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      If the Media Are Reluctant to Properly Label the GOP’s Racist, Christian Nationalist Ideologies, We’ll Have Trouble Hanging on to Democracy
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      ‘Pregnant Women’ or ‘People Who Can Get Pregnant’: How Do We Balance Recognition of Anti-Abortion Misogyny with the Erasure of Transmasculine People?
    • Who’s ‘Really’ Jewish: the Sefardi Floridian, the Ashkenazi Californian, or the New York Jew By Choice? ‘Authenticity’ is a Trap
      Who’s ‘Really’ Jewish: the Sefardi Floridian, the Ashkenazi Californian, or the New York Jew By Choice? ‘Authenticity’ is a Trap
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      What the Hell is Wrong With Us? A Muslim Response to America’s Failure to Change
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      Who’s Really Politicizing School Shootings?
    • As Catholic Bishops Punish Dissent, Rosemary Radford Ruether’s Life and Legacy Show the Way Forward
      As Catholic Bishops Punish Dissent, Rosemary Radford Ruether’s Life and Legacy Show the Way Forward
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      Who’s Really Politicizing School Shootings?
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      Buffalo and Uvalde Both Appear to Have Involved the AR-15, the Rifle Revered by the Christian Right
    • It’s the Theology, Stupid: Why the Shocking SBC Report is Anything But Surprising
      It’s the Theology, Stupid: Why the Shocking SBC Report is Anything But Surprising
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    • Who’s Really Politicizing School Shootings?
      Who’s Really Politicizing School Shootings?
    • Buffalo and Uvalde Both Appear to Have Involved the AR-15, the Rifle Revered by the Christian Right
      Buffalo and Uvalde Both Appear to Have Involved the AR-15, the Rifle Revered by the Christian Right
    • It’s the Theology, Stupid: Why the Shocking SBC Report is Anything But Surprising
      It’s the Theology, Stupid: Why the Shocking SBC Report is Anything But Surprising
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    • Putin Theo-Propaganda Minister Kirill Invokes 600 Years of History to Lay Claim to Ukraine — Here’s What it Means
      Putin Theo-Propaganda Minister Kirill Invokes 600 Years of History to Lay Claim to Ukraine — Here’s What it Means
    • How Belief in Moscow as ‘The New Rome’ Explains Kirill’s Astonishing Declaration That ‘Russia Has Never Attacked Anyone’
      How Belief in Moscow as ‘The New Rome’ Explains Kirill’s Astonishing Declaration That ‘Russia Has Never Attacked Anyone’
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      Is This Tiny Divided Orthodox Nation the Next Front in Russia’s Religious War?
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Angela Bonavoglia

Angela Bonavoglia is the author of Good Catholic Girls: How Women Are Leading the Fight to Change the Church and The Choices We Made: 25 Women and Men Speak Out About Abortion (foreword by Gloria Steinem). Former Ms. contributing editor, Bonavoglia’s work has appeared in the Chicago Tribune, The Nation, Salon Cosmopolitan, Newsday, The National Catholic Reporter, and more. For more, go to: www.angelabonavoglia.com

History/Theology, Sex/Gender/JusticeAugust 23, 2018

Why Changes in Reporting Won’t Fix the Catholic Church’s Sexual Abuse Problem

By Angela Bonavoglia

Even if the Church implemented safeguards it wouldn’t be enough. That’s because the Catholic clergy’s sexual crimes against children are a consequence, not a cause, of the church’s criminality.

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(A)theologies, ArchiveApril 6, 2015

Why Go to Church If You Don’t Believe Anymore?

By Angela Bonavoglia

A Good Friday post-mortem, as it were.

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(A)theologies, ArchiveMay 14, 2014

Debating Death: Is It Really the End?

By Angela Bonavoglia

Death is not final. Last week, four scientific big thinkers settled into their seats on…

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(A)theologies, New BooksMay 6, 2014

Barbara Ehrenreich’s ‘Wild God’ is Not Here to Help

By Angela Bonavoglia

The author may have seen the world burst into flame, but there was no Old Testament deity hiding in the bushes.

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StoriesJanuary 20, 2014

In Sexual Abuse Hearing UN Calls Holy See on Girls’ Reproductive Rights

By Angela Bonavoglia

The fact that these issues were mentioned is noteworthy because the church’s history of child abuse has taken many forms, many of which are tied to secrecy, sexual hypocrisy and misogyny.

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