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Bishops Reject Proposed Compromise with Obama on Contraception Coverage

By Sarah Posner

…showing that most Catholics agree with the Obama administration rule, and signals from David Axelrod and Obama spiritual advisor Joel Hunter that perhaps there was a compromise in the offing. But the primary compromise proposed, known as the Hawaii compromise, has been declared unacceptable by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. The National Catholic Register reports: [A] key official in the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops says the Hawai…

Ryan-DeLauro’s Common Ground on Abortion is in Religious Territory

By Sarah Posner

…ns. Stigmatizing Abortion? The reluctance of reproductive health groups to sign on to CLURT, and to endorse the previous version of Ryan-DeLauro, stemmed in large part from what might broadly be called stigmatization concerns. The CLURT report, as Catholics for Choice former president Frances Kissling said last year, “confessed the sins of the left. But it never said and you, on the right, better get over your hostility to secularism.” Use of term…

O(Pinn)ion: Reevaluating a Faith-Based Nation

By Anthony B. Pinn

…it answered: What is the real look of this inclusion? What are substantive signs of it? If all these various traditions are given equal footing in the public arena, in spite of their profound differences, what exactly is religion? If there is no clear distinction between the “sacred” and the “secular,” how does one define religion? How does one recognize and respond to “religiously”-motivated opinions and practices? These are important but frustra…

LGBTQI ‘Equality Act’ Enjoys Broad Support; There’s Just One Problem

By Sunnivie Brydum

…hy of equal protection under the law? And would Donald Trump ever consider signing such a bill, when it would directly undermine so many of the domestic policy proposals his right-wing cabinet and advisers have implemented? For supporters of the bill, the best hope might lie in the knowledge that, more than ideological consistency or even appeasing his base, this President loves “winning.” And if he did sign The Equality Act into law, there would…

Conservatives Accuse Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori of Misconduct

By Elizabeth Drescher

…opal Church: You might be an Anglican schismatic if… 1. You’ve changed the sign out front from “The Episcopal Church of St. Whatsit” to “The Anglican Church of St. Whatsit.” Or, 2. You’re now under the authority of an Anglican bishop in, say, Nigeria rather than the Episcopal one installed in the cathedral nearest your church. Or, 3. Your Vacation Bible School features a rollicking game of “Pin the Tail on the Antichrist” in which the cartoon imag…

Conservatives Waiting for Palin Rapture

By Anthea Butler

…s Gideon’s Fleece bus tour of earlier this year did not seem to give her a sign to run, and now the footage resembles highlights from a retirement reel, rather than the fodder for a crop of Palin 2012 commercials. Put this together with the doubling down of conservatives like Ann Coulter, who said this about Palin on the O’Reilly factor: She is “The One to a certain segment of right wingers”, and “No conservative on TV will criticize Palin, becaus…

Lady Gaga’s Secret Religion

By Jeremy Biles

…fully exposed; it’s all right there, on the surface, and we are all complicit in it. Within Lady Gaga’s simulated reality, there are no shadows; she exists solely in the spotlight of fame, amidst stylized signs evacuated of hidden content. Lady Gaga’s secret is hidden in plain sight. She reveals that today it is not signs or symbols that rule the world and control our minds. It is style….

Angry Voters, Right-Wing Populism, & Racial Violence: People of Faith Can Help Break the Linkages

By Chip Berlet

…to be held accountable for their racism. Too many people are hearing this coded rhetoric and deciding that the real problem with the economy must be folks of color, immigrants, and the Jews.” During the last period of Patriot and militia growth in the mid-1990s, Ward witnessed this coded racist rhetoric being tested in the margins of the right-wing media, though it has since moved into the mainstream. In the past year I’ve interviewed dozens of a…

First U.S. Visit of the Virgin Mary Confirmed in Wisconsin

By Lewis Wallace

…s outside of Green Bay and over a mile from even the smallest town, a tiny sign at a remote intersection points visitors toward Chapel Drive, site of the Shrine of Our Lady of Good Help, where a young Belgian woman experienced apparitions of the Virgin Mary more than 150 years ago. Behind the chapel and small gift shop, visitors can tramp through the snow to a grotto and Stations of the Cross, passing on their way the burial place of Adele Brise,…

Diplomatic Suckerhood: Why Israel Is Fighting Toward its Own Demise

By Ira Chernus

…s more, many early Zionists were ashamed of their weakness, seeing it as a sign that Jews were “abnormal.” They expected to escape all those feelings once they had their own independent nation, with its own armed forces. It doesn’t seem to have worked out that way. They have the power, to be sure (by various accounts, the fourth, fifth, or sixth most effective military in the world) which they frequently put on display. But all that expenditure of…