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Conservative Christians Struggle With Christianity

By Lauri Lebo

On a Saturday morning at Philadelphia’s Independence Hall, people gathered to celebrate the life of one of Pennsylvania’s best-known civil-rights lobbyists, a man known for working the halls of Harrisburg’s statehouse, championing issues from gay rights to prison reform to immigration justice. Many of the people who came for the service were from American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania, where Larry Frankel had spent all but the last year o…

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

By Mary E. Hunt

…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 Philadelphia piously assured his flock that no priests with allegations against them were still in active ministry. A few weeks later he suspended 23 priests suspected of abuse, implicitly admitting that he either lied or didn’t know about the cases. Pick your poison. Either…

Ordination of Women: Keep it Irregular

By Donna Schaper

…first 11 women in the Episcopal church were ordained. On July 29, 1974, in Philadelphia, 11 women were ordained as the first female priests in the Episcopal Church. They became known as the “Philadelphia Eleven.” While there was no law explicitly prohibiting the ordination of women, there also was no law allowing it. We continue to refer to this moment as the irregular ordination. Two years later, the Episcopal Church’s General Convention voted to…

“A Feminine Complaint Against Theologians”

By Susan Henking

…,” examining a book entitled Art and Argyrol; yes, about the same suburban Philadelphia man whose art collection is the subject of a 2010 documentary called Art of the Steal. Elsewhere in the magazine, science raised and answered questions that seem so contemporary: Can science help parents choose in advance the sex of their baby? The answer: not now, but perhaps before very long. That same magazine included this commentary on the era’s pessimism:…

No Christmas in the Village of Philly

By Anthea Butler

…r has been bombarded with calls regarding the change, while irate (normal) Philadelphians have been excoriating City Managing director Rich Negrin and others for the change in the sign. The market, modeled after the German Christmas markets, has not only a large German holiday ornament store, but also a variety of vendors of many faiths plying their wares. I even bought my Christmas (!) tree there the day after Christmas, and enjoyed looking at th…

#WhoIsBurningBlackChurches: Is It Freedom Summer Again?

By Anthea Butler

…to visit, and the three were arrested on June 16th for speeding in nearby Philadelphia, Mississippi. After paying a fine at 10 pm that evening, they were told to get out of the county. They were never seen alive again. Their bodies would be found later that summer in an earthen dam on the Old Jolly Farm outside of Philadelphia. One day after the 51st anniversary of the murder of Schwarner, Chaney and Goodman, nine African Americans were shot down…

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Project 2025: How Trump Loyalists and Right-Wing Leaders Are Paving a Fast Road to Fascism

By Peter Montgomery

…pursuit of absolute power in the holy water of environmental virtue.”[62] Philadelphia Inquirer columnist Will Bunch calls the Project 2025 climate agenda a “blueprint for destroying the planet.”[63] Although it is separate from the Trump campaign’s own published “Agenda 47,”[64] Project 2025’s policy roadmap aligns with its authoritarian plans, which include seizing the endowments of top universities to fund the creation of a massive “American A…

Pastors Urged to Defy IRS to Defeat Evil, Hitlerian Obama

By Peter Montgomery

…t Saturday’s “America for Jesus” rally in Philadelphia, which kicked off a number of prayer-and-fasting campaigns designed to influence the outcome of the November elections. On today’s call, John Hagee insisted that St. Paul had instructed Christians to stand on the evil day, and that “the evil day is here.” He cited Bonhoffer looking the evil of Naziism in the face in Hitler’s Germany. Americans, he said are being “trampled” by the “secular left…

Challenge to ‘un-Africanness’ of homosexuality; LGBT Catholics in Africa face church cooperation with persecution; lesbian cartoon project debuts in bangladesh under shadow of violence; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…e’s visit will included the Catholic Church’s World Meeting of Families in Philadelphia. Lavers reports that Pope Francis has been asked for a meeting by LGBT Catholics in the US and in Cuba, which he will visit before flying to Washington, D.C. An AFP report on the trip’s reparations says Francis “has taken advantage of a summer lull at the Vatican to fine-tune his hotly awaited speeches, sources at the Holy See say.” For his three-day visit to C…

‘Eff Around and Find Out’ — Federal and State Law Enforcement Reaffirm Their Commitment to Election Integrity

By Habiba Farh

…swing states that the DOJ will send poll monitors to. On the state level, Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner warned, “Anybody who thinks it’s time to play militia: Eff around and find out…We do have the cuffs, we do have the jail cells, we do have the Philly juries and we have the state prisons.” Krasner was also DA in 2020, when two Virginia men crossed state lines with guns headed for a Philadelphia vote count center. The men believed…