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New Vatican Document Good News for Poor, Bad News for Tea Party

By Daniel C. Maguire

…s to the poor as I am, “then all will know that you are my disciples” (John 13:35). This document is good news for the poor and bad news for the Tea Party. It says we need globalized solutions for globalized problems; it favors a market economy but not this one; it calls for “supranational authority,” a healthy, non-tyrannical “world political authority” to tame the greed games that strip the poor and gorge the rich; it calls names, deriding “neol…

Shutting Down the Vatican…Website

By The Editors

…c politics. (Not just Italy, we’d have to say.) – The Eds. …

Religious Exemption for Contraception Under Health Care Law

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…ly small minority of U.S. Catholics who agree with and follow the church’s official prohibition of artificial contraception… well, presumably you would not use those services. Ah, but what about the employers and their consciences? The religious exemption, whether it was intended to or not, essentially places the choice upon them: Do they want to be able to act as though contraception isn’t part of basic health care, that it’s a moral evil, and th…

Debating God: Atheist and Evangelical Face Off at Notre Dame

By Nathan Schneider

…e debates. As is usual, long lines of mostly young men formed at each microphone. One guy presented Harris with detailed scientific evidence for Our Lady of Fatima’s miracles. Another told Craig that God had recently told him that homosexuality is okay; Craig refused to dignify such “feigned sincerity” with an answer. Craig said later that the audience questions had disappointed him, but he suspects it was mainly the fault of the local atheist gro…

Showdown Over Shari’ah at Faith and Freedom Coalition Conference

By Sarah Posner

…n what they claim is the threat of shari’ah to the constitution. It was an official panel, in a main ballroom of the conference. Breger, along with Khan, were relegated to an unofficial panel, in a tiny room, on preserving religious freedom. There, Breger laid out why shari’ah law is no more scary than halacha, or Jewish law, and why conservatives and other Americans need not fear its infiltration into our courts which, Gaffney maintains, is happe…

Palin Bus Tour Like Gideon’s Fleece

By Anthea Butler

…her version of the history of America. Her rapid-fire tours of historical sites is like the attention deficit syndrome version of American history. All photo ops and quick sound bites about energy policy, free markets, and American exceptionalism, then speeding off in an SUV. Topping off her day was a visit to Trump Tower, a monument to the Donald, whose comb-over was perfectly coiffed as he took pictures with Palin and Piper before having a dinn…

Devil’s Bookmark: Doubting God’s Existence, but Angry Nevertheless

By Bernard Schweizer

…y cognizant of the fact that other people share his hatred of God), whose “official” pronouncements depict him as an atheist with a dash of agnosticism and an occasional bout of anti-clerical rage. What does this allow us to say about the author who created this character? Well, his novel is quite openly biographical, with the action set mainly in Wood’s own birthplace. Like Tom, Wood grew up in a religiously devout family and went through his own…

Creationist Theme Park Gets $43 Million in Tax Rebates

By Lauri Lebo

Kentucky made it official Thursday to give a planned Noah’s Ark theme park $43 million in tourism tax rebates. The Kentucky Tourism Development Finance Authority voted unanimously to grant the tax incentives for the $172.5 million project. Answers in Genesis, which built Kentucky’s Creation Museum, is behind the theme park. Gov. Steve Beshear defended the tax incentives because plans say it will create 600 to 700 jobs, almost assuredly just for C…

Bin Laden’s Death Does Not Prove that Torture Works

By Sarah Sentilles

…was used to track down bin Laden and kill him. Torture is effective, these officials argue, and a dead bin Laden is their proof. But there are several problems with this argument. Despite claims to the contrary, torture has been proven time and again to produce unreliable intelligence. People will say anything to get you to stop hurting them. Even if, as the New York Times reports, one detainee who was “apparently subjected to some tough treatment…

Mitt Out-Mans Trump by Rejecting Birther Nonsense

By Joanna Brooks

…h for recovering progressive-rock long-hair, Jon Huntsman, Jr., to make it official and to make it a truly Big Mo-Publican Primary, but Huntsman’s fledgling campaign may have experienced another minor setback this week when two letters from Huntsman buttering up Presidents Clinton and Obama were leaked to the press.) Last week, Romney declared, “I believe the president was born in the United States,” winning high praise from MSNBC’s Chris Matthews…