Jesuit priest, executive editor and director of digital strategy at @americamag — which means: wrestles with both words and code. And God, too.
Mar 2, 2021 • 19 tweets • 5 min read
Thread: This statement on vaccines from the Arch. of New Orleans is grossly irresponsible—it focuses on a hypothetical situation which _no one_ actually faces while introducing entirely predictable confusion and anxiety about situations _many_ people face. nolacatholic.org/news/a-stateme…
Here's the takeaway the church ought to be announcing loud and clear: These vaccines are safe, effective and morally acceptable even if not perfect. Solidarity, especially with those at increased risk from Covid, calls us to get as many people vaccinated as soon as we can.
Nov 16, 2020 • 11 tweets • 3 min read
The US bishops begin their meetings today — and will discuss the #McCarrickReport. They need to remember that this is not just about McCarrick, but about an ecclesial culture that looked other way, at every opportunity, despite being warned.
A thread: 1/ americamagazine.org/faith/2020/11/…
There is no single smoking gun; there are decades of smoke in which no one looked for the fire causing it.
The problem is not primarily malice or lies — it's clerical self-protection and ambition. McCarrick's success in the church became his shield against the truth. 2/
Here's how Jesus responds to me:
"You seem anxious and troubled. Who told you to ask this question this way?"
1/@NYCatholicRadio@KHalveyGibson@americamag@bcstm@Americaeditor@Kerry_Weber "Get behind me, satan!" — because the enemy can (and does) use Scripture and twist good moral claims to divide and desolate us. Jesus asks me if I think that he wants me to pay attention _only_ to the unborn while ignoring immigrants and the poor. And I say "Of course not."
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Aug 18, 2018 • 24 tweets • 4 min read
The problems with this article are legion. There are failures of common sense and pastoral care, failures of logic, and applications of church teaching that are simultaneously stunted and overzealous. This is going to be a long thread (five big points); buckle in.
1st: The article starts and ends with focus on priests and what’s broken with them, not on what survivors are telling us about how the church spent decades protecting priests and ignoring them.
