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Does Analytic Thinking Erode Religious Belief?

By Andrew Aghapour

…adian undergraduates, a population that we would expect to be somewhat malleable on the subject of religion. We should not be surprised, then, that undergraduates faced with “The Thinker” or a puzzle loaded with the words “analyze” and “reason” would self-report less religiosity; it would be much the same as someone downplaying religious belief in conversation with an agnostic scientist. To take heed of the recent call to be careful with how we in…

Only 5 Million “Real” Catholics in the U.S.?

By Marian Ronan

…nal problems, radical feminism, and spending too much time on justice and peace. As a result, for the next ﬁve years, a conservative archbishop will control whatever the group does. In the outpouring of protests that followed the Vatican statement, one message comes through clearly: for the vast majority of us, the sisters embody the Catholic faith. They taught it to us, they model it, they press on when others give up. They were the ﬁrst and brav…

Eat, Pray, Kill: The Basic Brutality of Eating

By Beatrice Marovich

…e toward all living creatures. The power of ahimsa can be genealogically traced into the vegetarian strains and variants of Hinduism, Jainism, and Buddhism. Is it when we turn to the wisdom of religious traditions that we finally find the spiritual purity we’re looking for? The sort that can clean our dirty hands from the inside out, starting with our nasty and brutish souls? A Screaming Silence My own thinking around religion and animals, particu…

Bishops Double Down on Issues of Pelvis Over Poverty

By Peter Montgomery

…stance on reproductive issues, and their silence on others. The bishops released a memo reaffirming their rejection of the “radically flawed” compromise on insurance coverage of contraception proposed by the Obama administration. As Dan Maguire noted, Bishop Robert McManus forced Anna Maria College to withdraw its invitation to Victoria Kennedy, Sen. Edward Kennedy’s widow, to give the school’s commencement address. And Xavier University, a Jesuit…

New Study Shows 1.7%, 4%, or 10% of Americans are Gay

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…the AP would misrepresent the poll, until you realize who they called for reaction: Peter Sprigg from the Family Research Council who took the bisexual numbers as a “problem” for the gay community because “it undermines the idea that being born homosexual is an immutable characteristic that can’t be changed.” No, Peter, what that means is that some people are born bisexual and are more fluid in their sexual orientation. So, really, it presents ver…

Kirk Cameron’s Monumental Reveals Subtle Influence of Christian Reconstructionism

By Julie Ingersoll

…mily government, church (ecclesiastical) government, and civil government. Each sphere is charged with certain responsibilities and restricted from activities belonging to another sphere: the family is to raise and educate children; the church is to spread the gospel and provide ecclesiastical discipline; and the civil government should do nothing more than punish evildoers and protect property. Looking to the civil government to do anything more…

Cues for Throwing Up

By Sarah Posner

…sity. But Santorum had a Catholic mentor, if not for the precise physical reaction, for the overall contempt for Kennedy and for the Establishment Clause. Kennedy’s speech is best remembered as a defense to Protestant ministers and others who fretted that a Catholic president would merely carry water for the Vatican while in the White House. Kennedy rebutted those charges by defending the separation of church and state enshrined in the Constitutio…

Martin Luther King in the Era of Occupy

By Paul Harvey

…tanding of past struggles but to the success of futures ones. King’s life teaches us that the movement did not rise spontaneously from the church but that churches had to be actively recruited into the struggle for social justice. The job is not over. Edward J. Blum______________ King and the King of Kings Whenever I consider Martin Luther King Jr., I invariably think of Jesus. Perhaps it’s because King was first and last a minister of the gospe…

The Religious Duty to Come Out

By Jay Michaelson

…n taught me. But I also lied to girlfriends, family members, friends, and teachers. I lied to employers, to students, and to casual acquaintances. I lied all the time, to everyone. Even on the rare occasions when I would sneak out of my life and into the seedy gay underworld of secrecy and sex, I would lie, making up fake names and backgrounds so no one could identify me later. Somehow, I believed that all this lying was in the service of God. Fro…

Case Against Church-State Separation From Unlikely Source

By Peter Laarman

…ancient corporatist tradition rooted in the idea that church and state are each sovereign in their own sphere, but should cooperate where their missions overlap (as in education and social welfare). In its more diverse modern form, the point is simply that, wherever they are needed, sovereign associations should be supported by public law and, where applicable, by public funds. This new corporatism, Daly believes, echoes and honors the older form:…