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By Candace Chellew-Hodge

In the 16th century it was Johann Tetzel, a German Dominican preacher who caught the ire of Martin Luther by his shameless selling of indulgences. His famous sales pitch went something like this, “As soon as the coin into the box rings, a soul from purgatory to heaven springs.” The elector of Saxony and Luther defender, Frederick the Wise, had banned Tetzel from Wittenberg. But, to Luther’s shock, his parishioners would travel to see Tetzel and r…

Just Call Me Marie: When Women Become Priests

By Rosemary Ganley

…line courses, for ordination. Bishop Fresen’s is another dramatic story. A Dominican nun from South Africa with a doctorate in theology, she taught homiletics to Catholic seminarians in Johannesburg but wasn’t allowed to preach herself in Catholic churches. “We in South Africa have learned that the response to an unjust law is to break it,” she says. Leaving her community, she moved to Germany, learned German, and was ordained bishop in a secret c…

What Would Ai Weiwei Do? What the Smashing of a Million-Dollar Artwork Has to Teach Us

By S. Brent Rodriguez Plate

…tradition itself. This week, Ai’s artwork is back in the news. On Sunday, Dominican-born artist named Maximo Caminero walked into the Pérez Art Museum in Miami and smashed one of the vases that was part of Ai Weiwei’s Colored Vases display. Caminero’s complaint? That local galleries put all their time and effort into international artists of high esteem, and forsake the locals. So here’s the thing: iconoclasm is itself an iconic act. One image re…

A Catholic Turnabout on Abortion or More Sympathy for the Bishops?

By Daniel C. Maguire

…urch of San Marco, they might pay homage at the tomb of St. Antoninus, the Dominican former Archbishop of Florence. Antoninus was the premier moral theologian on the subject of sex and marriage. He approved of early abortions when necessary to save the life of the woman—a large category in the medical and hygienic conditions of his day. Far from having been condemned he was canonized a saint in 1523. His feast day is on May 10. I would like to rai…

Is It Proper For Scientists to Host Religion Prize?

By Lauri Lebo

Evolutionary geneticist and ordained Dominican priest Francis Ayala has been honored with the Templeton prize. The $1.6 million award goes to those grappling with the answers to “life’s biggest questions” and to a living person who has made an “exceptional contribution to affirming life’s spiritual dimension.” “Science and religion are two pillars on which American society rests,” said Ayala, a professor of biology and philosophy at the Universit…

Vatican Reverses Anti-Liberation Policies in Mexico

By Ruth Chojnacki and Jennifer Scheper Hughes

…he diocese’s majority indigenous population with pastoral innovations that promoted liberation on the ground. With financial support from Mexico’s Papal Nuncio, the bishop established schools for catechists that drew scores of Maya indigenous to San Cristóbal where they encountered the Catholic teachings of Vatican II and, for the first time in Maya history, were entrusted with the Bible. After a period of church testing and consultation with loca…

Religious Freedom in Post-Castro Cuba

By Lygia Navarro

…rch in Santiago. Under Raul, the government has publicly taken measures to promote openness—doubling the page count of Cuba’s main newspaper, publicizing reports of corruption in state-run businesses, organizing employee gatherings for Cubans to discuss problems and inefficiencies in the workplace—yet many Cubans complain of a controlled social stagnation which has gone largely unaltered for decades. While the nation’s future is still unknown, in…

How a 15th Century Book on Witchcraft Helps Make Sense of Trump’s Bizarre Baby Execution Story

By Karen E. Park

…d whose murder was attributed to the local Jewish community by a fanatical Dominican monk. Soon though, stories of “blood libel” became divorced from even the most rudimentary burden of proof or narrative complexity. “BloodlLibel” became simply common knowledge; it was “what Jews do,” just as surely as witches steal penises and sacrifice babies to Satan. Just as in Trump’s world, American women wrap newborn babies beautifully, rock them briefly, a…

The Ryan Report on Child Abuse in Ireland

By Eugene C. Bianchi

…Cardinal Mahony and his lawyers are fighting lawsuits. Thomas P. Doyle, a Dominican priest and leading expert on clerical child abuse, has pointed out that the problem is not accidental but systemic. It is deeply engrained in Irish child care culture. Doyle claims that church authorities from the pope to local bishops and religious superiors knew about the abuses and condoned or ignored them. Church leadership, satisfied with denials, apologies a…

The Benedict Opt-Out: Why Christian Self-Isolation Won’t Work

By Kaya Oakes

…uld consider as a vocation.” Emily communicated with a cloistered order of Dominican women, but ultimately decided against that form of life. She was working in an intercultural ministerial context, and found that a diversity of “human cultures and means of interaction with one another, even in a purely non-religious way, were incredibly important for developing relationships.” She adds that “for any true injustices that I did see around me that r…