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New Report Raises Questions about Pope Francis’ Response to Sex Abuse Scandal

By Sarah Posner

…pe Francis’ reaction (as Archbishop Bergoglio) to the sex abuse scandal in Argentina, which won’t inspire much confidence or optimism about his possible global response to the scandal as pope: Father Julio Cesar Grassi was a celebrity in the Archdiocese of Buenos Aires. The young, dynamic, media-savvy priest networked with wealthy Argentines to fund an array of schools, orphanages and job training programs for poor and abandoned youths, winning pr…

Will Pope’s African Tour Change Attitudes on Divorce and LGBTQ Among African Catholics?

By Kaya Oakes

…al courtesy visits with politicians in each country. Witnessing the experience of Kenyan, Ugandan, and Central Africans first hand, sitting with them, and hearing their stories, the Pope may well see the same issues he did as a parish priest in the slums of Argentina, including issues of the complexities of family life as experienced in countries with great social difficulties. That experience pushed him to seeing the mission of the Catholic churc…

South Carolina Rejects Christian Vanity Plates

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…g, Currie wrote. That law hasn’t stopped South Carolina from approving and promoting the tag. The idea for the tag came from Lt. Governor Andre Bauer, who has his eye on the governor’s mansion now that Gov. Sanford’s hiking trip in Argentina has made the state a national laughingstock. Bauer was quick to brand the judge as a “liberal judge appointed by (President) Bill Clinton,” who has it in for Christians. Bauer said the ruling represented “anot…

Liberation Theology is Alive and Well

By Mary E. Hunt

…ese theologians, activists, pastoral and base community leaders from Peru, Argentina, Uruguay, Chile, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, and more were typical of the people who attended the theological event. They stayed on for the Social Forum—better ambassadors from the world of religion than any Catholic Church officials I can imagine. Such meetings always include exposure to the local reality—lest liberation theology be done in a vacuum. This w…

Chilean Mine Rescue: Largest Global Spiritual Event Ever?

By Elizabeth Drescher

…cebook group “Chilean Miners,” for instance (people from Germany, Ireland, Argentina, Canada, Ohio, Wyoming, and so on) were watching the live feed from the mine in their homes, workplaces, cafes and other distributed locales, but praying together for the miners, sharing news from their parts of the world, and, in general, witnessing and ministering to one another throughout the day. It’s hard to tell where all this might lead. Predictably, alas,…

The Sexual Threat to Fundamentalism

By Michelle Goldberg

…rch has more than 200 satellite churches spread throughout Eastern Europe, Argentina, Israel, and the United States. As the SPLC’s Casey Sanchez reported, the pastor “promote[s] his vision of global theocracy through elaborate, large-scale Christian rock operas that Ledyaev writes, directs, and stars in, and which are replete with lasers, smoke machines, and spandex-clad actors in ghoulish makeup. One of the rock operas, which young Russian-speaki…

Global LGBT Recap: Promise and Peril in the New Year

By Peter Montgomery

…ights Watch’s LGBT director. He cites the recent advent of gay marriage in Argentina, Uruguay and Mexico City. And in the last two years, Ecuadorean authorities closed down 15 “clinics” that supposedly cured homosexuality, their patients often admitted by their families against their will. Violence has also spurred some positive political response, says the story. In 2012 Chile passed an anti-discrimination law that had been stalled in Congress fo…

South Carolina Gubernatorial Candidate Denies Affair

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…scandal-prone politicians. From Governor Mark Sanford’s Appalachian Trail/Argentina affair to Joe Wilson’s outburst at President Obama during a speech to a joint session of Congress, the Palmetto State has been supplying national political fodder for awhile. Now, comes revelations of another scandal – allegations of an adulterous affair between a Republican gubernatorial candidate and one of Sanford’s old aides. Today, Will Folks, former communic…

Gay Rights Org Delivers 150,000-Signature Petition to LDS Church

By Joanna Brooks

…n their defense, to a position more like that adopted by the LDS Church in Argentina last summer, when members were not officially deployed or pressured into anti-same-sex marriage political activism and were instead counseled to review Church doctrine on marriage as articulated in the LDS Proclamation on the Family. None of this public acknowledgement of the reality and dignity of LGBT experience or deference to mainstream usage of terms like gay…

Trump Election Could Threaten LGBT Rights Globally

By Peter Montgomery

…on ORAM…. But activists in countries where US support has been critical to promoting LGBT rights say they are afraid more broadly that a Trump victory could tacitly encourage governments with weak commitments to human rights or democracy. “I don’t think he’d be able to hold our leaders accountable or uphold American values abroad,” said Clare Byarugaba, who co-chaired the coalition of groups in Uganda that fought the sweeping Anti-Homosexuality Ac…