Sightings Articles
Refugee Crisis
The floods of ocean waters in tsunamis occasioned by earthquakes and the floods of humans as refugees occasioned by deathly regimes, revolutions, and food-and-shelter shortages, dominated recent headlines....
September 21, 2015
Annulments and Change
“Annulments” turned up in many a recent headline in print and on blogs, referencing a new papal action. To anticipate a united response is to miss the dynamics of contemporary bi-polar Catholicism. One typical headline-and-subheading summarized ...
September 14, 2015
Vanishing Clergy
Our editor suggests that we postpone our next Sightings until September, to give a busy staff a breather after the busiest summer-news of news-logging we can remember.Our files and e-files bulge or pulse with folders called “Current.” Before we tuck ...
July 27, 2015
Encyclical
In the cartoon, Pope Francis, at prayer, says, “Sooo. That went over like a lead balloon.”...
July 13, 2015
Religion Overwhelms in News
Sightings this week belongs to the “catching our breath” or “cleaning our glasses” category of columns. Note that for once it lists no sources or resources at the end. There are simply too many to cite. We cannot recall, in our sixteen years of “sigh...