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US Catholic Bishops Elect a Culture Warrior

By Marian Ronan

…illage to lead a vespers service for the local chapter of Pax Christi, the international Catholic peace association on the anniversary of the birth of Dorothy Day, one of the great leaders of the US Catholic peace movement. Word on the street here is that Dolan is a much nicer man than Cardinal Edward Egan, his predecessor as archbishop of New York. And he certainly did smile a lot at the vespers, and sounded convincing when he thanked Pax Christi…

Focus on the Family Cashes in on Anti-Gay “Day of Truth”

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…there is only religious bullying in the guise of “dialogue.” If this were truly about dialoguing—as Same-Sex Marriage News points out—why isn’t Focus on the Family having “dialogue days” about other behaviors it should supposedly be against? If this movement isn’t driven by anti-gay bigotry, then where is the outrage and “Day of Truth” over heterosexuals who are engaging in sex outside of marriage? Why aren’t Christians running around confronting…

Homosexual Thoughts and Feelings Not a Sin, Says New LDS Handbook

By Joanna Brooks

…ld repent for having “homosexual thoughts or feelings.” 3. Removes the instruction that Church leaders should refer members to professional counseling. This is especially significant because in times past leaders were encouraged to refer members to practitioners of reparative therapy such as Evergreen International. Reparative therapy has been discredited by scientists and professionals and, in some instances—including the electroshock aversion th…

Cuba Opens its Doors to the Catholic Church

By Michelle Gonzalez Maldonado

…blessed the cornerstone of the seminary, which was funded by a variety of international organizations, including the Knights of Columbus. Cuban Cardinal Jaime Ortega warmly greeted Castro at the inauguration, saying “In the name of the Church, I thank both the former president, as well as current President Raul Castro, who honors us with his presence, for the state’s support of this work.” The significance of Wenski, Castro, and Ortega together a…

Waterboarding in the Living Room

By Sarah Sentilles

…tention and interrogation in countries where—in the CIA’s view—federal and international legal safeguards do not apply; in other words, to countries that torture. The U.S. has long been engaged in torture: from the genocide of native peoples, to the lynching of African Americans, to the School of the Americas, to the Tuskegee Institute, to the treatment of prisoners in US prisons. And, as this most recent case shows, US torture culture is not limi…

Can a Greek Monastery Be Ground Zero of Global Financial Meltdown?

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…which Lewis has little to say. Greece was singularly ravaged by the Second World War; the German occupation was especially brutal there, with one million deaths from starvation recorded in the first winter alone. President Truman declared Greece to be the European front in the new Cold War, and a three-year civil war, from 1946-1949, further decimated the country. The country opted for tourism in the 1960s, arguably the least “trickle-down” of all…

Foreclosure, Fraud and Pharaoh

By Daniel Schultz

…eptive words.’ It doesn’t take much imagination to connect the dots here. True, Pharaoh didn’t use fraudulent documents to maintain his economic edge. But when the average people cry out for relief, they’re called lazy (or irresponsible) by those who control the economy. That much is the same. And instead of a respite, the avenues of relief are closed off and the people are told to work harder and pay no attention to the rabble-rousers who dare su…

Gays to Ex-Gay Movement: “Lift My Luggage”

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ther they agree with them or not,” said Alan Chambers, President of Exodus International, the group that sponsored the event this year. Called the Day of Truth, the annual April event has been pushed by influential conservative Christian groups as a way to counter the annual Day of Silence, an event promoted by gay rights advocates to highlight threats against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender students. Perhaps Exodus is beginning to come to…

MRI Jesus, Bush’s Reading List, Ahmadinejad & the Pope…

By Michael J. Altman

…t the priest was forbidden from revealing the confession to administrators. Pope Benedict denounced the mafia. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad wrote a letter thanking the Pope for denouncing the planned Qur’an burnings in Florida. In the wake of recent teen bullying, Christian group Exodus International has decided to pull its support of the “Day of Truth,” an event that encourages school students to “counter the promotion of homosexual beha…

Something is Rotten in Denmark

By Hussein Rashid

…t, no one would’ve cared about this anniversary, so they shouldn’t make an international situation out of it. Second, even if they felt they needed to be alert, but not alarmed, empowering the people most likely to lash out is not constructive. Third, if you create an environment where Danish Muslims feel engaged and part of the society, it’s a lot harder for false indignation to gain traction overseas. This is an unfortunate decision by the Danis…