Rudnick can mock, but he cannot win

July 16, 2009

Father Jim Martin’s article The New Yorker Has Its “Fun with Nuns” about Paul Rudnick’s article has generated a lot of interesting discussion. There’s one comment in particular that I’d like to highlight (thanks to Jean for alerting me to it).
The comment is from “RP”, a religious sister ministering in Los Angeles.
… Thank you for [...]

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The New Yorker out of line with “Nun Fun”

July 15, 2009

Father James Martin, SJ, has written a fine response to Paul Rudnick’s article “Fun with Nuns” in The New Yorker (July 20, 2009 issue). Rudnick’s article covers his efforts to get a screenplay (that would eventually end up as “Sister Act”) produced. But his attitude toward and descriptions of nuns is more than “slightly repellent” as [...]

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Code of Conduct

July 14, 2009

In light of the article and the very good discussion about Catholics and the Culture of Hate, I thought I’d post another link from our friend DavidK. It’s a “code of conduct” for commenting from Sojourners, an organization dedicated to articulating “the biblical call to social justice, inspiring hope and building a movement to transform [...]

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Catholics and the Culture of Hate

July 11, 2009

A very interesting article by Dawn Eden of The Dawn Patrol blog and William Doino Jr. has just been published: Catholics and the Culture of Hate: A plea for an end to our culture wars. Kudos to the authors and to Busted Halo for addressing this issue.
The issue in question is how nasty Catholics [...]

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