Search for "can you get cheap airline tickets cyber monda phone number 1-800-299-7264"

The Rise of the Catholic Cyber-Bullies

By Patricia Miller

…ng populist–conservative anger, has given rise to the same sort of vicious cyber-bullying that has characterized attacks on feminists and others who challenge the right. Jesuit priest James Martin had the temerity to write about the need for the Catholic Church to build bridges and open dialogue with the LGBT community. His book Building a Bridge: How the Catholic Church and the LGBT Community Can Enter into a Relationship of Respect, Compassion,…

The Immorality of Immortality

By Hava Tirosh-Samuelson

…hich transhumanism seeks to transcend in its most radical program, that of cyber-immortality. Cyber Immortality: The most radical scenario that transhumanism offers is the one in which humans can transport the content of their brains, their minds, to a non-biological entity and thereby achieve immortality. Ray Kurzweil‘s book, The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology (Viking, 2005), articulates the transhumanist vision of cyberimmort…

Saipov Wasn’t a “Member” of ISIS, But That Misses the Point

By Mark Juergensmeyer

…attacks around the world. Yet even though the territorial ISIS has been defeated, the cyber ISIS remains as a potent network, an invisible community, across channels of cyber space. So when Saipov’s note talks about the endurance of ISIS, it’s this cyber movement that truly endures….

Pricey Tickets, Cranky Citizens, and Priests Behind Bars as Philadelphia Prepares For Papal Visit

By Anthea Butler

…to continue to shrink into the insularity and disorganization that caused the Philadelphia Archdiocese to decline so precipitously? It remains to be seen. Meanwhile, faithful Catholics and others who want to see the Pope may be losing heart. 10,000 tickets for the Pope’s Speech at Independence Mall sold out in two minutes on Tuesday, with 394k people trying their best to get a few. Tickets are already being scalped at $100 and up on craigslist. I…

Cyber-Colonialism: Anonymous Enters LGBT Fray in Uganda

By Joseph Tolton

Members of the “hacktivist” group Anonymous have taken down the government websites of several African countries with records of oppressing LGBT people. On Thursday of last week, they hacked and then leaked the database of Botswana’s Export Development and Investment Authority, as well as Somalia’s TV Network and Gurmad company websites, and the Sudanese stock exchange. They’ve threatened to take down key websites in any African country in which…

Capricology: Tattoos, Blood, Cyber-Dating

By Anthea Butler

…r for that matter, the many years that Hollywood ran from terror away from cyberpunk science fiction, holding onto space opera for decades after it had lost much of its currency in the world of literary science fiction. If Battlestar Galactica was very much a space opera, Caprica has given itself over much more fully to the realm of cyberpunk; complete with the focus on corporate struggles in the high rises and hacker cowboys in the streets below….

Mile-High Identity Politics: What We Can Learn From the Same-Sex Seating Controversy

By Eboo Patel

…, not the fourth century … You’re not free to practice your religion in my airline seat.’ ‘This is male entitlement .. the height of male arrogance.’ One comment referred to this as a ‘back of the bus’ issue; as in, women being asked to move in such circumstances was tantamount to assigning them a lesser status as citizens and lower dignity as human beings. Other readers proposed that airlines set aside special seating for men requiring such accom…

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…

Atheist Nazis? The Pope’s Cheap Atonement

By Susannah Heschel

Adam Clayton Powell called it “cheap grace,” but we might call it “cheap atonement”: the effort by sinners to select which sins to acknowledge and repent. Pope Benedict XVI ended his heavily protested visit to England with a heartfelt apology for German bombings of England during the Battle of Britain; though he refused to accept Christian responsibility for the Holocaust, blaming it instead on pagans and atheists. Given that Cardinal Walter Kasp…

Glenn Beck’s Cheap Grace

By Karyn Carlo

…way from the hard work of repentance, who tickle our ears with promises of cheap grace, and offer a vision of the cross of Jesus that has nothing to say to the crosses, and lynching trees, of history. But, if we do, we will be settling for the gospel of Caesar, not the good news of Jesus Christ. Perhaps it is time to put down the chalk, stop drawing pyrotechnical conspiracy theories that play into our worst fears and listen, instead, for the diffi…