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Catholic Bishops to Use Mass to Lobby Against Health Care?

By Frances Kissling

…flier/bulletin insert from the US Bishops Conference asking you to please contact your Representative and Senators immediately and urge them to fix these bills with pro-life amendments. The flier/bulletin insert includes a web address that allows you to send an email message to Congress with a click of a button. The bishops have asked for our swift action and the commitment of our prayers for this critical effort. Thank you for your help. We ca…

Abstinence, Not Condoms, Says Pope Upon Leaving for Africa

By Frances Kissling

…aim condoms increase the incidence of AIDS. True, if you never have sexual contact, you will not get sexually transmitted AIDS and you don’t need condoms. But, if you do have sexual contact, the only way you can dramatically reduce your risk of getting AIDS is by using a condom. Women who are faithful in marriage have gotten AIDS from husbands who are not so faithful. Even monogamous couples have transmitted AIDS when one partner contracted the di…

Trump’s Magical Appeal: A Dated Anthropologist Offers Clues

By Elijah Siegler

…primitive belief in contagious magic—that “things which have once been in contact with each other are always in contact.” Many pages of The Golden Bough are taken up with instances of practices that demonstrate this belief: using hair or nail clippings to control people, for example. In other words, Frazer imagined societies giving rise to rulers that were at once symbols of enormous vitality and profoundly susceptible to the possibility of some…

Barakah: Blessings Without Numbers

By Amina Wadud

…le thrown into a still pool of water ripples out from the center where the contact to the water is made? How the circles that go out from it get wider and wider? That’s the idea that I came up with to explain the merit of good deeds in increments. If the good you do benefits you, say at the point of contact, the one on one, then that is at least as good as that, times two. But when the good you do benefits yourself and others, say one other person…

Preaching to the ‘Moveable Middle’: Bishop Gene Robinson on Marriage Equality and the Election

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…en say anything to them?” They are not my target audience. I’ve had enough contact with people who are so far to that extreme that I think it’s… well, I wouldn’t call it a waste of time, but it’s not going to be terribly productive. The target audience of this book are those who feel kindly toward gay and lesbian people but perhaps have not had a direct experience of a gay couple or of their families. They’ve not had that kind of personal contact….

As New Poll Finds “Increased Xenophobic Streak,” Republicans Heighten Anti-Muslim Rhetoric

By Sarah Posner

…ers (73%) of Trump supporters say that it bothers them when they come into contact with immigrants who speak little or no English. Supporters of other Republican candidates also view immigrants negatively, but somewhat less so—a majority (56%) say that immigrants are a burden on the U.S. due to their economic impact and a similar number (58%) report that coming into contact with immigrants who do not speak English bothers them. After Paris, Trump,…

Church’s Lawyers Have SNAP in Their Sights

By Kathryn Joyce

…is is an improper use of tax funding. Journalists might be less willing to contact victims’ groups, in case some flippant comment is later taken out of context. Two, people who report known or suspected crimes, not just child sex, not just by clergy but crimes period, will be much more reluctant to do so, in case they end up deposed in some lawsuit they can’t even foresee. And three, people who have been deeply hurt and many who are still hurting…

In a Time of Chaos and Misrule, Mardi Gras’ Subversive Message is Virtually Meaningless

By Ed Simon

…i Gras’ relationship to Lent, but the more elemental, emotional, universal contact between the life of Fat Tuesday and the austerity of Ash Wednesday. Beyond the liturgical calendar there’s something intrinsic about those eternally nestled days, the ways in which we can measure the extremities of human experience between the lushness, the decadence, the celebration of Tuesday and the death of Wednesday. “Eat drink and be merry,” somebody once wrot…

To Fight White Supremacy We Must Resist Essentialism: The Author Responds

By Andrea R. Jain

…not try to connect with the public. The question of whether or not to make contact is generally met with a blatant prohibition or, at the very least, with ominous warnings. Those of us who nonetheless choose to live dangerously—to do public scholarship—challenge this model because we are convinced that connecting with the public, though admittedly dangerous, is a potential source of power, a mode of dismantling dominant systems of oppression. It i…

Should We Pronounce the Religion-Science Dialogue Dead on Arrival?: A Response to Robert Tapp

By Philip Clayton

…the knees. Thus it’s all the more intriguing when, on rare occasions, real contact and communication occurs. Robert Tapp recently posted an intelligent response to my column on RD. Three of his claims are particularly provocative and deserve attention. The paraphrases are mine: • Postmodern perspectives are a two-edged sword: they can promote new kinds of dialogue, but they can also collapse into an extreme relativism that is scarcely productive….