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“Make The Mass Latin Again”: The Pope Francis Backlash Comes Home

By Kaya Oakes

…1898. Like most dioceses, San Francisco has seen a precipitous drop in the number of seminarians in formation, and there are currently only 93 students enrolled. The Sulpicians were informed in October of last year “that we are no longer invited to provide Sulpician administrative leadership to St Patrick’s,” and the rector, Fr. James McKearney, was forced to resign, in a decision that “just came out of the blue for reasons that are still not clea…

The Other Puritan Dinner Party

By Joanna Brooks

…h. Seeing the Dinner Party was, of course, a religious experience, just as Chicago intended it to be. I found myself most captivated by the place setting for Anne Hutchinson (1591 – 1643), the feminist Puritan who led study groups in her own home in Boston and weighed in on thorny theological questions—works versus grace—that divided leaders of church and colony. For the record, Anne Hutchinson stood on the side of grace, communicated immediately…

Catholic Group Blasts Cardinal’s Comment Comparing Gay Rights Parade to KKK

By Sarah Posner

…e, past president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, objecting to Chicago’s gay rights parade. On Fox News Chicago, George said, “You don’t want the gay liberation movement to morph into something like the Ku Klux Klan, demonstrating in the streets against Catholicism.” Equally Blessed charges in a statement that George “has demeaned and demonized LGBT people in a manner unworthy of his office. In suggesting that the Catholic hierarchy ha…

A Furious Sadness: Conversation with Christian Protester of Nazi-Saluting Trump Supporter

By Daniel Schultz

…to protesters doing the same, but protester Michael Joseph Garza told the Chicago Tribune that he did not believe that was the case and elaborated a bit: “I went up to her and said, ‘Ma’am, please leave, we have understood you, we have made a (path),’” Garza recalled. “She said, ‘Go? Back in my day, this is what we did,’ basically, and then she hailed Hitler.” Garza posted his own recollection of the incident on Facebook the same night: The woman…

Kanye West’s Critique of Prosperity Preaching

By Josef Sorett

…Throughout the video Kanye is trailed through the streets of his hometown, Chicago, by an goofy white Jesus who performs a series of miracles. He puts cash in Kanye’s pocket. He fills an empty refrigerator with food. And he heals a young man on crutches, who then promptly breaks out into a praise dance. More than a clear theological message, ultimately “Jesus Walks” puts on display the silly (yet still seductive) idea that God might serve humans m…

History in Real Time: Teaching Obama

By Anthea Butler

…stay over for election day. It was the best decision of my life. From the Chicago Hilton Bar and the streets of Chicago, I saw history being made. I shouted and cried not only for the burden that is beginning to lift from our country, but from the burden of teaching the history of African-American religion with a heavy heart semester after semester. Allow me to explain. I’m not sure that many of you know the psychic toll it takes on people of col…

The Real (and More Interesting) World Behind Magic in the Moonlight

By David Walker

…mporary reports belie that notion).* It’s all rather fascinating: from the Chicago spookhouse to the Yellowface act to the fights over, and oversights of, “authenticity.” Not least is the fact of Robinson’s flip-flopping career as a sometime spiritualist sometime anti-spiritualist. That magicians and spiritualists did battle is no surprise. Their turf-wars over the meaning, mechanics, and professional locus of “phenomena” are the stuff of familiar…

Masculinity and Mass Violence: When Will We Acknowledge the Smoking Gendered Pronoun Hiding in Plain Sight?

By Elizabeth Drescher

…was omitted. The shooter or shooters there have not been apprehended, but Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel offered a warning that, as I will discuss shortly, hardly helps matters for those of us who are concerned about what seems to be a growing tide of mass violence. “Take your stuff to the alley,” Emanuel was quoted as saying. “Don’t touch the children of the city of Chicago. Don’t get near them.” Our digital-age attention spans generally being what…

The Critical Role of Jews in Defining Modernity

By Chad Alan Goldberg

…mission to use the image and to the design department at the University of Chicago Press for creating a terrific cover with it. Is there a book out there you wish you had written? Which one? Why? There are many excellent books by historians, philosophers, and social scientists on the representation of Jews in social thought, the backgrounds and contexts of Jewish social thinkers, and the historical sociology of Jews and their relations to gentiles…

Challenging Both Homophobia in Islam and Populist Bogeyman of ‘The Homophobic Muslim’; and More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…h profiled Armet Kolesov, a 23-year-old gay Russian violinist who lives in Chicago. This spring, a day after his birthday, Kolesov recorded a 15-minute message to young gay people in Russia, and it went viral. A few excerpts: He went on, in Russian, to tell the story of growing up as the fourth of six brothers in a small town, an hour’s drive from Moscow, where his father was a deacon and his mother was a youth pastor at the Pentecostal church. “I…