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Synod or Sin Oddly: Vatican Encourages Catholics to ‘Walk Together’ as Long as the Hierarchy Leads the Way and Decides the Route

By Mary E. Hunt

…friends, especially those who aren’t connected to parishes, to keep their phones open. At their last meeting in June 2021, the US Catholic Bishops did not discuss the Synod at all, even though they knew it was scheduled to start four months later. They’ve set aside a full forty-five minutes on the agenda of their November 2021 meeting to discuss what’s promoted as the most life-changing process for the Catholic community worldwide since Vatican I…

Vaccine Mandates are Constitutional; Religious Exemptions are Unnecessary and Harmful

By Andrew L. Seidel

…e Spirit of 1776 was as much about science as it was about freedom. George Washington required the entire Continental Army to get inoculated against smallpox—the first army-wide vaccination in history. Mortality dropped from 30% to 1%. Mandatory vaccinations just might have won America its freedom. From that auspicious beginning, Americans have let vaccine science protect our soldiers in the military, our students in school, our healthcare workers…

Whatever Happens with ‘Roe’ It’ll Be The Consequence of Six Conservative Justices’ Belief in Authoritarian Lies

By John Stoehr

…reme Court has just two days to decide Roe’s fate and barely anyone in the Washington press corps has bothered to take notice. While I yield to no one in my zest for criticizing members of the press corps, I think there’s a good reason for their lack of attention. It’s the same reason the Democrats are not as mobilized as they should be—why they haven’t spent the capital necessary to codify Roe, to turn it into statutory law. The reason is pretty…

Praying for a Victory: Packed Supreme Court Takes Up Yet Another Christian Nationalist Cause

By Andrew L. Seidel

…ality. It’s fought to keep evolution out of public schools; and put Bible classes, Jesus portraits, and school-imposed prayer in public schools. That last effort is what Kennedy v. Bremerton School District is all about. I first wrote about this case back in 2015, focusing on how the Institute doesn’t mind taking losing cases because they’ll keep them alive for years and fundraise off their false narratives. And if the courts follow precedent and…

Confronting the Rise in Conspiracy Thinking … With Wisdom Literature

By Daniel Schultz

…on, then the political equivalent of a coal seam burning underground: long-lasting, difficult to extinguish, constantly undermining the foundations of everything on the surface. Commentators often marvel at the daffiness of the ideas on display in these coalescing movements. How is it possible to believe that Donald Trump won the 2020 election, that vaccines will implant microchips giving Bill Gates mind control, that a secret pedophile ring is re…

Will ‘Conjuring 3’ Influence Real-Life Events Via the ‘Exorcist Effect’?

By Eric Harrelson and Joseph P. Laycock

…m a series of four unofficial “minor exorcisms” on David—the last of which lasted nearly seven hours. The Warrens used the opportunity to make recordings and Polaroids. Johnson tried to help by challenging the demon to leave David and possess him instead. This, it was claimed, is how he became possessed. Ed Warren explained Johnson’s foolhardy decision to The Washington Post: “It’s just one of those things you never do. Not if you know anything ab…

Guns, God and Government — The Coming of White Minority Rule?

By A. E. Brooks-Key

…War in America: A Wake-Up Call, which included these words: “… in just the last decade we have seen some gruesome manifestations of racial and ethnic hatred in America—literally, murder in the streets, blood spilling everywhere. We have seen political fights in Congress over who should get the most of America’s goodies—fights that have caused shutdowns of the federal government and mind-boggling gridlock in Washington. One senses that our nation i…

Red Pop and Freedom: How (And How Not) to Celebrate Juneteenth, a New Federal Holiday

By A. E. Brooks-Key

…and their own lived experiences in antebellum America. While Frederick Douglass’ 4th of July oration is perhaps the most famous it is by no means the only address. African-American orators took the holiday as an opportunity to address this contradiction. As historian Jonathan Lande argues in a 2020 Washington Post commentary, “The Fourth of July is a Black American Holiday,” African-American orators and activists have long used the 4th of July to…

We Can’t Spiritualize Our Way out of American Polarization

By Chrissy Stroop

…licals in particular, legacy media outlets like the New York Times and the Washington Post have recently begun to improve on their longstanding pattern of printing softball takes that “portrayed what is an essentially authoritarian religious and political demographic in an unduly positive light, whitewashing the centrality of white supremacism and patriarchy in evangelicalism.” Such uncritical writing helps to normalize extremism, but, as the pers…

A Note To Churches During Pride: If You’re Not LGBTQ-Affirming, Keep Your Water

By Chrissy Stroop

…e practice certainly hasn’t died out. And last month, Christopher Smith, a Washington, DC-based Jesuit scholastic* who’s fully on board with the Catholic teaching that “homogenital” acts and transgender identities are sinful, took to Twitter to suggest that Catholics should do the same thing: https://twitter.com/Chris_SmithsJ/status/1397528844748345348?s=20 Christians always have a visible presence at Pride. Seeing those who are there to represent…