vatican laments Irish dissent, silences priests (NCR Online)
• The Vatican and the LCWR (NCR Online)