Cardinal Müller’s crib sheet
Dennis CodayWorking on a tip from “a sharp-eyed correspondent” Religion News Service reporter David Gibson may have unearthed Cardinal Gerhard Müller’s crib sheet: the National Catholic Register and...
View ArticleMarx Hubbard responds to Cardinal Müller's LCWR comments
Barbara Marx Hubbard"I hope [Müller's] focus on this issue will stimulate many, both within the Catholic church and outside it, to deepen human understanding of conscious evolution."
View ArticleTime to face facts: Pope Francis agrees with the doctrinal assessment of LCWR
Jamie MansonGrace on the Margins: The similarities between Francis' quotes and Müller's statement on LCWR show that Müller's talking points are coming directly from the pope.
View ArticleDoes Pope Francis know Cardinal Müller uses the sex abuse playbook against...
Eugene Cullen KennedyBulletins from the Human Side: A sexual predator seeks to dominate another person, to lord it over them. That's what Cardinal Gerhard Müller does to LCWR.
View ArticleCoalition calls for papal apology to U.S. sisters
Brian RoeweNCR Today: A coalition of 16 progressive U.S. Catholic organizations wrote to Pope Francis, asking him to intervene and remove the mandates on LCWR.
View ArticleCardinal seeks a truce in fight between U.S. nuns and Vatican’s doctrinal office
Josephine McKennaReligion News ServiceA senior Vatican official tried to defuse the damaging rift between the Vatican and U.S. nuns after a recent rebuke over obedience and doctrinal differences.
View ArticleU.S. nuns haunted by dead Jesuit: the ghost of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
David GibsonReligion News ServiceAre American nuns paying for the sins of a Jesuit priest who died in the 1950s?It might seem that way, given the ongoing showdown between doctrinal hard-liners in the...
View ArticleEditorial: Disconnect between preaching, practice on LCWR is painful
NCR Editorial StaffWe say: Francis, Catholics across our nation are knocking at your door on behalf of these faithful, Christ-centered women who continued to be maligned by the Vatican.
View ArticleLCWR and Vatican: Can these two ever get together?
Robert McCloryIf the discussions between the Vatican and the Leadership Conference of Women Religious are not to end in disaster, there must be concessions on one or both sides concerning the major...
View ArticleEvolutionary consciousness points to a Trinitarian cosmic order
Michael H. CrosbyAlthough I am a male religious, I too have focused on "conscious evolution." The more I investigate its premises, the more I find it helpful.
View ArticlePriests criticize head of doctrinal congregation for rebuke of LCWR
Catholic News Service"We perceive you to be promoting an entirely different way of dealing with matters of concern within the church," the priests told Pope Francis.
View ArticleScience challenges us to show that our Catholic faith is supremely meaningful
Michael H. CrosbyCommentary: When religious leaders equate religion's ancient mythologies with demonstrable facts, faith will suffer, and religion will become increasingly irrelevant.
View ArticleVatican's doctrinal chief renews criticism of US nuns, says he's no misogynist
David GibsonReligion News Service"Above all we have to clarify that we are not misogynists, we don't want to gobble up a woman a day!" Cardinal Gerhard Müller told L'Osservatore Romano.
View ArticleWhat's eating Catholic women?
Jamie MansonGrace on the Margins: With both Francis and his doctrinal watchdog joking about misogyny, it's unlikely that any substantive treatment of issues related to women is on the horizon.
View ArticleWhen it comes to LCWR, the problem is Müller
Maureen FiedlerHere he goes again! Cardinal Gerhard Müller, head of the Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, has sounded off once more about the shortcomings of the Leadership...
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