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Will Women Priests Change the Church?

By Mary E. Hunt

…are comments by Ronald P. Lengwin, priest spokesperson for the Diocese of Pittsburgh who has a weekly radio show called Amplify. He repeats and repeats the institution’s position that it simply cannot ordain women because Jesus did not do so, that the “deposit of faith” does not include it, that the “unity of the church” will be broken, and various other theologically discredited notions. He does so with the patience and equanimity of someone who…

Recent Debates Highlight Democrats’ Antisemitism Blind Spot—But It’s Not What You Think

By Nylah Burton

…ill is “a movement to suppress free speech and criticism of a foreign government. That’s a dangerous precedent.” Through this, Democrats are pushing Jews into an age-old antisemitic trope of being the ultimate oppressor. At the very least, Democrats should be honest about their own self-interest here, not hide behind Diaspora Jews—who are actually growing increasingly and more deeply critical of Israel. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, a foreign…

Why Immigration is Such a Key Motivator of Nationalist Aggression and Hostility

By Willie Young

…Kakar, Rithambra, an ascetic orator and ardent nationalist, describes government policies for inclusion of Muslims as “cutting open the Hindu chest” like the dissection of a frog, and compares Muslims’ presence in India to “a lemon in milk,” evoking both disgust and a sense of impurity. These images construct a sense of Muslims as violating national unity, or shredding and penetrating India’s boundaries. Figuring difference as violation evokes sha…

“Little Sisters” Being Sold As Face of Contraception Case

By Patricia Miller

…f six other plaintiffs, including the anti-abortion group Priests for Life and two Catholic dioceses. And who is this Zubik that the opponents of the mandate are so eager to hide behind the habits of the Little Sisters? He is Bishop David Zubik of Pittsburgh, whose diocese is challenging the accomondation. Apparently the Becket Fund isn’t too eager to remind anyone that it’s actually a bunch of old men who belong to one of the world’s most patriar…

“God” is Just Another Word: A Report From a Panel on the Role of Religious Speech in Government

By Bruce Ledewitz

…at repeats itself in America all the time. Walczak also warned that a government permitted to use God-language in general terms will next use God to promote political positions, such as the hypothetical government slogan, “God opposes abortion.” Both Clarkson and Walczak suggested that the proposal would be insulting to religious believers. Believers understand “God” to be God, and would certainly object to any suggestion that “God” really means s…

High Jewish Voter Turnout—and They Don’t Like Trump

By Gordon Haber

…hat Trump’s rhetoric is “very or somewhat responsible” for the massacre at Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life Synagogue. Even among Republican Jews, 31% believe Trump is “very or somewhat responsible. For American Jews, Israel is a still a big—if complicated—deal. While they remain emotionally attached to Israel, their dislike of Israeli policy is growing. The survey reports that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s favorability “has dropped to a nine-year…

Is This Finally the Reckoning for the Catholic Church on Sexual Abuse?

By Patricia Miller

…off the table. It was, admittedly, an odd arrangement, with the U.S. government in effect deferring to the government of the Catholic Church, an arrangement neither codified in the Constitution nor available to any other religion. But if this federal investigation does go forward—and it should be noted that it’s coming from the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Philadelphia, so it could be impeded by higher-ups in the Justice Department—it would be a lan…

Churchgoers, Stay Home—It’s The American Way

By Shelby Balik

…ssociation proclaimed in 1803, “family government is the basis of all government, and family religion of all religion.” Household prayer—part obligation, part spiritual impulse—undergirded the social and political order. Clergy guided families’ efforts with guidebooks for worship: prayers, hymns, and devotions; directions for leading Sabbath; and instructions for conducting funerals at home. Families typically designated space where parents catech…

Did Catholic Church Abuses Amount to “Organized Crime”?

By Patricia Miller

…dreds of children had been abused by at least 50 priests. According to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: Hundreds of children were molested, raped and destined to lasting psychological trauma by clerics whose abuses were covered up by their bishops, other superiors and even compliant law-enforcement officials in Blair and Cambria counties. It’s the conspiracy nature of the long-running pattern, with both church officials (including two consecutive bish…

Don’t Let Bigoted Campaigns Sour You to the Revolutionary Idea of Religious Freedom

By Frederick Clarkson

…nd passed unanimously in Washington DC. This year, Mayor William Peduto of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania issued a proclamation based on the model, as has Governor Ned Lamont of Connecticut. In Minnesota, State Senator John Marty and Rep. Todd Lippert plan to introduce a Joint Resolution in the House and Senate to permanently commemorate Religious Freedom Day in their state, much in the manner of the federally recognized Day. In a prepared statement Mar…