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Milwaukee Archdiocese, Under Dolan, Paid Sex Abusers to Leave Priesthood

By Sarah Posner

…lies and operating schools and youth programs, is an employee given a cash bonus for raping and sexually assaulting children?” Kathryn Joyce published an extensive interview with Clohessy at RD in March about efforts by the accused Kansas City priest and the Archdiocese of St. Louis to subpoena confidential records from SNAP. There, she wrote: While the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops has denied that there is a national strategy for t…

A Daily Utopia: Creating Our Moral Values Every Day

By Anna Peterson

…said. I’m just starting to read around in that literature. It’s great fun. Bonus Question: With a diversity of religion in the United States, what common ground is there for a common or universal ethic? This is an enduring dilemma for ethicists. Habits of the Heart suggests that our culture has a deeply rooted “expressive individualism” that can be an alternative to the utilitarian individualism which they find both widespread and destructive. I t…

4 Life Lessons from Episode Two of Preachers’ Daughters

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…ly—well, one begins to wonder whether you’ve thought even one step ahead. Bonus tip: When your dad asks you, three times, what happened at your friend’s house, and when he prefaces the third time with “I’m going to give you one last chance,” the jig is up, and it’s time to confess everything. 3. A large vocabulary is an asset. If a family member has just confessed something regarding her sexual history, and you’re surprised by the news, search yo…

Meet the “New Age” Stephen Colbert

By Andrew Aghapour

…tional response, laughter being the emotional response, a form of weeping. Bonus: An Interview with Ultra Spiritual JP Sears Ultra Spiritual JP, is there an inherent conflict between religion and science? There’s no scientific basis to back up science. The fundamentalist scientists haven’t been willing to prove how science is actually scientific, because of their dogmatic beliefs. Wait, are you implying that science is a religion? Science is perha…

Catholics Choose Conscience Over Church

By Mary E. Hunt

…yer. Just as no one can tell an employee how to invest a salary or spend a bonus, neither can anyone prevent the use of money for birth control that is mandated by law. At the heart of the matter, as I read it, are two fundamental issues. The first is that the concept of religious freedom takes on new meaning in an increasingly secular society. This is the bishops’ nightmare, but it is simply a fact that more people are religiously undecided—wheth…

Are Academic Theologians Useless? Part II

By Tony Jones

…blog earns you ten points, and if Andrew Sullivan links to you, you get 25 bonus points. Posting 3-4 tweets a day earns you 15 points. Just do something, dammit. I’ll buy an iPod for the first person to 100. *And, as a postcript, here’s a quote from Umberto Eco posted by a thoughtful commenter on my blog last week: My answer was that this habit is common to all European intellectuals, in Germany, France, Spain, and, naturally, Italy: all countries…

How Orthodox Christianity Became the Spiritual Home of White Nationalism

By Katherine Kelaidis

…battered by Muslims and Marxists, in which to make his stand. As an added bonus, he can defend the Catholic faith in a national church. The Orthodox communion is governed through a highly decentralized, synodical system in which 15 self-governing churches—traditionally organized along national/ethnic lines—act with autonomy. While this system of ecclesiastical governance predates by centuries modern concepts of race and nationalism, for a nationa…

Katie Couric, Reincarnated

By Michael Schulson

…History, distant lands; studios and cafes: you can occupy them. And, as a bonus, families can get reunited in life after life—“we come into lifetimes often with the same people,” Weiss explains—so there’s a wholesome message here, too. Reincarnation is the rare topic that provokes both scientists and the Southern Baptist Convention. But, as quack-ish doctors and bold religious repackaging goes, Couric’s reincarnation episode doesn’t seem so bad a…

Declining Southern Baptists Double Down on Homophobia

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ntion is getting ready to double down on its anti-gay message. As an added bonus, their condemnation has gone all inclusive as they take special aim at the transgender community, who, up until now, had been largely ignored by the conservative Protestant denomination. As members gather this week in Baltimore, Md., for their annual meeting, Albert Mohler Jr., president of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, has already fired the opening salvo…

Aliens in America

By Amir Hussain

…Quest, was the only Muslim I could identify on television, with the added bonus that he was also a fellow East Indian. However, I was puzzled as to how a child could have made the pilgrimage to Mecca and earned the title of “Hajji,” and as someone who spoke Urdu/Hindi and Punjabi, I had no idea what his magic words “sim sim salabim” meant. There was an Arab character (Cpl. Max Klinger), played by Jamie Farr on M*A*S*H, but he was a Lebanese Chris…