From Catholic for Choice, an excellent 45 minute film on Catholics and Sexual Morality. Watch it at http://catholicsforchoice.org/secrethistory.asp “The Secret History of Sex, Choice and Catholics” features interviews with leading experts in the fields of theology, philosophy and ethics…
Monthly Archives: December 2012
A Catholic OBLIGATION to Discuss Women’s Ordination
We are all too familiar with the Vatican insistence that not only is women’s ordination impossible, but that even discussion of the subject is not permitted. Others disagree. In a hard-hitting editorial, the National Catholic Reporter argues strongly that not…
Church Reform: Adapting Hans Kung’s 2010 Letter to Bishops
In the British “Call to Action” Google group, Chris McDonnell posted a useful contribution under the heading “Direction and Purpose“, in which he referred to Hans Kung’s 2010 open letter to the bishops, and asked “Does this help us forward?”. This was…
Women’s Ordination in the Catholic Church: A Way forward?
The recent disappointment over the failure of the Church of England Synod finally to approve the ordination of woman bishops has brought the matter under a political spotlight, with suggestions that parliament should remove the exemption of the CoE from…
From Bondings 2.0: “Prayers for World AIDS Day”
Today is World AIDS Day. We pause to remember the effect that this pandemic has had on our world. We recall that in the early days of the pandemic, when gay men were disproportionately affected by the syndrome, that the…
