Enlightened Catholicism

A place for Catholics who don't find their Catholic identity in the standard definitions. "He drew a circle that shut me out. Heretic, rebel, a thing to flout. But Love and I had the wit to win: We drew a circle that took him in." Edwin Markham

Thursday, July 17, 2014

Jennifer Hasselberger Drives A Truck Through The Lies Of The Clerical Caste Of The Archdiocese Of St Paul and Minneapolis

Archbishop Neinstedt gives the camera his best "I would never tell a lie" expression. I just finished reading Jennifer Hass...

Friday, July 11, 2014

Women In The Clergy Doesn't Have To Be A Threat, But It Sure Is

Forty years ago this was such a violation of gender roles women hockey players were unthinkable. Unfortunately Catholicism has not seen ...

Friday, July 4, 2014

The Joys Of Summer Reading During The Week of The 4th of July

Kudos to Bill Day for this cartoon image. I spent part of my summer week reading the Supreme Court decision in the Hobby Lobby case. ...

Saturday, May 31, 2014

About This Upcoming Meeting With Clerical Abuse Survivors

SNAP will continue to be needed as long as enablers in the clergy keep their frocks....and their futile strategy to keep the laity as re...

Saturday, May 3, 2014

Cardinal O'Malley Talks About Bishop Accountability....And The Deep Denial Of Some Of Them

A photo from back in the day when their friendship hadn't gotten quite as complicated as it is now and will be in the future if Card...

Friday, May 2, 2014

St John Paul II: The Pope Of The Family.....Really?

St JPII will be looking down from heaven on the Synod on the family....so says Pope Francis. While I can't say that I was overwhel...

Friday, April 25, 2014

Opus Dei Brings Out Their Best Spin Meister's To Defend Their Pope

Greg Burke must have felt a strong need to pull his fellow OD member Jaoquin Navarro-Valls out of retirement on behalf of respinning JPII...

Saturday, April 12, 2014

Pope Francis On The Possibility of Married Priests

For some reason when discussing the priest shortage, one rarely hears that one big reason is the increase in lay Catholics. That the incr...

Thursday, April 10, 2014

A Complicated Knot: Can Fr Francis Stay True To Himself When Acting As Pope Francis?

Mary the Undoer of Knots. Notice how she is not using scissors or swords to untie these particular knots. There are no shortcuts to thos...

Saturday, April 5, 2014

Pell: The Pastor Of Coins

Before heading off to become the Vatican's financial boss, Cardinal Pell had a few rough days explaining how he handled clerical abuse...

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colkoch: I am a Catholic mystic/psychic whose mission has been to find out what other spiritual traditions and scientific discoveries have to offer to understand the message of Jesus Christ. It's been a trip and a half. One I hope to share with you.

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