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Why Crux‘s Knights of Columbus “Partnership” is Problematic

By Kaya Oakes

…ughlin, columns from Margery Eagan, and Rome reporting from Allen and Ines San Martin. The Boston Globe’s reputation for fierce honesty in its church coverage helped bolster the site, and Allen’s decades of experience, coupled with the skill of its writing staff, made the site an important voice. In the small hive that is Catholic journalism, Crux had a lot of buzz. What it did not have was a lot of money. The Globe’s strategy was to hopefully att…

Fact Check: Is the Evangelical Youth-Inspired Great ‘Awokening’ Just Around the Corner?

By Chrissy Stroop

…y “came out” as no longer evangelical. But it wasn’t until that moment, in San Francisco with my always “deep,” cooler-than-thou, “rebellious” cousin, that I was wholly disabused of the notion that young evangelicals were differentiating from their parents on social and political issues in any substantive way. Unfortunately, America’s major media outlets still haven’t gotten the memo. To be sure, anyone can cite anecdotes and claim to intuit a tre…

I Was a Stranger: New York Activists Stage a Lenten Action for Sanctuary

By Kaya Oakes

…other.” He added that the church should be “true to its values” and offer sanctuary in the event of mass deportations. Even San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone, widely known as an ultra-conservative “culture warrior,” promised that immigrants in his diocese would “know their rights” and be “protected.” The Matthew 25 activists in New York hope Dolan will offer the same. One source I spoke to, a housing attorney and lay Catholic, told me…

Religious Right Targets Obama Picks, Daschle and Holder

By Bill Berkowitz

…nt, an in-depth analysis of precincts in Alameda, Los Angeles, Sacramento, San Diego and San Francisco Counties yielded a substantially lower level of support, around 58 percent. Nearly two-thirds of California’s African-American Voters live in those counties.” The full report, “California’s Prop. 8: What Happened and What Does the Future Hold?” is available here (pdf). Conference on Race, Religion and Rhetoric: “Americans at the Pulpit and in the…

Federal Judge Declares Prop. 8 “Unconstitutional”

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…de in American jurisprudence. Here we have an openly gay (according to the San Francisco Chronicle) federal judge substituting his views for those of the American people and of our Founding Fathers who I promise you would be shocked by courts that imagine they have the right to put gay marriage in our Constitution. We call on the Supreme Court and Congress to protect the people’s right to vote for marriage,” she said. Newt Gingrich, a former Congr…

Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s Heretic: With Friends Like These, Who Needs Jihadis?

By Haroon Moghul

…d and sclerotic autocrats out of the way. There can be no progress without freedom. And there can be no freedom if we are stuck believing in people, like Hirsi Ali and her ilk, who don’t believe in the kinds of analysis that leave room for debate, discussion, and growth. I know from personal experience how hard it is to fight the mentality that produces and sustains extremism. Case in point: I don’t think Hirsi Ali is deliberately misrepresenting…

How Should Mormons Respond to Leader’s Anti-Gay Comments?

By Joanna Brooks

…mons is organizing a “Stand Up to Youth Suicide March” at 6:30 p.m. at the San Francisco Civic Center. The march on Friday is in conjunction with Affirmation’s annual conference, which is being held in San Francisco this year and which will feature workshops on standing up to suicide, standing up for understanding and standing up for equality. With the prominence of LGBT suicides the past month, the march is sadly poignant and important. There’s m…

God Makes an Independent Film

By Eric Zassenhaus

…ywhere. For the initial funding, Gazowsky manages to raise hundreds of thousands of dollars from churchgoers and anonymous donors, with the promise of millions more to come from a mysterious donor in Germany. Their task: to produce a visionary film for the spectator on high—as Gazowsky constantly reminds us—“an audience of One.” And so the members of Christian WYSIWYG Productions set off, a ragtag troupe of family members, church members, and volu…

The Next Generation of the Pro-Life Movement

By Bill Berkowitz

…hing voice for the pre-born!” There’s even a short “ProLife Training Camp” promotional video: The Faithful Soldier School of Evangelism’s Jason Storms is married to Sara Trewhella, a longtime anti-abortion activist and the daughter of Matt Trewhella, founder and head of the militant anti-abortion group Missionaries to the Preborn. Matt Trewhella once urged anti-abortion activists to get involved in militias. On Facebook, Storms also claims to be a…

Cuba Opens its Doors to the Catholic Church

By Michelle Gonzalez Maldonado

…The significance of Wenski, Castro, and Ortega together at the Seminary of San Carlos and San Ambrosio, a symbolic trinity of Cubans’ and Cuban-Americans’ negotiations between identity, land, and religion, is not lost on me. For the Catholic Church globally, this opening is a public testimony of the survival of Catholicism in spite of increasing clergy shortages throughout other parts of Latin America. While many are heralding this as the beginnin…