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“We All We Got”: The Black Church As an Oasis in Baltimore’s Food Deserts

By Kasai Rex

…came to be the mantra. According to a recent joint report from the city of Baltimore and the Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future, one in four Baltimore residents live in so-called “food deserts,” or areas in which it is difficult for those living in poverty to find affordable or good-quality fresh food. This food access inequality is born of the housing segregation actively perpetrated in Baltimore for decades and the sloughing away of heavy…

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…

On Maryland Marriage Equality, It’s Raven vs. Raven [UDPATED]

By Sarah Posner

…me the iconic image of the evening. Also last night, actor Josh Charles, a Baltimore native, one of People magazine’s sexiest men alive, and supporter of marriage equality, threw out the first pitch at the Baltimore Orioles playoff game against the New York Yankees. (All in all, a fine night for Charm City.) What’s more, Marylanders for Marriage Equality has been compiling a great deal of religious support for the measure, both from clergy and fro…

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…

When Catholics Were the Muslims

By Patricia Miller

…zed, afraid, or totally indifferent”: I believe the Catholic population of Baltimore, with less than one quarter of the aggregate wealth, enterprise, and intelligence of this good city, has for years exerted tenfold the influence over the press, that all the remaining three-quarters ever did. And in the parallels between Breckinridge and Trump lies a warning. Breckinridge regularly made rhetorical attacks against a Carmelite convent in Baltimore,…

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…

‘Religious Freedom’ Rally Sets Stage for 1st Amendment Collision

By Sarah Posner

…air. When Bishop Mitchell Rozanski, the Seaton Vicar of the Archdiocese of Baltimore, led the group in Catholic prayer, virtually everyone in the crowd prayed aloud along with him. The mention of Baltimore Archbishop William Lori, the chair of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops Ad Hoc Committee on Religious Liberty, drew approving applause. Joining Rozanski as speakers were an Episcopal priest, the Rev. Terrance Sweeney, and a Methodist ministe…

Is The Episcopal Church Driving Drunk?

By J. Terry Todd

…e given to a fund set up for Palermo’s children. It’s also a point made by Baltimore cyclists on New Year’s Day, during a memorial ride that drew 1500 bikers. Fittingly enough, the ride began in the parking lot of Baltimore’s Episcopal Cathedral of the Incarnation, and made its way to the place where Palermo was struck, now a roadside altar with a ghost bike marking the spot. Correction: Maryland Bishop Eugene Taylor Sutton was initially identifie…