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What Does the Catholic Church’s Patriarchal Structure Have to Do with the Failure of the Amazon Synod?

By Mary E. Hunt

…ideas, and make changes that could move the Roman Catholic monolith into a new century (I leave it to the reader to speculate on which century). At worst, these meetings become one more occasion to reinforce and reinscribe a hierarchical model of church with bishops in league with the pontiff to make few if any substantive structural changes, indeed to keep change at bay as it turns out too often. Regrettably, this was what happened in Rome of lat…

Well, the Harris-Trump Debate Happened — Now Enjoy Your Freedom and Choose Wisely

By Mary Rambaran-Olm

…n’t have a plan.” Harris and her running mate, Tim Walz, are basically the new Riggs and Murtaugh of DC because they’re gun owners. Harris’ “girl, what?” face was unstoppable. Trump is actually pleased that Harris is Black and doesn’t really care either way. Trump had more zingers than people will give him credit for, particularly the “I’m talking now, if you don’t mind, please” line that he weaponized against a Harris interruption—a callback to a…

International ‘Pro-Family’ Summit Calls for New Anti-Gay Laws: Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…movement, and since they were not admitting LGBT students then he went to New York to be ordained at the Jewish Theological Seminary that was ordaining openly gay and lesbian students in the Conservative Jewish movement. However, Israel’s Masorti Movement changed its own stance two years ago allowing for Israeli-trained lesbian and gay rabbis to join the Conservative movement in the country and committed itself to supporting and embracing gay and…

Gay Mormons Tie the Knot

By Johnny Townsend

…es are active Mormons. My uncle served a mission to Finland, my cousins to Venezuela and Minnesota. My father is a high priest, my aunt a former Relief Society president. Gary’s is an old Salt Lake family with generations in the Church. One of his brothers is a branch president of a Spanish branch in Salt Lake, and the other is a former bishop and current temple worker. Gary’s nephews and nieces have served missions in Ireland, Italy, Argentina, E…

Gulf Oil Spill May be “Act of God”

By Johnny P. Flynn

…t we also know will never happen. In 2007 the American Indian president of Venezuela nationalized the last of the oil fields in the Orinoco River Basin with the words that “petroleum now belongs to all Venezuelans.” More than five hundred years before that announcement Christopher Columbus saw the mud from the Orinoco in the water of the Caribbean and imagined that he’d discovered the Garden of Eden. If I could be so bold as to fathom the mind of…

At the UN, Conservative Christian Agenda Cloaked in Human Rights Language

By Austin Dacey

…use. Slater’s Family Watch International (FWI) has been deeply involved in promoting abstinence-and fidelity-only initiatives in Uganda and has praised Nigeria—where same-sex couples can face up to 14 years in prison or stoning at the hands of Sharia courts—as “a strong role model” for other regional governments “on how to hold on to their family values despite intense international pressure.” The Human Rights Campaign has reported that FWI’s annu…

Newt’s Obama-Bashing Trinity

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…ing foreign policy approach. This last issue has been the issue du jour as Newt makes the round of talk shows and television news. His talking points are impressive: The President permitted Chavez to use him for a photo op. The President bowed to the Saudi king. The President made concessions to Fidel Castro with absolutely nothing to show for it. North Korea fires a rocket illegally and the President does nothing. In short, Newt Gingrich argues t…

City of God: Christian Citizenship in Postwar Guatemala City

By Kevin O?Neill

…and civil war as well as today’s return of the political Left in Bolivia, Venezuela, and Nicaragua. Nonetheless, with buzz and excitement, thousands of Pentecostal youths gathered under the banner, “I am the revolution” to discuss the future of the country and their responsibility to save Guatemala one cleansing prayer at a time. The idea is that individuals must take control of themselves in order to take control of Guatemala. It’s a powerful, i…

Christians of Color Are Rejecting “Colonial Christianity” and Reclaiming Ancestral Spiritualities

By Deborah Jian Lee

…panish mystic St. Teresa of Avila and raised by a white Catholic family in New Jersey, Pasquale Mateus has always felt drawn to mystical spirituality. In her twenties, yoga and meditation became a lifeline as she healed from sexual trauma. But because these traditions didn’t speak her religious language, she turned to the Christian contemplative movement. There she experienced “this deep connection to God in the faith that I learned, in the dialec…

The Religious Right’s Apocalyptic Visions of an Obama Presidency

By Bill Berkowitz

…Obama “deepen[ed] U.S. ties and U.S. trade with Communist regimes in Cuba, Venezuela, and Bolivia.” In the Middle East, “in mid-2010 Iran launched a nuclear bomb which exploded in the middle of Tel Aviv, destroying much of that city.” Israel was forced to “cede huge amounts of territory to the Palestinians,” and now “its future remains uncertain.” Finally, there is a “single provider” health care system built along the lines of those in the United…