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Catholic Church Targets Proponent of Women’s Ordination; Feminist Theologian

By Mary E. Hunt

…ver. Recently the Oregon Province of the Society of Jesus filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. Shortly thereafter, they announced a settlement of $166 million for more than five hundred survivors, many of them Native Americans and Alaskan Natives, who had been abused by more than 100 Jesuit priests and brothers. A damning grand jury report in Philadelphia in February made clear that abuse cases are still piling up. Justin Cardinal Rigali in…

Mass Conversion: Changing Churches to Stop the Church From Changing

By Elizabeth Drescher

…that derives, as William Oddie points out in the Catholic Herald, from the 13th century Sarum Missal, which significantly influenced the 1549 Book of Common Prayer and subsequent revisions. The Sarum Rite is likewise echoed in Book of Divine Worship, a Roman Catholic adaptation of the 1928 Episcopal prayer book that St. Luke’s, like the seven other “Anglican use” parishes in the US Catholic Church, will take up. A Liturgical Line in the Sands of…

Crisis Pregnancy Centers and Obama’s Faith-Based Initiative

By Sarah Posner

…oney continue to operate under Bush-era rules. In other words, there is no official monitoring function in place to ensure that organizations operating with federal grants do not proselytize, or that they do provide beneficiaries with secular alternatives. Under the auspices of the Department of Health and Human Services, the National Fatherhood Initiative gives out “capacity building” grants which are intended to “develop these organizations’ cap…

Crisis in Philly: Trial Date Nears for Priests Indicted in Sex Abuse Scandal

By Anthea Butler

…is that it is the first time in the American Catholic Church that a church official has been arrested and brought to trial. Church officials have never been legally prosecuted for the mismanagement of priests and the countless shuffling of molesters and pedophiles from one parish to another until now. That blow was dealt by Philadelphia District Attorney Seth Williams (dubbed “the avenging altar boy” by columnist Maureen Dowd) who is spearheading…

Vatican: Gay Rights Opponents are Real Victims

By Joseph M. Palacios

…orientation and gender identity as human rights categories. Since the early 1980s and the ascendency of Cardinal Ratzinger as head of the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF), the moral theology of the Church has become increasingly locked into a framework of natural law anthropology, which is a logic based on male and female roles as pro-creators in the natural order of a biologistic social order emphasizing the nuclear family as the f…

Virginia High School Says Students May Post Ten Commandments on Lockers

By Lauri Lebo

…t up by individual students expressing their religious views, but were the official government-sponsored displays of the Giles County School District. After the district decided to remove the Ten Commandments, the Giles County students hosted a walk out from school and said that those who didn’t agree with their version of Christianity should just move away. While the Giles County School District has not put back the displays, officials with Floyd…

Booing Gay Soldiers and Expressing Faith in the Public Square

By Sarah Posner

…ional question of whether government activity is or can be construed as an official endorsement of a particular religion. (The legal test for resolving this question in particular cases was laid out by the Supreme Court in the 1971 case Lemon v. Kurtzman, which Christian right legal advocates aim to eventually overturn.) Kelly conflated two separate concepts: state establishment of religion, which the Constitution proscribes, and free exercise of…

Newt Gingrich’s Apocalypse

By Sarah Posner

…of EMP’s allegedly lasting impact is purely theoretical, EMP awareness advocates can make outlandish claims regarding the threat that even the smallest nuclear arsenal poses. They can also point to allegations made by the official EMP Commission, ignoring the fact that many outside experts dispute its findings. So just how far out there are Republican apocalyptic theologies? In the 2012 campaign, they will probably be par for the course….

Despite Religious Violence, Egyptian Mosques Calling for Muslim-Christian Unity

By H.A. Hellyer

…roblems, head-on, without allowing ourselves to become complacent; but to face those problems with any degree of seriousness, we have to face them together. Otherwise, we might as well admit defeat, and send out an official message to al-Qa’eda and their friends entitled “You’ve won.” Because that disunity is what they’ve been aiming to achieve all along. Egyptians and Americans have got a better message than that….

Olasky Concludes Gingrich Untrustworthy, Unredeemed

By Sarah Posner

…that changed when Gingrich announced his campaign for the presidency on May 11. Olaksy concludes, after interviewing numerous sources, that Armey’s statement is “unconfirmable,” although there’s ample evidence that the press and many in official Washington were aware of Gingrich’s affair with his now-wife, Callista. Armey concluded to Olasky “that Gingrich had been extraordinarily reckless and had left himself open to pressure that the White House…