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Pope Francis Brokers End to Cuba Embargo, Despite Opposition of Catholic Pols

By Michelle Gonzalez Maldonado

…ece on RD, the Catholic Church has been an agent of reconciliation for the island, whether it was bringing together Cubans and Cuban-Americans on the island to commemorate Cuba’s patron saint, Our Lady of Charity, or being a key voice regarding human rights violations by the Castro regimes. I’m not surprised that Francis had a hand in this historic moment. The first Latin American pope has played a key role in transforming the political landscape…

Religious Liberty…For Bishops

By Tom Davis

…ans called the “cesspool of vice,” i.e. Rhode Island. Fortunately, down in Rhode Island was Roger Williams who established the American tradition that no religion was more important than any other. In the recent political fight over whether the Affordable Care Act can require religious institutions that serve and employ people of all faiths (and no faith) to provide insurance that will cover contraception without co-pay, the media coverage seems t…

Not Quite the Abraham Lincoln of the Anti-Marriage Equality Movement

By Peter Montgomery

…-day Abraham Lincoln. NOM calls her testimony against marriage equality in Rhode Island “The Gettysburg Address of the Marriage Movement.” That would be a bold assertion for any political speech, but it’s just laughable when applied to Morse’s bitter diatribe. Morse recounts all the terrible things she fully expects that the legislature, and gay rights supporters generally, are going to do in “the great social civil war of our time.” And she is on…

Is the Growing Anti-Pope ‘Rad-Trad’ Community Poised to Become ‘Qatholics’? History Isn’t Encouraging

By Joshua P Hevert and Thomas Lecaque

…Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter (FSSP)’s church of St Mary in Providence, Rhode Island, for possession and transfer of child pornography. The response thus far has been interesting—the FSSP released a statement saying they were shocked and saddened and fully cooperating with law enforcement. Some parishioners insisted he was innocent and that he might have been framed; not solely because they love their priest, but because of an ongoing conflict…

A Meditation on Shopping and Desire

By Michelle Gonzalez Maldonado

…We have an unprecedented access to cheap goods, yet we must recognize that cheap goods are cheaply made. I am not speaking of quality, I am speaking of cheap labor. We must recognize that through the act of shopping, whether it is for an article of clothing, a toy, a pint of strawberries, or even our morning cup of coffee, we participate in a global economy that values profit over people. Disposable goods are made by disposable people, faceless in…

Are Evangelical Films Destined to Leave Secular Audiences Behind?

By Daniel Silliman

…e success either. The opening weekend saw sales of more than $6 million in tickets. That’s the kind of number that will inspire others to try and figure out the formula for the faith-and-family blockbuster. Yet, with the cost of the film reportedly exceeding $30 million, it’s an open question whether or not the Left Behind reboot will get a second installment. The marketing problem of evangelical movies is still, stubbornly, a problem. The general…

The Faith that Faith Produced

By Haroon Moghul

…ou’ll read an excerpt below—has surprised me, too. I wish I could find my airline companion and give him this book, to surprise him, too—in a good way. (I would accept Lakers tickets in lieu of apologies, but I think that particular era is done.) This whole book is a result of a profound evolution, and needs to be seen as such. American Muslims have gone through a lot over the last few decades. We were never the caricature Islamophobes made us ou…

Corporations Have Consciences and Contraceptives Are Cheap: Hobby Lobby at the Supreme Court

By Sarah Posner

At oral argument in Sebelius v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc. and Conestoga Wood Specialties, Inc. v. Sebelius this morning, the Supreme Court justices spent a great deal of time questioning the lawyers in the case about whether corporations have a religious conscience, and whether Congress intended to protect it when enacting the 1993 Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA). What was most striking, though, was how all three female justices, Sonia So…

‘Almost Like Praying’: The Religious Work of ‘Hamilton’ Creator Lin-Manuel Miranda

By Spencer Dew

…ions of the exceptional imperial state and the far-flung colony: the “ugly island,” “Island of tropic diseases./ Always the hurricanes blowing, / Always the population growing . . . / And the money owing, / And the babies crying, / And the bullets flying.” That song goes on to cast doubt on the reliability of both electricity and roads in San Juan, bitterly ironic in the current catastrophic moment but nasty enough in the original to read like Kip…

How Not To Respond to Haiti

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…these soldiers were Poles, not French, and many stayed) was landed on the island, but illness decimated the troops and they finally surrendered on January 1, 1804. Since then, the small island nation’s fortunes have waxed and waned, often in tandem with American military occupation. In this, her story is like many others, deeply saddening, and offering a glimpse into the “dark side” of the European Renaissance (this is the marvelous title of Walt…