We are all seared by the clerical sex abuse scandal, but it is necessary to counter exaggerations and extrapolations. When the SNAP folk broadcast the idea that 100,000 US children were raped by Catho
"There is no solid scientific-biological foundation for homosexuality as an identity." Nor is there for "male" or "female" as an "identity" in the relevant sense. Social constructionists say that one
#1 The most scandalous aspect of the Catholic clergy sex abuse scandal was not the fact of clerical sex abuse but the fact of hierarchical concealment of that abuse, to the endangerment of children
In order to establish whether an hierarchical structure or mandatory celibacy had any correlation with any incidence of sex abuse of minors and children, you would have to show that there is a lower o
Seamus, it seems the one point that you made at the beginning of this piece was lost in your final observation. “Life is beautiful, extremely beautiful. And when you are old, you appreciate it more
#13 "The biggest problem facing the Church is the number of members who are not adequately evangelised."
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'Adequate evangelisation'? Is there a 'process' for this? If so, what is it (briefly!)?
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Joe at 14: The problem with applying "social constructionism" to the male-female distinction is that such attempts can be immediately falsified by direct empirical-biological observation. There is n
Those acquainted with the ongoing work of the Public Religions Research Institute in the United States will find little new in the outcomes of the Vatican exercise. The Japanese report is helpful in
Billy fulton @13 Pope Francis has identified self-referentialism as the greatest threat to the life of church. So here we go again, back in the opposite direction, circling the wagons, if that`s possi
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