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What The Church Needs More Than a ‘Good Pope’

By Mary E. Hunt

…Rather, it’s caught fire because he’s articulating what groups like DignityUSA, Catholics for Choice, Women-Church Convergence, and others have been saying for decades; namely, that the heart of Catholicism is divine love and the soul of Catholicism is divine justice. If the church is “the holy, faithful people of God,” then it’s the many voices and not only the papal voice that speak truths, in the plural. Three Things Leave Me Warm… The intervi…

Insurance Coverage for Abortion in Health Care Reform Threatened

By Carlton Veazey

…e coverage for abortion is already restricted to the narrow cases of incest, rape, or life endangerment: women who receive Medicaid, federal workers, the military, the American Indian health service, women in federal prisons, and even Peace Corps volunteers.) This effort may be more devastating to women’s reproductive health care than the hundreds of individual state laws now on the books—or it may be a pivotal moment of change in the bitter battl…

International Protest of Anti-Gay Persecution in Chechnya Grows; more in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…only Marine is proposing radical solutions,” Le Pen supporter Kelvin Hopper, 25, told the Associated Press for an April 7 report. … Both Macron and Le Pen catered to anti-gay Catholics after the resurfacing of the anti-gay marriage French coalition La Manif Pour Tous (Demonstration For All) in October 2016, with 24,000 demonstrators demanding that candidates pledge to repeal the marriage law. Le Pen made the pledge, later promising civil unions. M…

Unmasking the Intention Behind the “Unmasking” of Obama

By Nicky Loomis

…y just as well be the Manchurian Candidate, with al-Qaeda, the Palestinians, the Saudis, your-Islamic-bad-guys’-name-here, playing the role of the brainwashing North Koreans nefariously plotting to plant one of their own in the White House.” Though Kristof underscores that McCain himself hasn’t raised doubts about Obama’s religion, in a recent TV ad sponsored by the McCain campaign, Obama is implicated not as a Muslim but as the Antichrist, as ima…

It’s Official: White Evangelical Support for Romney Not Dampened by Mormon Factor

By Joanna Brooks

…nt. Perhaps Romney’s team is to be credited for its careful management (that is, avoidance) of faith in the campaign, because the data suggests that faith was not a deterrent. Question is, if we can’t pin it on religion, what exactly was it that kept enthusiasm for Romney lagging behind enthusiasm for his opponent? Full data is here….

By the Way: Fractured Religious Right Endorses McCain

By Randall Balmer

…wonder if anyone at the meeting bothered to point out that from February 1, 2006, when Samuel Alito was sworn in as a Justice of the Supreme Court, until January 3, 2007, when the new Democratic majorities took control of the Senate, the Republican-Religious Right coalition controlled all three branches of the federal government. The chief executive, the majority leader of the Senate and the speaker of the House of Representatives all claimed to…

By the Way: Fractured Religious Right Endorses McCain

By Randall Balmer

…wonder if anyone at the meeting bothered to point out that from February 1, 2006, when Samuel Alito was sworn in as a Justice of the Supreme Court, until January 3, 2007, when the new Democratic majorities took control of the Senate, the Republican-Religious Right coalition controlled all three branches of the federal government. The chief executive, the majority leader of the Senate and the speaker of the House of Representatives all claimed to…

Web 8.0: The Return of the Human

By Beatrice Marovich

…sees us as a unique species—not like any other animal. He has, for example, reservations about animal rights. Too much empathy for other creatures, he alleges, can lead to “empathy inflation.” If we want to protect the rights of non-humans, we might as well torture ourselves over whether or not we have the right to kill the harmful bacteria that’s crawling around on (and in) us. The borders of the human might be “variegated and fuzzy,” Lanier say…

Excerpt: The Christian Roots of Zionism

By Shalom Goldman

…s an enthusiastic supporter of the State of Israel, but it is clear that he, too, thought of modern Israel in biblical terms. Both in private conversation and in his diary, Eisenhower referred to Israelis as ‘‘Israelites,’’ and it seems that he imagined that these modern Israelites were deeply religious. When an aide explained to the president that the Israeli leadership was assertively secular, he was astonished. This ‘‘biblical’’ reading of mode…

The Pope’s Interfaith Issues

By Hussein Rashid

…prevent inter-religious conflict, which he could not refuse. Traditionally, however, the Pope has not been active player in interfaith dialogue; his role has been more akin to a head of state when dealing with other traditions. For example, in medieval interactions between the Ottoman Sultan and the Vatican, the Pope was a head of state who negotiated treaties, sending emissaries to deal with theological issues. In many respects, the Pope’s lette…