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Union Busting for God: Catholic Colleges Invoke “Religious Freedom” to Violate Catholic Teaching

By Kaya Oakes

…l average of 65 percent, but still problematic for a religious order whose most famous member decries materialist greed on a regular basis. At Jesuit run Seattle University, adjuncts voted to form a union in 2014, but according to the Seattle Times, “ballots were locked up” while the university appealed to the NLRB on religious freedom grounds. According to Seattle University professor Emily Lieb, in April of 2015, “some 20 faculty, students, and…

Distant Churches and the Isolated Poor: Lessons from Katrina, Ten Years Later

By R. Drew Smith

…re resourceful sectors of the population, and the closing or distancing of most institutional operations, are dynamics reminiscent of the large scale suburban flight, economic divestment, and governmental indifference experienced within many American cities—and especially within the poorer neighborhoods of those cities in the past one hundred years. Former industrial cities with once sizable populations of blue-collar African-American laborers wer…

By The Numbers: Jeb Opposes Francis on Climate Change at His Peril

By Daniel Schultz

…’re just not sure. The numbers attributing warming to human activity rise among moderates and liberals, of course, but they’re not going to vote for Jeb anyway. There is one number Bush might want to worry about, though: 85. That’s the percent of Hispanic Catholics who think climate change is a real problem: For a guy who’s been touting his potential to draw Spanish-speaking voters into the Republican fold, this is a sticky situation. Hispanic Cat…

The Catholic Apocalypse Cometh

By Patricia Miller

…determines which way the election will go—was especially striking because most polls until just before the election found Catholics more reluctant than evangelicals to support Trump. The loss of the Catholic vote is also somewhat disruptive to the narrative that Trump won mainly by appealing to downscale white voters in the Rust Belt. While Trump clearly won these voters, as the New York Times noted, “Trump won his biggest margins among middle-in…

The Rage Behind Outrage

By Becky Garrison

…s and lesbians in order to maintain and gain power. Why didn’t you include more Democrats, cabinet members, and UN members? We looked at a wider range of subjects, but again the issue was could we get the substantiation. But we were also looking at people at a certain level of power. Mike Rogers of BlogActive.com has at times outed staff members, and we decided that was not something we were going to do. What kind of public exposure do you want fo…

Let’s Get Lost: Mapping Religion in the 21st Century

By Spencer Dew

…ry ten years, publishing data in various forms, including maps displaying “most popular religion, by county.” A Washington Post article on the project, while taking no issue with the value of “religious participation,” does not mention that this measure “was lowest in California’s Alpine County (4.3 percent), Hawaii’s Kalawao County (3.3 percent) and Nevada’s Esmeralda County (3.1 percent). The latter two have incredibly small populations, so are…

RD News Round-Up—Nov. 4, 2008

By Bill Berkowitz

…ve director of Pastor John Hagee’s Christians United for Israel—one of the most prominent Christian Zionist organizations in the United States—taskes umbrage at Hubers’ comment: “To say we’re dehumanizing Israelis and Palestinians with our support for Israel dehumanizes us.” Christian and Jewish leaders in Southern California have formed an organization called Christians Concerned About Christian Zionism. They held a conference on the issue: “Chri…

Scott Walker Loves Jesus. That’s Nice

By Peter Laarman

…e Kohler was shipping the work to new non-union facilities in the South. Just last year the current magnate—yet another Herbert Kohler—pushed through a greatly weakened contract for the small number of Local 833 members still employed in Wisconsin. I say all this to make the point that American business and its “business-friendly” sock puppets like Gov. Scott Walker will stop at nothing—nothing—to roll back worker rights and worker security. So it…

Obama Caves on (Another) Contraception Exemption

By Patricia Miller

…his cumbersome procedure have the makings of a bureaucratic nightmare, but most insurers are incorporated separately in each state in which they operate and often under slightly different names… and I doubt most have a dedicated office to contact when religious conservatives make their own decisions about women’s access to contraception. Plus, it sets the dangerous precedent that religious objections to government mandates are so precious that the…

Pope and Russian Orthodox Patriarch Declare Shared View of Marriage & Family; Government & Muslim Officials Ramp Up Anti-LGBT Rhetoric in Indonesia; Australian Religious Leaders Ask Parliament to Act on Marriage Equality; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…nion on legalising same-sex marriage varies among people of faith. In fact most polls find that a majority favour change,” the letter reads. “Yet the negative case will be put by religious groups and leaders who claim to speak on behalf of people of faith generally, or religious institutions as a whole.” The letter from the religious leaders said a plebiscite campaign could harms LGBTI people and religious communities: “A volatile, public and poli…