tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7348240626909863719.post6792774503261471224..comments2024-03-06T22:00:22.083-05:00Comments on Questions from a Ewe: Saint by numbers...Questions from a Ewehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06505411853075740722noreply@blogger.comBlogger35125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7348240626909863719.post-18573477723522098992023-07-30T11:16:20.601-04:002023-07-30T11:16:20.601-04:00Hello! A little late here but I love this article....Hello! A little late here but I love this article. I’m working on an art series about saints that is a critical lens about women in the church. I was wondering if you might give me some resources specifically about work done in the church by women, (I see you mentioned 80% of the work done in the church is done by women, which feels very correct but I’m curious about your sources) as well as the Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7348240626909863719.post-8325789588467797392023-06-02T11:31:29.731-04:002023-06-02T11:31:29.731-04:00Nice post thank you JoshNice post thank you JoshAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7348240626909863719.post-58952095976364849612022-05-30T09:38:25.768-04:002022-05-30T09:38:25.768-04:00What an interesting lot of diverse comments. Some ...What an interesting lot of diverse comments. Some highly threatened by the idea that the Catholic Church might not be perfect. It is amusing that some comments seem to suggest women are more likely "to fall" in the world. Anyone notice the gender of the majority of criminals/terrorists/child abusers? There is certainly evidence of bias against women in the Church - take note of the Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7348240626909863719.post-2156980214781472992022-04-20T22:21:44.477-04:002022-04-20T22:21:44.477-04:00Sorry for the delay in responding. "Passive ...Sorry for the delay in responding. "Passive Aggressive" is an indirect resistance or an avoidance of confrontation. I'm not resisting anything, nor am I avoiding confrontation. I am directly calling out Pope John Paul II for what he was, criminally negligent in not protecting children. I am also offering statistically sound analysis of the result of canonization's Questions from a Ewehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06505411853075740722noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7348240626909863719.post-69453931109964493772022-04-20T22:18:44.258-04:002022-04-20T22:18:44.258-04:00Sorry for the delay in responding. "..what wo...Sorry for the delay in responding. "..what women lack by nature..." I don't lack by nature anything more than any other person, nor does any other woman. I have no desire to be like Mary. I had children - the normal way vs impregnation by the Holy Spirit. I had multiple children. I was called to be me, not her. We already had Mary. Additional ones are not needed or God would Questions from a Ewehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06505411853075740722noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7348240626909863719.post-59209492913905267522022-04-20T22:16:05.237-04:002022-04-20T22:16:05.237-04:00Sorry for the delay responding. There are numerou...Sorry for the delay responding. There are numerous sources of information that show John Paul II clearly was aware of and ignored abuse claims. The most notorious was him ignoring the claims against the founder of the Legion of Christ group. Here is an NPR article that provides some data about JPII's awareness about the abuse. Decency says he should have protected children and seminariansQuestions from a Ewehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06505411853075740722noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7348240626909863719.post-53353177080423687062022-04-20T22:10:49.799-04:002022-04-20T22:10:49.799-04:00Sorry for the delay responding. I was in a differ...Sorry for the delay responding. I was in a different location than my laptop for a few months. I thought I still had the spreadsheet I used but I couldn't find it. I used this database: https://www.catholic.org/saints/ I didn't take a random selection from the database, I went through I think the first so many letters of the alphabet. I'll keep looking for the database and if I Questions from a Ewehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06505411853075740722noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7348240626909863719.post-75369690315304604042022-01-12T07:14:11.275-05:002022-01-12T07:14:11.275-05:00Hello! I would like to ask about your original dat...Hello! I would like to ask about your original database. I would like to cite your numbers in one of my dissertations, but I would need to know how did you ensure that your original database was random? Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7348240626909863719.post-64650918963841659202021-06-17T08:44:08.126-04:002021-06-17T08:44:08.126-04:00Ad hominem attacks are not permitted. You make un...Ad hominem attacks are not permitted. You make unsubstantiated claims about women, which are in line with misogynistic stereotypes. Thus, you are unlikely to be a good judge of what is or isn’t misogyny. Thank you for investing your time reading my blog and offering your unsubstantiated opinions as feedback to the substantive statistics in the article. Questions from a Ewehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06505411853075740722noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7348240626909863719.post-80600468461415485542021-06-16T21:40:54.428-04:002021-06-16T21:40:54.428-04:00This article is a skewed view of the totality of G...This article is a skewed view of the totality of God. In the notion of little faith, do you think the Lord would allow such atrocity to skew who the One True Church recognizes of 'worthy of greater honor'? How low you must be to degrade even the saints of our your life time. Are you jealous of their virtue and dedication and reliance on God? DO you realize that to slander such Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7348240626909863719.post-38133604793477478032020-10-31T18:36:41.820-04:002020-10-31T18:36:41.820-04:00No doubt that the canonisation process is skewed i...No doubt that the canonisation process is skewed in favour of some standard 'types'. Against that, many of the good and humble people we know and regard as Saints and, God forbid, we ourselves might have hidden flaws exposed if they were elevated to positions of prominence. It's sad to see the heroic Pope John Paul II described as a criminal and as an abettor of child abuse. Once a Joe McMahonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11306859544803531138noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7348240626909863719.post-68006966283022784872020-01-01T17:44:52.130-05:002020-01-01T17:44:52.130-05:00Well the Virgin Mary alone