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Sex Abuse in the Catholic Church: When Adults are Victims

By Kathryn Joyce

…n Diego, a pastoral and family care center dedicated to “the formation and promotion of Catholic leaders in the Hispanic community.” In her lawsuit, Birge charges that Hernandez was such an involved participant in Centro San Juan that its Director, Luis Soto, referred to him as an employee. Hernandez, who was trained at the Jesuit School of Theology in Berkeley, California, and the Mexican-American Catholic College in San Antonio, was also the 200…

Controversial Mary Statue Weeps Because ‘We’re Killing This World’

By Joseph Laycock

…member of his parish. He added, “If you want to believe [Ibrahim], you are free to believe her.” However, for some pilgrims, Father Ayoub’s answer simply isn’t good enough. At least one woman, who managed to get his unlisted number, screamed at him demanding that he confirm the miracle. While Marian apparitions always bring controversy, this is especially so in urban areas where neighbors rarely appreciate pilgrims blocking traffic and saying the…

Why I Won’t Leave the Mormon Church Alone

By Holly Welker

…ommunity. In The Drowned and the Saved, Primo Levi states, “Changing moral codes is always costly; all heretics, apostates, and dissidents know this.” Mormons who leave the church face dire consequences: damnation, separation for all eternity from loved ones, shunning and judgment in this life, as well as irritated, self-righteous assertions that we shouldn’t even discuss parts of our own history. It’s hard to invite all that, and one main reason…

2010: What Did We Believe In?

By Gary Laderman

…virulent that hatred has become. Americans are willing to throw religious freedom and tolerance out the window, a posture all too familiar in the nation’s history and sadly contradictory to the sacred principles upon which this country was founded. Opposition to the construction of a Muslim community center in New York; the brutal attack on a Muslim cabbie; the proposed burning of Qur’ans by a small church that created a media sensation; the pass…

Zen and the Art of the Sex Scandal

By Gary Gach

…r life, respect for property, sobriety, etc. all seem identical to Western codes of conduct, they arise differently in Buddhism. The Decalogue was revealed by divine commandment. In Buddhism, there’s no creator deity. Nor is there any central Buddhist institution, such as a Vatican. Rather, in establishing one of humanity’s first monastic orders, the Buddha set forth a matrix and process of conscious behavior (vinaya) based on actual conduct. As s…

South Dakota Bill Could Legalize Killing Abortion Doctors

By Lauri Lebo

…entirely.” It’s disturbing the number of assaults on women’s reproductive freedom that have taken place in the past couple months, from bills that would deny private insurance companies from providing abortion coverage to congressional Republicans’ proposed defunding of Planned Parenthood’s family services, which would include cancer screenings. But none have been as stomach-lurching as a South Dakota bill that could make it legal to murder abort…

Fundamentalist-Led Texas History Standards Get ‘D’ from Conservative Think Tank

By Lauri Lebo

…at all. During and after Reconstruction, there is no mention of the Black Codes, the Ku Klux Klan, or sharecropping; the term “Jim Crow” never appears. Incredibly, racial segregation is only mentioned in a passing reference to the 1948 integration of the armed forces. Or this section: Texas’s heavily politicized 2010 revisions to its social studies curriculum have attracted massive national attention. Indeed, both in public hearings and press int…

Graham’s Muslim Brotherhood Conspiracy Theory Not New

By Sarah Posner

…to blacks—portrayed President Obama as an emissary to this world of secret codes and seditious intent, and his much-lauded religious freedom speech in Cairo as evidence of that. . . . [National Review contributor Andrew] McCarthy, author of the books The Grand Jihad: How Islam and the Left Sabotage America and How Obama Embraces Islam’s Sharia Agenda, links both President Obama and the American left to this supposed plot, claiming that they share…

Blood and Hammers: Elderly Anti-Nuclear Activists Sentenced to Jail

By Kristen Tobey

…tonement, via the spilling of their own blood and the risking of their own freedom, for the sins of nuclear violence and idolatry. To ensure metaphysical efficacy, the action adhered to a ritual template that has remained strikingly consistent since the first Plowshares action — trespass, blood, hammers. But another crucial element of the Plowshares’ actions is the wait to be apprehended, which illuminates the ways in which the actions are meant t…

“Giving Godhead”: A Bloody Vision of Religion’s Deepest Influence

By Spencer Dew

…the antinomian carnival of de Sade’s vacation home at the other. That’s a freedom worth fighting for, she implies, but it is far from free. Inherent in Christianity—in the system of thought, not just its history—are empire and violence, Krieger argues, particularly a mode of subjugation and submission to servitude—and its lacerations—that renames abuse as saintliness. Of this she is dubious, though like all good mystics she remains faithful withi…