Month May 2008
This is a great find from one of the funniest priests in the blogosphere, Fr. Erik Richtsteig. He says: Two thoughts: First, I hope she never had to teach teenage boys. Second, I wonder what she did to so annoy… Continue Reading →
In this corner you have old habit-less nuns in pants suits who more or less act like social workers who don’t date. And then you have an order of nuns, many of whom are in the 20’s, in full habit… Continue Reading →
10 Year Olds Knew it in 1948—Catholic Comics Got it Right, Why Can’t Theologians Bigfoot, Jesus, and the Bermuda Triangle—Everything Old is New Again Progressive Cognitive Dissonance—Fr. McBrien expresses his shock that the sheep did not turn out to be… Continue Reading →
A good friend recently pointed out a web site which has scans of Catholic comic books from the 1940s through the 1960s. On the one hand, they are fun and a great snapshot into mid twentieth- century Catholicism. On the… Continue Reading →
Anyone who’s watched practically any “news” show on ABC recently must have seen something about this new “shocking” documentary about Jesus. ABC has devoted almost 15 minutes of air-time on Good Morning America and “Nightline” to a documentary filmmaker who… Continue Reading →
cognitive dissonance –noun Psychology. anxiety that results from simultaneously holding contradictory or otherwise incompatible attitudes, beliefs, or the like Professional progressive Fr. Richard McBrien in his most recent column displays a very striking (and humorous) cognitive dissonance when it comes… Continue Reading →
To help the Los Angeles archdiocese pay off the “crippling debt” accrued from sexual abuse settlements, Cardinal Roger Mahony will soon announce that his new $200 million Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels in downtown Los Angeles will now… Continue Reading →
Doctors Deciding Who Dies—Are You On the List? Church Guilty of “Gender Apartheid”—Yes, this WomynPriest is called the Rosa Parks of the Church The Case For Chaos—When it comes to communion, I take ugly and anonymous over the orderly. Christian… Continue Reading →
In case of an epidemic or some other kind of disaster, a group of doctors know that some patients needing lifesaving care won’t get it, says the AP. The dilemma will be deciding who to let die. No problem, says… Continue Reading →
Catholic blogs take issue with many different things. CMR is no exception. Most of the time, we take exception with patently preposterous, the harebrained, or heretical. Less frequently (amounting to never) do we look at something from a pastoral perspective…. Continue Reading →