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2023 CPAC Lived Down to Expectations, But Don’t Buy the Narrative: The GOP is Not as Divided as You Might Think

By Annika Brockschmidt

…f the speaking slots were stunning to witness. As he introduced the former Brazilian president, the CPAC vice chairman bemoaned that Jair Bolsonaro lost his election because he “was unfortunately not able to control the Brazilian Supreme Court.” The crowd went wild —insurrectionists supporting each other—and Bolsonaro was true to his nickname, the “Trump of the tropics,” spreading lies and falsehoods about his time in office with Christian nationa…

Catholic Cardinal Slams Jesuit’s Bridge-Building Book; and More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…der refugees escape persecution in Russia’s Cechnya republic,” reports CTV News. In contrast, Radio New Zealand reports that gay men have been detained on Papua New Guinea’s Manus Island after seeking asylum in Australia have been subjected to abuse and are now facing an uncertain future with Australian government plans to close the center before the end of October. Homosexuality is illegal in Papua New Guinea, but some detainees fear that returni…

Arrest the Pope: New Atheist Effort to Seek Justice in Sexual Abuse Crisis Should Be Applauded

By Frances Kissling

…d with the Kayapo Indians. Pezzotti went to Italy in 2003, but returned to Brazil in 2008. A few months later, the man he had sexually abused in the United States saw photos of him on the internet and complained to the church. The priest was quickly sent back to Italy. “Father Vijay Vhaskr Godugunuru was forced to return to India and then was transferred to Italy after pleading no contest to assaulting a 15-year-old girl while visiting friends in…

How Are the “Nones” Raising Their Children?

By Christel Manning

…ars living among the Piraha, a small tribe of Amazonian Indians in central Brazil. The Piraha have no counting system, no fixed terms for color, no concept of war, and no personal property. When he arrived in Brazil, Everett was a Christian, and his research funding came from a Christian organization, so while he sought to understand the tribe’s language and its cultural implications, his real goal was to convert them to Christianity. The book des…

In Sexual Abuse Hearing UN Calls Holy See on Girls’ Reproductive Rights

By Angela Bonavoglia

…ignored the girl in Nicaragua, but addressed “the child forced to abort in Brazil.” Regarding the stepfather’s not being excommunicated for raping a child, he said, “The father should be treated like the mother and the child—it’s a good point,” as if the thought had never occurred to him. In a church that holds women responsible for sexual “sins” that may actually be the case. Reiterating the day’s refrain, completely ignorant of the irony, he dec…

Over Objections of Catholic Church, Mexico City Upholds Abortion Law

By Kate Childs Graham

…2007, Brazil—the country with the largest Catholic population in the world—promoted emergency contraception as part of its birth control plan. On the other hand, in the United States, only 24% Catholic, the institutional Catholic Church has managed to have a great deal of impact on legislation concerning the same topics. For example, the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) was recently reauthorized. The United States Conference of…

Would Manny Ramirez’s Clone Use Steroids?

By Arri Eisen

…slugger from another—in line with the popularized horror visions of Brave New World (make clones of entire social classes) or Boys from Brazil (clone another Hitler)—isn’t in the cards. And our experiment takes the air out of the clone-the-dead-child-and-expect-to-grow-another-just-like-her plan (one of the oft-mentioned scenarios for the use of cloning). The kinds of questions arising now around cloning also change: If there is no such thing as…

As COVID-19 Spreads, Nicaragua’s Leaders Opt For Trumpian Denial and Misinformation

By Jeannine M. Pitas

…s revolutionary image while enacting policies similar to those of Trump or Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro. “Ortega is ultra right-wing,” says Dr. Jorge Huete. “He calls himself a socialist while using neoliberal methods. Meanwhile, his government has lost credibility. Not long ago they said there were nine new cases in a week. We know that in just one hospital there were nine cases in a day.” While people are trying to protect themselves, Dr. Quant belie…

International ‘Pro-Family’ Summit Calls for New Anti-Gay Laws: Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ic, St. Lucia, Barbados, Trinidad and Tobago, Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Brazil, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Uruguay, Argentina, Chile, Spain and the U.S. Lavers recaps the regional context of change and continuing problems for LGBTs: Same-sex couples are able to legally marry in 19 states and D.C., Canada, Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil, Mexico City, French Guiana, the French islands of Martinique, Guadeloupe, St. Martin and St. Barthelemy and the Cari…

Are We Living in a Simulation? Bad Religion, Bad Media Combine in New Doc, ‘A Glitch in the Matrix’

By Shannon Trosper Schorey

…lation theory Mystwood is playing with—he is the universe, the universe is code, his code is part of the important bit, it’s all a simulation, and he’s ready to play. And, importantly, the rest of us might not matter. The language of programming in A Glitch in the Matrix is compelling and difficult. On the one hand, it is literal computer programming. On the other, intentional or not, the movie invokes the language of “deprogramming” that was comm…