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

By Anthea Butler

…sarray from the administrations of Cardinals Rigali and Bevilacqua. Pope Benedict XXVI knew exactly what he was doing when he announced in June 2012 that Philadelphia would get the 2015 WMOF—the Archdiocese of Philadelphia has suffered from poor management for years and the now-emeritus Pope was trying to get Philly Catholics off life support. Sex abuse scandals, two grand jury investigations, the imprisonment of a archdiocesan administrator, fina…

What We Need to Understand is that Fascism is Intersectional and Erotic—’Thy Rod is Thy Gun,’ With a Hip-Thrust

By Annika Brockschmidt

…preacher had started but the press was sitting back there looking at their phones not paying attention. This the most right-wing preacher I’ve ever heard—he’s screaming [for] Holy war—and they didn’t cover it! And then they ask, where did the evangelical support come from? So I go to the bar to get drunk. There’s some other people with the same mission. Amongst them, some former steelworkers. They hate Trump and they know Trump’s a racist, but the…

London Calling: “Our Great War Is a Spiritual War”

By Elizabeth Drescher

…utlets as sites for organized repression and/or expression of the powerlessness and hopelessness that characterizes youth culture in places that simmer like East London all over the economically floundering developed world, more such outrage is always just one blind, stupid authoritarian action away. Of course, however well they may or may not have worked in the past, institutionalized structures for venting or swallowing underclass rage are not t…

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

By Eboo Patel

…on the tension caused when Orthodox Jewish men request same-sex seating on airlines for religious reasons generated over 3,000 reader responses. The scenario as described in the story generally unfolds something like this: the individual reaches his assigned seat and finds that the seat next to him is occupied by a woman. He shifts uncomfortably in the aisle until the flight attendant or an alert passenger recognizes what’s going on and asks the w…

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

By Peter Schwartz

…ents, while the lawyer division comprises more than 65,000 practicing attorneys in ninety cities. Framed slightly differently, the Federalist Society is explicitly an organization devoted to ideas—to the ideas associated with American federalism and originalism, to be sure, but also to ideas associated, more broadly speaking, with history, religion, morality, and philosophy. What we might call “civilizational” ideas. As the natural-law-minded will…

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…

St. Paul’s Cathedral Leadership Gutted as Occupy London Controversy Grows

By Theo Hobson

…v. Graeme Knowles. Last week the London branch of the Occupy movement spawned one of the biggest British religion stories of recent years. The reason is that the occupiers chose to pitch their tents on a pedestrianized area right in front of St Paul’s Cathedral. It’s next to the London Stock Exchange, which of course is the point, but the land is principally owned by the cathedral. This choice of site introduced a religious dimension. The protest…

London’s ‘Big Gay Iftar’ And More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…lternative for Germany Party. Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board adopts new guidelines on LGBT refugees Canada’s Immigration and Refugee board announced new guidelines for dealing with cases involving sexual orientation and gender identity and expression. A story published the same day, May 1, in The Globe and Mail, addresses the need for the guidelines: When they reach Canadian soil, gay refugees fleeing repressive, homophobic regimes face a m…

Leper Messiah: A Jesus Freak’s Search for the Meaning of Bowie—A Critical Novella

By Mark Dery

…the Cross strove, through the Imitation of Christ, to attain an ecstatic oneness with God; in the same way that charismatics fervently desire the “indwelling” or “infilling” of the Holy Spirit, so that they may live “spirit-filled” lives, guided by God’s will (entheos); in the same way, perversely, that the deranged Beatles fan Mark David Chapman was convinced that killing John Lennon would transform him into a household deity like his idol, a “g…

Glenn Beck’s Cheap Grace

By Karyn Carlo

…lvation may be personal, but it is not private. Love for God and love for one another are connected. 1 John 4:20 puts it this way “Those who say, ‘I love God,’ and hate their brothers or sisters, are liars; for those who do not love a brother or sister whom they have seen, cannot love God whom they have not seen.” Black theology challenges white Christians to love our black brothers and sisters not in a cloying or condescending way, but with real…