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STRATEGIES OF NUNS AND NONES TO ENGAGE THE RELIGIOUSLY DISAFFILIATED |
One of the most creative strategies to engage the religiously disaffected is the Nuns and Nones movement, a national organization that includes several hundred Catholic sisters and younger nones. The theology underlying these efforts by Catholic sisters is one of accompaniment, not proselytization. |
THE SEXIST CHURCH I LOVE |
When the church has little time for women’s presence, when the church takes little notice of women’s questions, when the church holds little respect for women’s insights, when the church devotes itself to preaching the gospel of equality for women but preserves a male theology and a male system, staying in the church demands a purpose far beyond ourselves. |
ARE THEY REALLY CATHOLIC?: FOUR NEW MODELS OF CATHOLIC IDENTITY |
Contemporary discourse on Catholic identity appears incommensurable, largely because of an intransigent reliance on a singular model that dictates what Catholic identity must mean and how it is presented. To rely on a single model as the standard for Catholic identity is to content oneself with a half truth. |
“WE ARE A NATION OF IMMIGRANTS” — CARDINAL DOLAN ECHOES POPE LEO XIV, AND MAGA ERUPTS |
The retired New York cardinal invoked Jesus and the Statue of Liberty in a video this week. Within hours, replies branded him a traitor-priest out of the nativist right’s favorite novel. When even Timothy Dolan has become a target, the administration is running out of Catholics willing to bless its war on the stranger. |
For traditionalist Catholics who worship at churches affiliated with the breakaway Society of St. Pius X, Sunday Mass now comes with an extraordinary question.
Their priests and bishops have been excommunicated after the fringe movement on the Catholic right committed what the Vatican considers one of the faith’s gravest crimes: rupturing church unity by consecrating bishops without the pope’s consent. The Vatican says Catholics should stop going to the breakaway group’s worship services and activities, and that some sacraments administered by the society’s priests are illicit and invalid.
In his video review of Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey,” the Canadian artist and philosopher of myth Jonathan Pageau expressed what a lot of us who are committed to the old books have been feeling for over a year: a trepidation that our favorite director might fail to capture the magic of our favorite book (well, second-favorite for me). After disasters like “Troy,” I had sworn off all Hollywood adaptations of ancient classics. If you spend hours every day, every week, for years just trying to get to the point where you can hear a little bit of the magic of the literature of the deep past, then you worry about those who might try to turn your beloved stories into old-fashioned summer action flicks and thus “taint” them, to use Pageau’s term.
