The following is a statement of Francis DeBernardo, New Ways Ministry’s Executive Director, released on June 26, 2016, in response to Pope Francis’ call for the Church to apologize to groups … Source: Pope Calls for Church to Apologize to…
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Bishops promote “Fortnight for Freedom,” stay silent on Catholic Speaker Ryan’s refusal to allow votes on gun control
“So by their fruits you will know them.” Mt.7:15-20 What conclusion should people in the pews draw from the silence of the bishops as the conspicuously Catholic Speaker of the House, Paul Ryan refuses to allow a vote on…
Tagged with: Democrats sit-in, gun control, NobillNoBreak
Posted in I BLOG, Politics and Religion, Uncategorized, US Bishops
Posted in I BLOG, Politics and Religion, Uncategorized, US Bishops
Guest Post: “Becoming Normal.”
Sermon by Fr. David Gierlach, St. Elizabeth’s Episcopal Church, Honolulu. Reproduced here with permission. 1 Kings 19:1-15a, Psalm 42, Galatians 3:23-29, Luke 8:26-39 Last Sunday brought the tragic news from Orlando, a gunman of Afghan descent murdered 50 people…
Bishop Robert Lynch of Florida Condemns Bigotry towards LGBT people, and Muslims; Calls for Ban on Assault Rifles
Reposted here with permission, some prompt and necessary words in a blogpost by Bishop Robert Lynch of St. Petersburg, Florida. ORLANDO, ORLANDO WE LOVE YOU Today I write with a heavy heart arising from the tragedy which occurred in the…
Tagged with: Bishop Robert Lynch, Florida, Orlando, St. Petersburg
Posted in I BLOG, Politics and Religion, Uncategorized, US Bishops
Posted in I BLOG, Politics and Religion, Uncategorized, US Bishops
In Orlando’s Wake, Catholic Ministry Calls on Church Leaders to Condemn Anti-LGBT Violence
Originally posted on Bondings 2.0:
The following is a statement of Francis DeBernardo, New Ways Ministry’s Executive Director, released on June 12, 2016, in response to the mass shooting at a gay and lesbian nightclub in Orlando, Florida, earlier that day.…
A Woman Leads: US Politics 2016
There is no shortage of men in power. No shortage of men who are ready to issue warnings and threaten punishment for straying from the party line. No shortage of men ready to hold forth in front of cameras. And…
A resource for the election season! From the US Bishops!
Wow! The bishops have finally been moved to speak out, and possibly help Catholics deal with the poisonous rhetoric from the GOP stable of once aspiring Presidential hopefuls, and their now firmly established presumptive nominee. An electronic flyer has just…
Tagged with: Christian voters, election resource, Trump, US Bishops
Posted in I BLOG, Politics and Religion, Uncategorized, US Bishops
Posted in I BLOG, Politics and Religion, Uncategorized, US Bishops
Bernie Sanders on Poverty
Bernie Sanders, candidate for President, says what the United States bishops should be proclaiming from every pulpit; what they should be saying at every society dinner they attend, every TV appearance they make, every instruction they send to clergy and…
Tagged with: Bernie Sanders, Poverty in the U.S.
Posted in I BLOG, Politics and Religion, Uncategorized, US Bishops
Posted in I BLOG, Politics and Religion, Uncategorized, US Bishops
Daniel Berrigan S.J. An Ambition to Be Useless
“I wanted to be useless/As life itself; so/I told the president so/and told the pope so/and told the police so.” “Ambition,” Daniel Berrigan. And the Risen Bread: Selected Poems 1957-1997. Fordham University Press. 1998. “It’s been a very difficult question…
Tagged with: Daniel Berrigan
Posted in Catholic Social Doctrine, Catholics and Culture, I BLOG, Justice, Uncategorized
Posted in Catholic Social Doctrine, Catholics and Culture, I BLOG, Justice, Uncategorized
Easter, West and East by Laura Shannon
Originally posted on Feminism and Religion:
Western Easter has come and gone, and I missed it this year, by design. I went to Athens for the weekend, where Easter this year won’t come until May 1. In the Greek Orthodox Church,…
Tagged with: Easter, Greece, Laura Shannon, refugees, Resurrection
Posted in Easter, I BLOG, Uncategorized
Posted in Easter, I BLOG, Uncategorized
Dawn Morais 