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“Make The Mass Latin Again”: The Pope Francis Backlash Comes Home

By Kaya Oakes

…Catholics, both young and mature adults, at Mary Star of the Sea Church in San Francisco. There would be nothing notable about an Archbishop performing a confirmation ceremony except for this: according to the Traditional Latin Mass Society of San Francisco, it was the first confirmation in San Francisco performed in Latin—the “Extraordinary Form” of the Catholic Mass—since the reforms of Vatican II in the 1960s. The San Francisco diocesan newslet…

Will San Francisco Ban Circumcision?

By Shalom Goldman

…d, a retired credit manager, launched a campaign to outlaw circumcision in San Francisco. He proposed a ballot measure that would make it a misdemeanor to “circumcise, excise, cut, or mutilate the genitals of all minors.” Schofield’s reasoning is that circumcision is mutilation without consent of the patient. He told a local CBS affiliate that “people can practice whatever religion they want, but your religious practice ends with someone else’s bo…

Queering Easter: The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence Redefine Sainthood

By Susan Henking

…ien to sainthood, another figure linked to AIDS and HIV was “canonized” in San Francisco. As the Bay Area Reporter put it: “Where else but San Francisco could Irene Smith, a true pioneer in care for the ill and dying, be sainted by the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence?” Who is Smith? Here’s what the Bay Area Reporter said: Smith, who conducts Everflowing educational programs that teach touch skills as an integral component of end of life care, is r…

Protests Force Torch Detour in San Francisco

By Lygia Navarro

…e opening ceremony rumors circulated that the Torch might not be coming to San Francisco after all. By the time the news finally came in, the city had already secreted the Torch down an unpublicized alternate route to avoid the protests completely, closing with a ceremony at the airport before the Torch continued on its “Journey of Harmony.” Unhappy throngs quickly took over nearby restaurants and benches. “The Olympics is a world event. It’s not…

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…

Dog Whistles and Holes in the Masterpiece Cakeshop Arguments?

By Patrick Hornbeck

…gender, religion, and sexual orientation. “[R]ace is particularly unique,” Francisco said, and “pretty much anything but race would fall in the same category.” On one level, Waggoner and Francisco were simply echoing an extensive series of rulings that have recognized that the government has a particularly compelling interest in preventing racial discrimination, as in the 1968 case Newman v. Piggie Park Enterprises when the Court refused to counte…

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…

How a Powerful ‘Ex-Gay’ Pastor is Chasing the Latino Vote

By Katherine Stewart

…nization has spawned at least one affiliate, Alianza de Pastores Unidos de San Diego, whose members minister to largely Spanish-speaking audiences. It wasn’t always this way, of course, and it isn’t going to change overnight. Many of the southern white evangelical groups that remain entrenched in the national leadership of the religious right hail from a tradition that long maintained that separation of the races is central to the Bible’s plan. In…

Burning Down the Temple: Religion and Irony in Black Rock City

By Sarah M. Pike

…out the city this year, as did artwork addressing rites of passage such as San Francisco based artist Peter Hudson’s Charon: a three-dimensional stroboscopic zoetrope of life-sized skeletons rowing across the river Styx. Just to make sure Burners don’t take any beliefs they brought with them too seriously, Burning Man abounds with parodies of organized religion. Although it is billed as an art festival, it is also a lively site of religious critic…

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…