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Hold Your Applause: Potential Changes to Roles of Catholic Women and LGBTQ+ People May Just Be Vatican Breadcrumbing

By Mary E. Hunt

…us congregations are not lay people, and leaves all the final decisions in papal hands. Some people have found it a useful framework for raising important questions—notably some Germans who have progressive views and the money to make them stick. However, many bishops around the world took a pass on the whole thing. The Synod budget is minuscule if existent at all; apparently the Holy Spirit’s isn’t a union shop. The Synod texts, including the rec…

Even After an Obama Victory Reports of the Death of the Religious Right are Greatly Exaggerated

By Bill Berkowitz

…ant to Bush for faith-based initiatives, returning to government in some capacity; he was thrilled when Obama announced his plan to actually expand Bush’s program, which Kuo turned against because he saw it as too partisan—and too modest. “The religious right of the future will have a much bigger, more sophisticated, and more international agenda,” Sharlet pointed out. “Much of it will revolve around the same issues that animate liberals and lefti…

Religious Kids Are More Selfish: The Stickers Don’t Lie

By Michael Schulson

…wo. Introduce a plot twist. Tell the kid that not everyone in school could participate in the sticker bonanza. Fortunately, there is a chance to share: the kid can pick between zero and 10 of her favorite, cream-of-the-crop stickers, and set them aside in an envelope. That envelope will go to another person in the school. Afterward, the kid will walk out with whatever stickers she chose to keep. In order to keep things nice and relaxed, this shari…

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With ‘Vermin’ Remark Trump Crosses Fully into Nazi Territory

By Robert P. Jones

…matter. He is the presumed nominee of one of America’s two major political parties; no other Republican candidate is within striking distance. In virtually every national poll—and in recent battleground state polls—a two-way election between Trump and Joe Biden is a tossup.* In PRRI’s recent American Values Survey, conducted in partnership with the Brookings Institution, nearly all voters who supported Trump in 2020 (94%) said they planned to supp…

RD News Round-Up: October 27, 2008

By Bill Berkowitz

…ds… The guide also includes a summary of the platforms of the Democrat and Republican Party, as well as votes and positions on the issues, showing where Sen. McCain and Sen. Obama stand on key issues.” Videos about Obama include “Obama refuses to salute the flag”; “Why does Obama Carry A Hindu Monkey Charm”; “Senator Barack Obama’s Faith: Is It Black Liberation Theology?” while McCain’s side of the ledger includes “McCain discusses his beliefs abo…

Black Churches are Burning: Is It the 1990s All Over Again?

By Katie Day

…re were almost 900 reported cases of church arson in the late 1990s—a huge number compared to what we’ve seen in the last two weeks. A second difference is that of public response. In 1995-96, there was a unique alliance of actors creating “perfect storm” conditions. Black churches had long been the targets of racial hatred. But it was when Green Bay Packers player, Reggie White, spoke in an interview during the Super Bowl of 1996 about the arson…

Washington Post Critic’s Coded Racial Comments On New ABC Host Christiane Amanpour

By Hussein Rashid

…ention of the color of her hair is just icing on the cake. In contemporary parlance, anti-Israel equates to terrorist sympathizer. These charges are also being hurled at President Obama and VP Biden. Shales’ opinion of Amanpour is based on the rhetoric of racial and religious purity. It treats Israel as separate from Israelis, who are Jewish. By splashing in the muddy waters of hate, no matter how coded, he not only attacks Muslims but makes the p…

Rick Warren Busts a Gut Over Cultural Revolution

By Rob Shryock

…ng funny without offending someone these days in our PC society etc.” The number of supportive and sometimes racist posts outnumber those who advice caution. I can’t suspect such hideous posts are all from Saddleback membership. I’m sure quite a number are. It’s as disturbing as it is disgusting. Warren commented on Tsang’s article, “Thanks so much for teaching us! It was removed instantly.” However, Warren did not get around to posting a form…

Growing Up Gay in 666: Fred Phelps in Retrospect

By Scott Blaine Swenson

…insults, and Nate Phelps is concerned for his nieces and nephews forced to parrot their parents’ vulgarities, Rev. Schlingensiepen sees a childlike insecurity within Fred Phelps that took hold in his youth. “He’s basically an insecure guy who created, or fell in with, a series of interpretations that are intended to justify his inner rage, mask his inner fear, and by picking controversial social issues, justify his violence,” Schlingensiepen says….

“That Guy In Rome”: A Catholic Town in Idaho Where The Pope is a Heretic

By Jason Wilson

…a perceived “dechristianization” of France—and Europe. At the level of the papacy, it resulted in a string of “anti-modernist encyclicals from Gregory XVI’s Mirari Vos (1832) onwards.” But it also meant that priests like Lefebvre were formed in a conservative, even reactionary milieu. During the 1970s and 1980s Lefevbre was gradually estranged from Rome due to repeated conflict with popes, and his adherence to the Latin Mass and traditional doctri…