Mr. Reilly, who is Catholic, spoke more angrily about the archdiocese than he had in the past.
Mary McAleese, a former president of Ireland and a devout Catholic, spoke of the difficulties that her son faced in being accepted as a gay man.
It has been over 30 years since what Warhol, who was Catholic, spoke of as his "Jewish geniuses" cause such controversy and the story has even been dramatised on stage by monologist Josh Kornbluth in Andy Warhol: Good for the Jews?
I am proud to see a movement among young evangelicals, mainline Protestants and Roman Catholics speaking out as Christians engaging the political process on issues like climate change (stewardship of creation) and poverty (we're against it, and we don't think the poor are to blame). .
Bishop DiMarzio is an expert on immigration, an important qualification because more than half the diocese's 1.8 million Catholics speak English as a second language.
Mangalorean Catholics speak the Konkani language, which they have retained as their mother tongue despite the migration; the language is central to the community's identity.
I have witnessed self-professed liberal Catholics speak about the need for an open church but also steadfastly refuse to include voices that might challenge their own assumptions.
For instance, we see how rarely we, including Catholics, speak about or promote nonviolent resistance (esp. boycotts, strikes, civil disobedience, etc).
When Catholics speak of "paganism," many contemporary Pagans sense a disconnect between the Catholic image of "paganism" -- which seems to be a kind of Catholic boogeyman -- and the reality of contemporary Paganism.
As Catholics speak out and call upon the Church to live out its call to be a beacon of social justice and love, those in the hierarchy will begin to see another way in which Christ has risen -- he has risen from the silence and has cried out for equality.
