c. 2006 Religion News Service (UNDATED) In his Aug. 30 commentary for Religion News Service, “Abbott More Like Costello in Attacks on Bernardin,” Eugene Kennedy attacked columnist Matt Abbott for his comments on the late Cardinal Joseph Bernardin’s role in the rise of what I call the “Homosexual Collective” in the Roman Catholic Church. Abbott’s […]

“It behooves us to keep talking about the papal election for as long as possible. Once it’s over, we’re back to the federal budget deliberations, and I prefer a story in which nothing gets sequestered but the cardinals.” Thus columnist Gail Collins spoke for many of us.

c. 2007 Religion News Service (UNDATED) At this time when many observers bewail the lack of great leaders, a truly great one, Father Theodore Hesburgh, is celebrating his 90th birthday (May 25). Now president emeritus of the University of Notre Dame, which he led for 35 years, Hesburgh could still take on the papacy or […]

c. 2006 Religion News Service SCHEDULED FOR RNS NEXT WEEK: RNS-JEWISH-GAYISSUES: Gay Issues Don’t Threaten Conservative Jews (UNDATED) When it comes to the questions of whether to ordain gay and lesbian rabbis and perform same-sex commitment ceremonies, Reform and Orthodox Jews know where their movements stand. Simply put, Reform Jews do both, Orthodox Jews do […]

c. 2006 Religion News Service (UNDATED) The best way to understand Pope Benedict XVI is to compare his succeeding the larger-than-life John Paul II to Harry Truman’s following the equally giant-sized Franklin D. Roosevelt. The year-end news roundups stressed the void left in the media universe by the death of John Paul. Pundits alternated between […]

c. 2006 Religion News Service (UNDATED) Leon Gambetta was an anti-Catholic 19th-century French politician, but he sounds up-to-date in his proclamation, “Clericalism, there is the enemy.” Clericalism is still the enemy of all religion, especially Christianity, and it is found exclusively in members of the clergy themselves. Poet T.S. Eliot once identified a parson’s “features […]

c. 2000 Religion News Service (Eugene Kennedy, a longtime observer of the Roman Catholic Church, is professor emeritus of psychology at Loyola University in Chicago and author most recently of “My Brother Joseph,” published by St. Martin’s Press.) (UNDATED) The pope and bishops should pay close attention to former President Jimmy Carter’s announcement that, in […]

c. 2000 Religion News Service (Eugene Kennedy, a longtime observer of the Roman Catholic Church, is professor emeritus of psychology at Loyola University in Chicago and author most recently of “My Brother Joseph,” published by St. Martin’s Press.) (UNDATED) The pope and bishops should pay close attention to former President Jimmy Carter’s announcement that, in […]

c. 2000 Religion News Service (Eugene Kennedy, a longtime observer of the Roman Catholic Church, is professor emeritus of psychology at Loyola University in Chicago and author most recently of “My Brother Joseph,” published by St. Martin Press.) (UNDATED) Some observers claim science and religion are necessarily opposed to each other. Since no deep thinker […]

c. 2000 Religion News Service (Eugene Kennedy, a longtime observer of the Roman Catholic Church, is professor emeritus of psychology at Loyola University in Chicago and author most recently of “My Brother Joseph,” published by St. Martin Press.) (UNDATED) Some observers claim science and religion are necessarily opposed to each other. Since no deep thinker […]

c. 2000 Religion News Service (Eugene Kennedy, a longtime observer of the Roman Catholic Church, is professor emeritus of psychology at Loyola University in Chicago and author most recently of “My Brother Joseph,” published by St. Martin’s Press.) (UNDATED) Criticizing Roman Catholic schools has been very popular among certain strongly conservative observers in recent years. […]

c. 2000 Religion News Service (Eugene Kennedy, a longtime observer of the Roman Catholic Church, is professor emeritus of psychology at Loyola University in Chicago and author most recently of “My Brother Joseph,” published by St. Martin’s Press.) (UNDATED) Criticizing Roman Catholic schools has been very popular among certain strongly conservative observers in recent years. […]

c. 2000 Religion News Service (Eugene Kennedy, a longtime observer of the Roman Catholic Church, is professor emeritus of psychology at Loyola University in Chicago and author most recently of “My Brother Joseph,” published by St. Martin’s Press.) (UNDATED) It is hard even to imagine what could be scandalous in a culture that gives a […]

c. 2000 Religion News Service (Eugene Kennedy, a longtime observer of the Roman Catholic Church, is professor emeritus of psychology at Loyola University in Chicago and author most recently of “My Brother Joseph,” published by St. Martin’s Press.) (UNDATED) It is hard even to imagine what could be scandalous in a culture that gives a […]

c. 2000 Religion News Service (Eugene Kennedy, a longtime observer of the Roman Catholic Church, is professor emeritus of psychology at Loyola University in Chicago and author most recently of “My Brother Joseph,” published by St. Martin’s Press.) (UNDATED) In this Jubilee year, Catholics can make pilgrimages without going very far from home. They gain […]