surpasses in grace, hol...Well the Virgin Mary alone surpasses in grace, holiness, and perfection ALL the angels and saints combined, so i think she makes up for in Grace what women lack by nature... Be like herNicolas Carnogurskyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03322467932054270736noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7348240626909863719.post-35657084161352950292019-05-04T13:22:41.151-04:002019-05-04T13:22:41.151-04:00thank You!!!!!thank You!!!!!Skolotājahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12985535385444780663noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7348240626909863719.post-14063028464171318272018-11-29T20:28:06.258-05:002018-11-29T20:28:06.258-05:00I sense some serious passive aggression within thi...I sense some serious passive aggression within this post...Teniesha Collinshttp://www.palandri.canoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7348240626909863719.post-83812342942253987842018-10-23T01:23:50.045-04:002018-10-23T01:23:50.045-04:00Facts are facts and statistical trends are statist...Facts are facts and statistical trends are statistical trends. You seem threatened by facts and the trends revealed by looking at them. I pity people who fear facts and are threatened by the trends they reveal. You seem to miss the point that married women canonized saints are very rare and immediately assume that a woman who has sex must be unmarried and harp upon that point. What a very Questions from a Ewehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06505411853075740722noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7348240626909863719.post-46226402956330818672018-10-19T23:31:51.550-04:002018-10-19T23:31:51.550-04:00What a bunch of crock. Those canonised as saints h...What a bunch of crock. Those canonised as saints have lived exemplary lives of holiness - unlike the people who criticise and pass damning judgement on them. And to try and bring sexism into it just shows exactly what your motivation truly is - to spread the demonic spirit of discord and disharmony in the church. Instead of focusing on the ratio of exactly how many men and women have become Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7348240626909863719.post-76584456952766275722018-06-30T15:48:34.664-04:002018-06-30T15:48:34.664-04:00Who are you? (not your name) You are hilarious. T...Who are you? (not your name) You are hilarious. Thanks for the engaging read!Judyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08812851583914241960noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7348240626909863719.post-61857154585619113372017-12-07T16:13:41.335-05:002017-12-07T16:13:41.335-05:00Hi! I don't know if this post is still active ...Hi! I don't know if this post is still active but I am doing a research project on the canonization of extra-religious women v. ordained women in the 14th century and was wondering where you got your numbers for the ratio of women (part 7 of your post). Thanks so much!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7348240626909863719.post-12267408014157449632017-10-12T11:37:17.742-04:002017-10-12T11:37:17.742-04:00What about being wealthy? From my daily reflectio...What about being wealthy? From my daily reflections on the lives of the saints included in a daily e-mailing I receive, it seems that being wealthy really helps. Especially if you insist on being a woman and not being a virgin.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7348240626909863719.post-20959360647183308402014-04-23T14:27:00.592-04:002014-04-23T14:27:00.592-04:00Canonization is much like the Congressional Medal ...Canonization is much like the Congressional Medal of Honor. You have to do something heroic. AND you have to have somebody witness your heroic action. A witness that matters in the grand political scheme of things who will write you up for the CMH. Likewise, for canonization, you not only have to do something heroic with regard to faith, but your actions must be witnessed by people that matter. T'Pelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14497973041430354008noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7348240626909863719.post-4512621588064777942014-04-23T08:54:49.348-04:002014-04-23T08:54:49.348-04:00I'll be most interested to learn NCR's res...I'll be most interested to learn NCR's response. Much as I love NCR, my guess is that you'll not be invited to blog at their site. They have a kind of "on the one hand, on the other hand" tone to their coverage, and even their most audacious regular contributors are not as pointed as you, Ewe, who never hesitates to say the Emperor has no clothes. I hope I'm wrong Kathleen Schatzbergnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7348240626909863719.post-62682257639357863352014-04-21T19:45:22.628-04:002014-04-21T19:45:22.628-04:00Based on people's encouragement here and in pr...Based on people's encouragement here and in private emails I sent a note of inquiry to NCR. It will be as it is meant to be. Thanks for the kind words.Questions from a Ewehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06505411853075740722noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7348240626909863719.post-88385887796537374982014-04-21T15:31:32.981-04:002014-04-21T15:31:32.981-04:00I'm guessing you don't want to get caught ...I'm guessing you don't want to get caught up in the business of submitting writings or managing submitted writings. And I hope you don't get caught up in that either. But you could look into submitting to maybe NCR only and only have to read one set of submission guidelines. Your writings are too good to be read by only those who happen upon your site. I am very spare with SarahTX2https://www.blogger.com/profile/13127925134697324637noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7348240626909863719.post-89831244141507429732014-04-21T15:21:23.504-04:002014-04-21T15:21:23.504-04:00Super interesting. Thanks for doing this research...Super interesting. Thanks for doing this research. Much food for thought. I've always wondered how women can be so devoted to the Catholic Church. To some extent women seem to need to be devalued in order to feel comfortable.SarahTX2https://www.blogger.com/profile/13127925134697324637noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7348240626909863719.post-30524606012553328052014-04-21T06:43:47.116-04:002014-04-21T06:43:47.116-04:00If you got a notice that your comment was rejected...If you got a notice that your comment was rejected, it is because I was trying to delete the email notifying me of the comment and instead accidentally deleted your comment. I think I successfully re-added your comment though. I only use gmail for notifications associated with this blog so am not very adept at navigating it.Questions from a Ewehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06505411853075740722noreply@blogger.com