
Paul O'Donnell
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4 weeks ago |
religionnews.com | Paul O'Donnell |Phyllis Zagano
(RNS) — Yes, our new pope said something about women deacons. He said it is under study. Anyone looking for a quick answer from Pope Leo XIV, a canon lawyer, former diocesan bishop in Peru, former head of the Vatican department responsible for choosing bishops and member of seven other Vatican dicasteries, a mathematics major at Villanova University and Chicago White Sox fan, will have to wait. He is very much a synodal man. On Oct.
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1 month ago |
religionnews.com | Paul O'Donnell |Phyllis Zagano
(RNS) — Pope Francis is dead. Will a new pope make any difference for women? Of course, we do not know who the new pope will be, but he will most certainly be chosen from the cardinals set to gather in Rome to elect the next successor to St. Peter.
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1 month ago |
religionnews.com | Paul O'Donnell |Phyllis Zagano
(RNS) — The New Yorker magazine has just managed to insult Christians and Jews alike with a cartoon depicting the Last Supper. In the drawing, by Adam Sacks, Jesus, sitting at what we take to be the Last Supper, says to the apostles, “So this is my body, the wine is my blood, and the chocolate bunny is a fun springtime treat.” A loaf of bread, a chalice and a large chocolate bunny are in the middle of the table. It’s tone-deaf. It’s outrageous. It probably earned Sacks a pretty penny. It’s not funny.
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2 months ago |
religionnews.com | Paul O'Donnell |Paul Brandeis Raushenbush
(RNS) — In the few weeks since the inauguration of President Donald Trump, there have been a distressing number of American institutions and corporations that have “obeyed in advance,” to borrow a phrase from the historian Timothy Snyder. Target, Pepsi, Google and McDonald’s, to name just a few corporations, have agreed to halt efforts at increasing diversity and equity and inclusion.
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2 months ago |
religionnews.com | Paul O'Donnell |Phyllis Zagano
(RNS) — Just when it looked like the anti-Francis forces would have their chance to “fix” the Catholic Church, Pope Francis left Gemelli Hospital. It was a close call, but Francis’ reforms will outlast him. That includes his major reform, the Synod on Synodality, the worldwide program of prayer and conversation about how the church can live its mission going forward.
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