Tag Archives: catholicism
The pope tells priests, “marriage is not an absolute right.”
Tweet Over the weekend during his annual speech Pope Benedict the XVI said that marriage is not an absolute right. Strangely, while this headline makes it sound like he is talking about same-sex partnerships, he wasn’t (or maybe he indirectly was, I don’t know). But, the Pope qualified this statement by shaking a finger at [...]
Also tagged Marriage, marriage equality, pope, Religion Comments closed
Bishop revokes AZ hospital’s Catholic status over life-saving abortion
TweetHere’s one biggie we missed last week: Remember the nun who was excommunicated earlier this year after approving the life-saving abortion for a critically sick patient? It looks like that wasn’t good enough to be make an example of, and Bishop Thomas Olmsted revoked St. Joseph’s Hospital Center of its Catholic status entirely because it [...]
The Pope’s recent gesture is not an about face on HIV prevention
TweetThis weekend, the Pope has drawn wide praise after comments he made in the recently released, Light of the World: The Pope, the Church and the Signs of the Times, that support condoms in some circumstances. But I agree with the Christian Science Monitor’s assertion; this is evolution, not revolution. Let us first look at [...]
Weekly Feminist Reader