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Neither The Joker Nor Godlessness Drove Batman Shooting

By Jeffrey Scholes

…for the Aurora, Colorado theater shootings in the early morning of Friday, July 20, there is no shortage of pundits offering their own explanations. Maybe the alleged shooter, James Holmes, was depressed after scoring low on exams in his PhD program at the University of Colorado. Or he must have had a rough upbringing. Or the common refrain: he’s simply psychotic, and no verifiable reason for the shooting will ever be discovered. The responses fro…

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

By Kaya Oakes

…1898. Like most dioceses, San Francisco has seen a precipitous drop in the number of seminarians in formation, and there are currently only 93 students enrolled. The Sulpicians were informed in October of last year “that we are no longer invited to provide Sulpician administrative leadership to St Patrick’s,” and the rector, Fr. James McKearney, was forced to resign, in a decision that “just came out of the blue for reasons that are still not clea…

Obama Under Fire From Civil Liberties Groups Over Faith-Based Policies

By Sarah Posner

…eacted negatively after Obama delivered that speech in Zanesville, Ohio in July 2008. Just as the campaign was trying to court these religious voters away from voting Republican, leaders complained to the campaign that such efforts to protect the civil liberties of beneficiaries, employees, and applicants would eliminate their interest in having a faith-based initiative at all. When Obama took office and created his faith-based office, he announce…

Muslim Stowaways
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Titanic: “Eurabian” Alarmism 2.0

By Haroon Moghul

…but rather with who wields that force and against whom. It is true that a number of Muslims hold uncomfortable political views, even on matters of violence. It is also true, however, that most human beings generally speaking do the same. Many Muslims saw the 1990s sanctions on Iraq as horrific; in the United States, our leadership didn’t have too much of a problem with them—even defending them as painfully necessary. When asked her reaction to ha…

The ‘C’ Word: What We’re Missing When We Talk About ‘White Privilege’

By Murali Balaji

…believe in him and want to see him with a second term, and of course that number fluctuates. So I think that he’s able to galvanize support by reminding people of a time that actually didn’t exist in our country. But they’ve romanticized the 1940s and 50s and, you know, it’s as if there weren’t people of color here during that time. When you look at Leave it to Beaver and when you look at some of the other shows that are indicative of that time p…

Bangladesh’s Atheist Blogger Still Wants to Talk

By Austin Dacey

…alth grounds in late June but then taken into pre-trial custody again from July 29 to August 7. Charged with “hurting religious sentiments” under the Information and Communication Technology Act of 2006 (recently amended so as to limit due process rights), Asif faces a possible 10-year jail sentence and fine of roughly $130,000. “It is not very safe to go outside of home nowadays as my name is on the hit list of some fundamentalist groups,” Asif t…

Latest Diatribe on Francis and Latin Mass in the Times Launders the History — and Troubling Elements — of the ‘Tradition’

By Matthew Gabriele

…points one at a time. First, desire for the Latin Mass is not large—as of July 2021 (when Pope Francis issued his statement in opposition), only a bit under 4% of all American parishes offered it. This particular reaction to the reforms of Vatican II is, and has consistently been, a small, fringe movement. Second, the priest faced away from the congregation during the Latin Mass because the congregation was (and remains, honestly) irrelevant to i…

Romney Braces for Perry Testosterone Challenge; Huntsman Reboots

By Joanna Brooks

…amassing the cash to make it happen. As we like to remember (especially on July 24—Happy Pioneer Day to RD’s Mormon readers!), persistence is a Mormon trait. Except when it’s not. We’ll see how how far pioneer persistence takes Jon Huntsman Jr., who is off to what might be called a rocky start in his quest for the Republican nomination. Huntsman, despite lining up a few endorsements, has made little statistical progress among New Hampshire voters….

The Pope’s Gay Priests

By William J. Dohar

Only a couple of days before his late-July press conference on the Rome-bound flight from Rio, Pope Francis urged thousands of young people gathered for World Youth Day to kick up some dust in their local churches. “We knew that in Rio there would be great disorder,” the pope said referring to the natural chaos of crowds, “but I want trouble in the dioceses . . . I want to get rid of clericalism, the mundane, this closing ourselves off within our…

Missing the Forest for the Witches

By Joseph Laycock

…re alarming source of censorship: a software company called Netsweeper. In July 2010, Hunter attempted to use a library computer to research her Native American heritage. But the library had blocked every site she attempted to access. Glenda Wofford, director of the Salem Library, explained that Netsweeper, the library’s Internet filtering service, blocks all of these sites because they are categorized as “occult” and “criminal skills” sites. Nets…