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

By Anthea Butler

…s recently incarcerated at Curran Freehold Prison, the prison that Pope Francis will visit in Philadelphia—but the priest was moved at the end of July 2015. When there is a possibility of the Pope visiting Catholic clergy in the clink, that can’t be good. On top of it all, the current leader, Archbishop Chaput, has clashed with Philadelphia’s Catholics over parish and school closings and, more recently, with the firing of a gay teacher in a Cathol…

Days of Reckoning for the Philadelphia Archdiocese

By Anthea Butler

…e in the complicity of a Church that in the American context has bishops, including Archbishop Chaput of Philadelphia, ranting about religious freedom and birth control, while not giving a damn about the children who have been repeatedly raped and abused in their care. I can no longer sit back and criticize the Church without asking a big question: For those of you who stay, how can you do it? How can you sit under such perfidy? Here’s why I ask….

Crisis in Philly: Trial Date Nears for Priests Indicted in Sex Abuse Scandal

By Anthea Butler

…cases, four civil suits have been filed so far against the Archdiocese of Philadelphia. Philadelphia’s case may be harrowing, but I suspect it is not unique. It is very clear that the first round of trials did not clean up every diocese. The work of United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People clearly has not taken complete hold in the American church. In a statement on March 24, the…

Promise Keepers 2.0: Women and Jews Invited

By J. Terry Todd

…stage before the largely white, middle-aged (and presumably gentile) audience. They included Rabbis Jonathan Bernis and Joel Chernoff, Dan Juster, and musicians Paul Wilbur and Marty Goetz. The Folsom Field rally was, in some sense, a coming out party for Messianic Judaism, a movement almost completely unknown to most American Christians. This ain’t your daddy’s Jews for Jesus, the rally seemed to be saying. “This is going to relaunch Promise Kee…

Trump, Islamophobia, and the Philly Pig’s Head Incident

By David Krueger

…rth America where it was legal to hold a public mass. Despite the noble principles of the city’s founder, Philadelphia often struggled with religious diversity. In the 1830s and 40s, Irish Catholics poured into Philadelphia and other American cities. (Patricia Miller just wrote about the anti-Catholic backlash that occurred in Baltimore in the 1830s here on RD.) Prominent civic leaders were suspicious that these new immigrants gave their allegianc…

Why Build a Mormon Complex in Philly?

By David Krueger

…gh-rise building, and commercial spaces. In short, it’s carving out a distinctly Mormon enclave. The temple has received largely positive media coverage and one architecture critic celebrated it as “the most radical work of architecture built in Philadelphia in a half-century.” Constructed in an area populated by some of the city’s most prominent cultural institutions, including the oldest natural history museum in the Americas, the Philadelphia M…

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

By Eboo Patel

…ewish man on the plane? One might argue that the Orthodox Jew is actively inconveniencing you by asking you to move. Yes, but so is the mother who wants to sit by her children. In twenty years of flying I have never seen anybody deny that request. The central issue may be that the Orthodox Jew is targeting only a specific identity to move—namely women. Yes, but when black students at Oak Park River Forest High School held a black-only meeting to d…

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

By Peter Schwartz

…to dismantle the secular liberal foundations of American law and jurisprudence in place since the New Deal. Ultimately, we need to ask how it’s been so easy for the Federalist Society to gull the nation for so long and with such ease. The answer probably lies in the “historical innocence” of Americans about which Alexis de Tocqueville wrote in Democracy in America. With no feudal past to constrain us, with Protestantism and the Enlightenment the b…

Religion at the Moral March

By Peter Montgomery

…in civil disobedience during last year’s Moral Mondays protests. It also included references to scriptural exhortations not to oppress the stranger, and to love your neighbor as yourself. Dinner’s message was a call for the people of North Carolina not to stand by while oppressive legislation was enacted in their names. Legislators, she said, have a “sacred task,” and the citizens who democratically elect them have the responsibility to hold the…

Atheist Nazis? The Pope’s Cheap Atonement

By Susannah Heschel

…c—established the “Institute for the Study and Eradication of Jewish Influence on German Church Life,” financed by the Protestant church. They published a new version of the New Testament, purged of positive references to Jews and Judaism, redefined Jesus as an Aryan Galilean, and downplayed the role of the Jewish apostle Paul. In addition to their New Testament they distributed a dejudaized hymnal and catechism to churches throughout the Nazi Rei…