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Pricey Tickets, Cranky Citizens, and Priests Behind Bars as Philadelphia Prepares For Papal Visit

By Anthea Butler

…to continue to shrink into the insularity and disorganization that caused the Philadelphia Archdiocese to decline so precipitously? It remains to be seen. Meanwhile, faithful Catholics and others who want to see the Pope may be losing heart. 10,000 tickets for the Pope’s Speech at Independence Mall sold out in two minutes on Tuesday, with 394k people trying their best to get a few. Tickets are already being scalped at $100 and up on craigslist. I…

Is Mitt’s Mormonism Responsible for South Carolina Loss?

By Joanna Brooks

…grip on the religious vote. Pew Forum data from last weekend’s contest in South Carolina shows that evangelical Christians did play a major role in the Gingrich victory. Of the two-thirds of Republican voters who self-described as “born-again” or “evangelical,” 44% voted for Gingrich, 22% for Romney, and 21% for Santorum. This is a reversal of fortunes from New Hampshire, where, Pew data shows, Romney actually won among evangelicals: 31% of self-…

Amazing Grace: Obama Hits a Blue Note in Charleston

By Peter Manseau

…” heard last week at the memorial service of Reverend Clementa Pinckney in Charleston was clearly part of the black church tradition. Barack Obama is no Al Green, but in the words of Questlove from the hiphop soul band The Roots, the president’s rendition included “the blackest blues note ever,” an echo of both the enduring significance of this English hymn to African American culture, and its apocryphal history as a melody born on a slave ship. A…

Emanuel’s Pulse: A Plea for Black Church–LGBTIQ Solidarity

By J. Kameron Carter

…touch. Communal feeling, or feeling commune-ion, blackness is an alternate sanctum, an otherwise sanctuary, an ecology or constellation of joyous practices of re/assemblage-amid-disassemblage. Quantum communions, quantum solidarities. Orlando’s Pulse is this too. This is a moment for unequivocal black church and queer/ LGBT solidarity because antiblackness and homophobia and transphobia are interconnected. More still, in the face of Trump’s doubli…

Dog Whistles and Holes in the Masterpiece Cakeshop Arguments?

By Patrick Hornbeck

…gender, religion, and sexual orientation. “[R]ace is particularly unique,” Francisco said, and “pretty much anything but race would fall in the same category.” On one level, Waggoner and Francisco were simply echoing an extensive series of rulings that have recognized that the government has a particularly compelling interest in preventing racial discrimination, as in the 1968 case Newman v. Piggie Park Enterprises when the Court refused to counte…

The New Disciples: Report from South Carolina

By Sarah Posner

…led to fulfill the Christian right’s wish to vanquish Mitt Romney.) At the South Carolina Citizens for Life Rally in Columbia on Saturday, that conventional story was on view: voters for whom abortion is the number one motivating issue, trying to send that message to both candidates and observers. There, on the statehouse steps, another kind of conservative evangelicalism was on view: that of Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar of 19 Kids and Counting fam…

Mile-High Identity Politics: What We Can Learn From the Same-Sex Seating Controversy

By Eboo Patel

…, not the fourth century … You’re not free to practice your religion in my airline seat.’ ‘This is male entitlement .. the height of male arrogance.’ One comment referred to this as a ‘back of the bus’ issue; as in, women being asked to move in such circumstances was tantamount to assigning them a lesser status as citizens and lower dignity as human beings. Other readers proposed that airlines set aside special seating for men requiring such accom…

Everything Was Better When We Had God In Our Schools

By Hollis Phelps

…en committed suicide by shooting himself in the head. • February 12, 1909, San Francisco, California. 10-year-old Dorothy Malakanoff was shot and killed by 49-year-old Demetri Tereaschinko as she arrived at her school in San Francisco. Tereaschinko then shot himself in a failed suicide attempt. Tereaschinko was reportedly upset that Malakanoff refused to elope with him. • January 10, 1912, Warrenville, Illinois. Sylvester E. Adams shot and killed…

Burning Down the Temple: Religion and Irony in Black Rock City

By Sarah M. Pike

…out the city this year, as did artwork addressing rites of passage such as San Francisco based artist Peter Hudson’s Charon: a three-dimensional stroboscopic zoetrope of life-sized skeletons rowing across the river Styx. Just to make sure Burners don’t take any beliefs they brought with them too seriously, Burning Man abounds with parodies of organized religion. Although it is billed as an art festival, it is also a lively site of religious critic…

The Key to Understanding the Federalist Society Isn’t Originalism — It’s This 800-Year Old Tradition

By Peter Schwartz

…notions of “human dignity” and “human flourishing,” Catholic natural law—an 800-year-old tradition dating back to Thomas Aquinas—is a lens that offers utter clarity to conservative Catholic jurists, activists, policymakers, and scholars as they observe, describe, and engage the world. The power and sharpness of this lens allow them to confidently snap every human movement—every human desire and motive and act—into its divinely appointed and proper…