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Our Lady of Good Hope and Excellent Behavior: Why this Apparition and Why Now?

By Lisa Bitel

…n converts and fast-tracking John Paul II for canonization. Meanwhile, the Virgin keeps descending to obscure locations in Rwanda, Korea, Australia, and across Latin America and the borderlands of America and Mexico. The number of apparitions in the U.S. seems to keep rising, but not because of Belgian immigrants to Wisconsin. What seems to be an increase in apparitions is probably a jump in reports of apparitions and manifestations of the Virgin….

First U.S. Visit of the Virgin Mary Confirmed in Wisconsin

By Lewis Wallace

…s who are the first advocates for a person’s canonization. The Vatican has supported the mainstreaming of strains of Catholicism ranging from the entire Franciscan order (St. Francis started his career as something of a controversial rogue) to veneration of the Virgin of Guadalupe in Latin America (a single goatherd saw her in the hills in 1531). The Basilica at Guadalupe is now a site that draws over 10 million visitors per year, making it the se…

Australian Church Leaders See Marriage Vote as Battle for Soul of Australia: Global LGBT Recap 10/30

By Peter Montgomery

…who recounts the kinds of racial discrimination he faced as an aboriginal Australian. He noted that Australians voted in 1967 to give aboriginal people Australian citizenship, and says people should vote Yes to give gay and lesbian Australians “a fair go.” Egypt: Anti-gay crackdown continues with introduction of harsh criminalization law Some lawmakers have introduced harsh new anti-gay legislation that would impose prison terms not only for “per…

Australia’s Harsh Refugee Policies Stirring Backlash; Malawi Court Sides With Pastors To Lift Moratorium on Sodomy Prosecutions; Uzbek President Says God Has Taken Gays’ Reason Away; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ights are very homophobic and even though we have human rights lawyers who support us … generally, it is very hard to get support from [other] lawyers,” Abu explains. In November, the foundation, established in 2012, trained its first 20 paralegals from the LGBT community in legal rights, counselling advice and security support, with the help of a local human rights lawyer, police representative and doctor. The public can contact the group directl…

Marriage Debate in Australia Shifts To Push For Religious Exemptions; and More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…the globe as people embrace marriage equality. Earlier this month, former Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott spoke to the Alliance Defending Freedom, a US-based group that has supported the criminalization of same-sex activity, defended discredited “conversion therapies” for minors, and fought to exclude transgender youth from sharing gendered spaces. At the gathering, Abbott warned the crowd that the drive toward marriage equality threatened…

Evangelical “Sexual Purity” Is Not About Sex—It’s About Power

By Sara J. Moslener

…n on this, my opinion is not the same thing as my book’s argument—which is supported with evidence and argumentation. My work as an historian is to describe what is, not prescribe what should be. The goal of Virgin Nation is to examine the cultural and political work done in the name of sexual purity. Whether you believe that work is the salvation of America or the root of all sexual tyranny, the book offers an important historical perspective. Di…

The Key to Understanding the Federalist Society Isn’t Originalism — It’s This 800-Year Old Tradition

By Peter Schwartz

…notions of “human dignity” and “human flourishing,” Catholic natural law—an 800-year-old tradition dating back to Thomas Aquinas—is a lens that offers utter clarity to conservative Catholic jurists, activists, policymakers, and scholars as they observe, describe, and engage the world. The power and sharpness of this lens allow them to confidently snap every human movement—every human desire and motive and act—into its divinely appointed and proper…

Amid Anticipation of Government Disclosure, ‘We Are Not Alone’ Follows Those Who Claim Alien Contact Through Meditation

By Joseph Laycock

…elligence (CSETI) and in 1991 Greer’s team reported their first successful contact with a UFO, which appeared in the sky and blinked its lights at them. CE5 has continued to grow over since. In April 2020, Greer was featured prominently in the documentary Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind: Contact has Begun, directed by DC’s friend Michael Mazzola. As DC recalls, the film was perfectly timed to coincide with Covid lockdown: It was the middle of C…

Trump v LGBT People At the UN; ‘Bible Beer’ Backlash in Australia; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ciety’s 200th birthday; the text on the can read, “Happy 200th birthday to Australia’s longest-living charity, from Australia’s longest-living family brewery.” Coopers subsequently cancelled the release of the commemorative cans and announced that the company would join Australian Marriage Equality. Immigration Minister Peter Dutton criticized corporate executives who have supported LGBT activists’ marriage equality campaign. Qantas CEO Alan Joyce…

Southern Evangelicals Defend Pedophilia Using Catholic Legends

By Karen E. Park

…toevangelium is concerned, beginning to end, with preserving the perpetual virginity of Mary, not the virgin birth. In fact in the text a midwife who doubts that Mary could remain a virgin even during birth performs a quick pelvic exam on her, only to have her hand burst into flames for her unbelief. Both Matthew and Luke affirm that Mary conceived Jesus while a virgin, but unlike the Protoevangelium they do not imply that she remained a virgin fo…