Daily Archives: 8 June 2016

Curia Averted

Robert Mickens describes and assesses reform-in-progress, an assessment of doing (or not doing) rather than just write about it in a document. (In that light, I wonder if I should reconsider the ten years of picking through Church docs here.) … Continue reading

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Spreading The Shame

My facebook feed has been awash with outrage over the Stanford University swimmer who raped an unconscious woman and how the legal system sorted that out in terms of crime and punishment. Lots of commentary, like … the victim’s the … Continue reading

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Amoris Laetitia 62

Jesus is cited in this paragraph: 62. The Synod Fathers noted that Jesus, “in speaking of God’s original plan for man and woman, reaffirmed the indissoluble union between them, even stating that ‘it was for your hardness of heart that … Continue reading

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Alice, Loud and Bright

The young miss has a Johnny Depp thing. I don’t get it, but it’s rare for the three of us to get out to the movies, and Alice Through the Looking Glass was in the neighborhood, so … It was … Continue reading

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