Confronting Power and Sex in the Catholic Church
This book is about much more than sex abuse. It is a well-written review of the many problems that institutional Catholicism is facing in the 21st century. Bp. Robinson deals with many facets of...
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Add to all of the above theSubmitted by Jim & Connie Schumacher (not verified) on May. 31, 2011.Add to all of the above the situation of Geoffrey Robinson, Auxiliary Bishop of Sydney, Australia,...
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Bishops have lost authoritySubmitted by New Yorker (not verified) on Jul. 06, 2011.Bishops have lost authority on sexual and reproductive issues. Zagano is quite right about that. But have they...
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Certainly celibacy and human sexuality are not taught in seminaries. One reason: Sex/celibacy is too dangerous to talk about because not enough bishops, rectors, novice masters, confessors and...
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Tomas, you are right to keep bringing this up - for many former Catholics, this issue is what finally gave us the push needed to leave - our consciences bothered because if we did not leave, we become...
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Those who actually believe what the church teaches about itself - that it is literally God's voice on earth - must begin to doubt the nature of that God, if they are not to admit the depth of the...
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A chronic problem with church pronouncements about sex is their use of the idea of natural law as they define and apply it. The Vatican represents their interpretation of sexual human nature as an...
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In October the Second Vatican Council was considering the chapter on marriage in what was to become Gaudium et Spes, the Pastoral Constitution of the Church in the Modern World. Inevitably, the issue...
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Bishop Geoffrey Robinson is one of the few, if not the only member of the hierarchy, willing to speak out about the real crisis in the Roman Catholic Church and the context and causes of the...
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Bishop Geoff Robinson provides a lucid and realistic description of forgiveness in the context of clergy sexual abuse in his book Confronting Power and Sex in the Catholic Church.He correctly points...
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We think you better serve the Church by staying home and delivering more Catholic Babies,leaving Church Administration to those given the appropriate skills by God:[allegedly] Celibate Males.
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It's really quite simple. SoSubmitted by Phil Megna (not verified) on Feb. 10, 2012.It's really quite simple. So long as the Catholic discussion of morality is lead by a group of men composed almost...
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Robinson -- whose activities before he became a bishop included teaching canon law and heading the Canon Law Society of Australia and New Zealand -- said his own full realization of how serious sex...
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IS SPIRIT HERE AT LAST?Submitted by Jerry Slevin (not verified) on Mar. 16, 2012.IS SPIRIT HERE AT LAST? ....... Thank you, Bishop Robinson for your courage, wisdom and prophetic witness. May your...
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Robinson [retired Australian Bishop Geoffrey Robinson] called for a substantive rethinking of church teaching on sexuality, saying that while its emphasis on the profound significance of sex is...
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Archbishop Vigneron exhibitsSubmitted by Presbyter Tom (not verified) on Mar. 28, 2012.Archbishop Vigneron exhibits typical pontifical arrogance and stupidity to the point he's raised it to the level...
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I am so very thankful to hearSubmitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mar. 28, 2012.I am so very thankful to hear Bishop Robinson's message and I will certainly purchase his book, Confronting Power...
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Here, in summary written form, are the twelve areas that Bishop Robinson suggests need to be addressed:The Angry God: This image the institution projects of a God of Wrath and Anger needs to be...
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On March 8, 2012, the evening before Australian Bishop Geoffrey James Robinson left California for a conference in Baltimore, I had a chance to interview him informally concerning his fears and hopes...
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I think this is the mostSubmitted by Rethinking (not verified) on Jul. 22, 2010.I think this is the most realistic accounting of the clergy and their sexual milieu that I have ever read. Thank you...
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