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The (Mostly Catholic) Anti-Abortion Roe v. Wade Schlep

By Mary E. Hunt

…the United Methodist Church but no official standing, sponsored a worship service before the march. Reports indicate that a mere seventeen people were in attendance, including some who are pro-choice. It was a day for papal flags, banners like “Archdiocese of Chicago,” handmade life-size crosses, and even a gold crozier that someone brought along to add gravitas, or maybe just in place of a cane. It was hard to make out from my perch in an office…

“You Lie!”: Messing with American Mass

By Ben Brazil

…lass have relied on it when they called on the nation to pay more than lip service to our highest ideals. In fact, it was his voicing of these sentiments at the 2004 Democratic National Convention that launched Barack Obama onto the national political stage. Responding to “spin masters” and “negative ad peddlers,” he said: …there is not a liberal America and a conservative America—there is the United States of America. There is not a Black America…

Skip the Sexy Nun Costume This Halloween

By Liz Bucar and Emma Cieslik

…rated individuals like women religious, who devote themselves to religious service, and wear specific clothing as part of their religious calling. Before the profession of religious vows, Sister Allison tells us, there’s a ceremony attended by the community where a new sister is blessed with special prayers and receives her habit for the first time. Sr. Orianne Pietra René, another sister of the Daughters of Saint Paul, explains that the habit “mu…

Notify This! Vatican Bungles Response to Sexual Ethics Book

By Mary E. Hunt

…han, a Daughter of Charity, and Sister Simone Campbell, a Sister of Social Service, parted company with the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops not once, but twice, in the health care debates. Their Catholicism trumped the Catholicism of the bishops in the minds of legislators and perhaps of President Obama himself. So it is with Margaret and Elizabeth that their well-reasoned, experience-encompassing, pastorally sensitive work simply tru…

Gay Lawmakers Paving the Way for Equality

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…olonial Baptist Church in Randallstown, Md., told Baptist Press — the news service of the Southern Baptist Convention — that he resents the fight for marriage equality being compared with the civil rights movement and instead calls it an attempt “to create a system and special laws for a group of citizens that are living in immorality and wanting to force all of us to embrace that as if it is morally equivalent, that is wrong.” A recent Pew Poll,…

Christian Pol, Attacked for Opposing ‘In God We Trust’ in School, Talks Church and State

By Frederick Clarkson

…holars and theologians of our time. He obviously takes politics and public service seriously as well. As a legislator for 30 years, he’s become well known as a leader in the fights for marriage equality, environmental protection, campaign finance reform, and universal health care. Senator Marty agreed to talk with RD about what this episode tells us about religion and public life in the age of Trump. RD: During the floor debate, and in your appear…

Postcard from the Vatican

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…ts own ATM machines (with prompts in ecclesiastical Latin), its own postal service; it even has its own gasoline station, set prettily next to an ornate Renaissance foundation. The Vatican also presides over its own courts and its own laws. Such “canon law,” as it is called, forms the very heart of Roman Catholic ethics, as it also informs the administrative handling of cases such as those initiated by these recent revelations of widespread priest…

The Jewish Daily Forward is Neither Jewish, Nor Daily (But Still Forward). Discuss!

By Brook Wilensky-Lanford

…n the Jewish media universe, as the Forward itself reported, even the wire services newspapers rely on are subject to politicization—the Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA), founded in 1917, has new, more vocally right-leaning competition as of 2011 in the Jewish News Service. One might expect a certain flavor of conservatism from The Forward, a 118-year-old legacy newspaper, that was originally (and still is) published in Yiddish, a language that few…

Obama’s Religion Ambassador: Inexperienced?

By Anthea Butler

…leader with a passion for human rights and an impressive record of public service.” Coming from the Secretary of State, that is high praise indeed. Yet praise is not enough to turn a motivational preacher into a cogent, respected ambassador for religious freedom. President Obama’s appointment of a woman with no discernible training in diplomacy, interreligious dialogue, or strategic international policy is disappointing. From my perspective, this…

America No Longer a Christian Nation: And Other Critical Data from 2015

By Daniel Cox and Joanna Piacenza

…of Christians—oppose allowing a small business owner to refuse products or services to gay and lesbian people, even if doing so violates their religious beliefs. On the other hand, roughly one-third (36%) of the public support such a policy. Majorities of many religious traditions—including Catholics (59%), non-white Protestants (54%), and white mainline Protestants (53%)—are opposed to these so-called “religious freedom” laws, with one important…