WOUNDED BIRD

Several nights ago, I watched the film Spotlight , which was riveting and all around excellent.  The movie earned its well-deserved Academy...

The other evening, I watched the film Calvary written and directed by John Michael McDonagh, starring Brendan Gleeson, as Fr James...

Gay chef Tom Logan In what his friends claim is a softening of his stance on Popes , 38-year-old gay chef Tom Logan claimed he was fin...

Pope Francis is letting baptized Catholics join the new church structure created to receive Anglican converts . The "ordinariate,...

Óscar Romero Yesterday was the 33rd anniversary of the assassination of Óscar Romero. To honor the occasion, I watched the film tit...

...and asks forgiveness. A Scottish cardinal on Sunday acknowledged having engaged in unspecified sexual misbehavior, apologized for his...

Two leading Lutheran clerics have rejected suggestions from the Vatican that it could create a subdivision for converted Lutherans similar...

Next week, a key player in the passage of Proposition 8 — a man who has decried the "contraceptive mentality" of modern life ...

The right wing of the Republican Party (increasingly all that exists of the Republican Party) has a general problem of starting with its p...

Mitt Romney expects his running mate to help deliver the Catholic vote and smooth over any discomfort among Catholics about Mormonism....

From the ground up is how change will come.  The AP reports on a Holy Thursday sermon by Pope Benedict critical of a group of Austrian Roma...

...One reason: To minister to those who suffer grievous wounds inflicted by the likes of Roman Catholic Father Marcel Guarnizo : Deep in g...

The Vatican From the New York Times : The nation’s Roman Catholic bishops have rejected a compromise on birth control coverage that Presi...

From the comments to an earlier post at Wounded Bird : Tobias Stanislas Haller said ... I keep trying to remind these folks of their ...

The Vatican I've spoken of the heavy-handed tactics of the Roman Catholic Church in which the leaders and their true-believer follower...

From Ross Douthat in the New York Times on the evils of the new rules of Obamacare: But sometimes the state goes further. Not content with...

MURILLO, Bartolomé Esteban - Esquilache Immaculate Conception - 1645-55 (The Hermitage, St. Petersburg) Yesterday was the Feast of the Imm...

From Religion News Services via The Huffington Post : RNS) The Vatican has summoned the head of a traditionalist group to Rome to assess t...

From Maureen Dowd at the New York Times : THE archbishop of Dublin was beginning to sniffle. He could not get through a story about “a real...

Thomas Doyle provides excellent commentary on the recently released John Jay report on clerical child abuse in the Roman Catholic Church. ...