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Bergoglio’s “Jesuitical” Reaction to Argentina’s Dirty War

By Sarah Posner

…sion for the poor, and this one for a discussion of his vociferous opposition to the current Argentinian government’s liberal policies on issues like same-sex marriage. On the question of then-Archbishop Bergoglio’s complicity in the brutal military dictatorship’s kidnapping of two dissenting Jesuit priests, which Nicole Greenfield discussed here, Hunt questions the evidence, suggesting that Bergoglio’s sins were more of omission, and that his ap…

Forget the Pope—We Need a New Caliph!

By Haroon Moghul

…dscape by making religion acceptable again. Recently Erdogan sidelined the military, has overseen a booming economy that has experienced a 300% rise in GDP in the last ten years, repaired relations with Israel, and the latest news suggests he’s even worked out a peace deal with the Kurds. If Erdogan can make Turkey a truly multicultural democracy, he’ll have resurrected the best characteristics of the Ottoman Empire, which last held the Caliphate,…

Don’t Blame Religion for Boston Bombings

By Mark Juergensmeyer

…agestan mujahedeen… declares that the Caucasus fighters are not waging any military activities against the United States of America… We are only fighting Russia, which is not only responsible for the occupation of the Caucasus, but also for monstrous crimes against Muslims. Still, for Tamarlan the notion of being a part of a great battle seemed appealing. Real wars can sound tremendously exciting to such people. The imagined wars of great religiou…

Watching Man of Steel in Istanbul

By Haroon Moghul

…ess and its contagiousness. Turks want more of it. They’ve rolled back the military and undone Ataturk’s cult of personality. And now they fight for it again, on their own, as they always have. What if we Americans had done that in response to Mr. Snowden’s whistleblowing, or America’s drone policy, or the PATRIOT Act? So a sucky Superman was the last thing I needed. Kal-El’s story that, like democratization, has been told so many times it should…

An Independence Day Sermonette

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…State, Church and Fatherland.” American culture worships the “No-Gods” of military might, money and capitalism, “family values,” “the war on terrorism,” and most especially its state form of piety clothed in conservative evangelical Christianity. The linking of a particular strain of conservative religion with the “blessed” social order and setting it up as the arbiter of human freedom within history is just what Barth is talking about. In this w…

Why Did Utah’s Senator Mike Lee Vote Against the Violence Against Women Act?

By Joanna Brooks

…women in combat. Thirty years later, the gays are getting married, career military women already serving in combat zones are finally getting recognized for their work, and—really—who doesn’t love those family-friendly unisex bathrooms at the airport? Women in combat: check. Unisex bathrooms: check. Gay marriage: on the way. Violence Against Women Act: passed the Senate 78 – 22, no thanks to Senator Lee. Equal Rights Amendment: unfinished busin…

Updated: Dr. Oz Thinks Anti-Muslim’s Sugar-Daddy Sheldon Adelson is “Not So Bad”

By Garibaldi

…ost did not learn about one of the most shocking and extreme iterations of military occupation and settler domination during his visit. He did not meet with local Palestinians to hear about their hardships under occupation, or even take a tour with an Israeli groups like Breaking the Silence, that try and shine light on the situation there. No, Dr. Oz went on a tour hosted by the settler community in Hebron…. The same settler community that mainta…

Death Without Religion

By Gordon Haber

…ble assertion to make in such a tendentious book. Perhaps there is a small number of Americans losing their lives at the hands of hasty harvesters; even a very small number would be too high. But I had a hard time summoning any outrage. In the end I learned much more from Kagan—ironically because his aims are in a way more modest. He wants to convince you of his physicalist stance; however, he doesn’t want to tell you how to reconcile with death….

As Tensions Escalate in the Balkans, the West Could Hand Putin a Valuable Weapon

By Katherine Kelaidis

…de against Albanian Kosovars in the late 1990s. The fact is, a significant number of Serbs, and even a large number of others from traditionally Orthodox backgrounds, continue to harbor a great deal of anger about Western intervention in the Kosovo War, which they see as a failure by the West to comprehend the historical role-reversal that’s taken place, including the persecution of Orthodox Christians by Albanians and other majority-Muslim ethnic…

Catholic Sex Teaching is No Laughing Matter

By Marian Ronan

…Ya think??? Trouble is, this stuff really isn’t funny. In point of fact, a number of official Catholic statements on sexuality—it’s invariably sexuality and gender they’re riled up about—are downright dangerous. Take, for example, the Ugandan Catholic bishops. As Peter Montgomery reported in RD this week, they joined recently with Anglican and Orthodox bishops “to speed-up the process of enacting the Anti-Homosexuality Law.” This is the bill which…