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Why Nobody Should Be Surprised That Pope Francis Made Problematic Comments About Judaism — And That He Remains Unapologetic

By Ilan Benattar

…promulgation of Nostra Aetate (“Our Time”) by the Second Vatican Council in 1965 was spurred in large part by criticism of official Vatican neutrality during World War II. At the time, it was hailed as a forward-thinking document which attested to deep introspection on the part of the Church. Nostra Aetate forms the additional reason why Pope Francis’s comments were surprising to so many, from scholars to Catholic theologians to Jewish leaders. We…

Eulogy, Corrected: Father Matthew Came Out as Gay 30 Years Earlier

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…r. Here is what Michael Bever reminds me: My Song of Mercy was published in 1994 [I’m afraid that’s all I got right]. This publication included both Matthew’s longer exposition of his sexual orientation in “Flute Solo” and the renowned essay, “Celibacy and the Gift of Gay.” “Flute Solo” had been in informal circulation since 1973 when it was written. Thus, he was 58 years old when he made public this affirmation of faith. On closer reading, I note…

There’s Something Rotten in Ireland

By Haroon Moghul

…that does not honor and revere Jesus Christ as a Prophet, as the Word and Spirit of God; moreover, Muslims revere Jesus as the Messiah who is foretold to return in the end times. It would be very strange to suggest that Palestinians, Muslim or Christian, would want to attack a sacred figure whose return is expected. This is coming from an embassy in an historically strongly Catholic country, too—whose connections to Palestinians are numerous, and…

‘Pro-Life’ Theater, Open White Nationalism, and Virility Fear — Day 3 of NatCon

By Annika Brockschmidt and Ben Lorber

…assure voters put off by the draconian policies the GOP calls “pro-life.” A 19th century law and 1950s century gender roles Later on, Katy Talento, a health advisor in the Trump White House who says abortion is “disgusting, it’s against every woman’s desire,” echoed a Project 2025 plan to use the Comstock Act, an obscure 19th century law which bans the sending of “obscene materials” via the post office to ban abortion nationwide. “It’s not hard to…

The Polite Islamophobia of the Intellectual

By Bruce B. Lawrence

…t More Widely in al-Ghazali… Berman’s book begins with an epigraph from the 11th century Iraqi doyen of religious sciences, Abu Hamid al-Ghazali, arguably the most prominent premodern Muslim intellectual. Evoking the human search for the divine as “the quest for man’s chiefest bliss,” the quote sets the stage for his blistering, unrelenting excoriation of Tariq Ramadan which, as an earlier Times review put it, is “essentially a booklong polemic ag…

How Prince Set Fire to My Catholic Girlhood

By Anthea Butler

…, pointed to a union of desire and the divine. No other artist tapped into spiritual truth and multiple orgasms at the same time the way Prince did. He didn’t even have to say the words—his moans said everything. Listening to Prince made you all hot, bothered, and anxious. Especially anxious. That anxiety wasn’t only about lust, but about the intensity and romance of many of Prince’s lyrics. Prince seemed to be looking for that perfect sexual part…

What’s Wrong with Wright’s Words

By Andrew Murphy

…. These presuppositions were deepened and strengthened by the events of the 1770s and 1780s, in which the notion of an American Israel throwing off oppression in order to take up its national mission settled ever more deeply into American public rhetoric. This link was only strengthened by the Revolutionary experience, the great evangelical revivals of the early nineteenth century, and the nation’s first movements westward. Nor did the jeremiad go…

Obama Shaking Hands with Warren While Winking at Gays?

By Jonathan L. Walton

…en as he is politically calculating. I understand that he wants to model a spirit of unity and common purpose by embracing those with whom he disagrees. And I get that he wants to bring together persons from all sides of the ideological spectrum in order to raise America from the nadir of Bush/Cheney political discourse. Yet all the evidence of the president-elect’s selection of Rick Warren to offer the invocation at the presidential inauguration…

Christian Epistle on Islamophobia

By Haroon Moghul

…from what they were told it is. All the passionate music, jubilation, and spiritual energy [at the Dearborn Awakening] cannot hide the meanness of spirit that would perpetrate this kind of fraud. We as Christians can be very intolerant, and the conservative politics that has shaped many of us makes what we say very irrelevant to today’s issues. I think a good part of the church is in denial as to how this country has really changed. I never heard…

Crossing Denominational Lines to Reprimand “Freaky Fraus”

By Kathryn Joyce

…by a sincere desire to honor the call of God and the anointing of the Holy Spirit on the ministry of committed Christian women.” Rev. Runnion-Bradford further criticized the women for refusing to take a vow of chastity and for promoting a self-centered gospel, citing the “Body, Sex and Gender” section of the group’s web page. “We know that ‘Womenpriests’ openly include candidates who are engaged in the practice of sexual license. It is significant…