In the build – up to the conclave, four major polling companies have taken soundings of the responses of American Catholics to the challenges facing the new pontiff, and to some matters of orthodox Catholic doctrine. These surveys were: New York…
Tag Archive for Contraception
A Big Day for Marriage Equality, UK – and for Queer Catholics, Worldwide
Reality is chipping away at Vatican sexual doctrine, as is clearly demonstrated by recent responses by senior Catholic prelates to public debate on gay marriage, and abortion. In the UK, it’s a big day for equal marriage, as the second…
US Episcopal Presiding Bishop, on Gay Clergy And Birth Control
In the Catholic Church, US bishops have been in a froth over health care funding for contraception – even though the overwhelming majority of ordinary Catholics have been practising birth control for decades. In the UK and Australia as well…
Bishop urges change in all church teaching on sexual relationships
Sooner or later, it had to happen. Ordinary Catholics living in the real world have known it for decades, moral theologians know it, priests in Austria, Germany, Belgium and Ireland have been demanding it, and an unknown number of bishops…
How the Bishops’ War on Gay Marriage, Contraception Could Be Good News for the Church
In the UK, it’s gay marriage. In the US, it’s contraception, and communion denial or loss of employment for some individual lesbian or gay Catholics. For the pope, it’s all those who reject the Vatican’s disordered sexual teaching, on contraception…
“Freedom of Religion”: A Non- Christian Response
In the midst of Catholic Bishops’ hysteria over contraception and “religious freedom”, it’s worth considering the perceptions from other faith traditions. At Saira Khan’s femi – blog, Saira shifts the discussion from contraception to abortion (even more of a hot button issue…
US Bishops’ Selective, Simplistic Uproar Over Conscience
All week, I’ve been struggling to find anything sensible to post about the extraordinary brouhaha whipped up by the Catholic bishops over contraception coverage, health care and “religious freedom.” As a non-American, and as I don’t pretend to understand the detail…
US Bishops, Religious Freedom, Health Care: Omnibus Commentary, Part 1
Robert McClory on the Embarrassment the Catholic Bishops Have Become (and How They’ve Gotten There). Robert McClory at National Catholic Reporter writing about the U.S. Catholic bishops and what an embarrassment their campaign for “religious freedom” is for many American…
US Bishops, Religious Freedom, Health Care: Omnibus Commentary, Part 2
Two Pictures, Two Thousand Words: Congressional Hearing on Religious Liberty. As Pema Levy notes at Talking Points Memo today, the picture at the head of the posting is from yesterday’s Congressional hearing about “religious liberty,” and has been circulating all…
US Bishops, Religious Freedom, Health Care: Omnibus Commentary, Part 3
This Just in: USCCB Legal Counsel Anthony Picarello Tells Media Bishops “Will Not Relent”. This just in: right-wing propagandist legal counsel to the U.S. Catholic bishops Anthony Picarello informed reporters today that the U.S. Catholic bishops “will not relent” on their…
