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New Book Stokes Fear of a Muslim Europe

By Bruce B. Lawrence

…world politics. Europe did not produce refugees or victims but it has to house them, and these same refugees and/or victims of other people’s wars now threaten the very fabric of their own “insecure, malleable, relativistic culture.” The primary danger, therefore, is immigration. In a catalogue of problems facing 21st-century Europe, Caldwell puts immigration at the head of the list: “immigration, Islamism, bankruptcy of welfare states, financial…

Muslim Women “Warriors”

By Frances Kissling

…rsity. Shariah is already interpreted differently from country to country, used and abused to justify practices that limit women’s human rights. Women are stoned to death and imprisoned for adultery, and even for reporting rape. Custody laws, which automatically award children to husbands, keep women in abusive marriages. In some countries, women can be divorced without their consent and with no provision for support. So-called honor killings go u…

Archbishop’s Theology is Wearing No Clothes

By Mary E. Hunt

…site of what is intended. For example, Dolan describes how China and North Korea supposedly “‘redefine’ rights, relationships, value, and natural law” on a regular basis via “communiqués from the government,” versus how we exalted Westerners handle the issues. In doing so, he describes exactly how the Vatican operates. Another reversal is his take on certain rights “like that of a child to be raised in a family with a mom and a dad.” He offers not…

Our Lady of Good Hope and Excellent Behavior: Why this Apparition and Why Now?

By Lisa Bitel

…on. Meanwhile, the Virgin keeps descending to obscure locations in Rwanda, Korea, Australia, and across Latin America and the borderlands of America and Mexico. The number of apparitions in the U.S. seems to keep rising, but not because of Belgian immigrants to Wisconsin. What seems to be an increase in apparitions is probably a jump in reports of apparitions and manifestations of the Virgin. Rumors of miracles and visions now fly around the globe…

Note to the Tax-Slashers:
We Are Already Serfs

By Peter Laarman

…rify them in our leisure…We take up collections for our public schools because we feel the fortunes of the rich ought to go unencumbered by that burden. Our leaders in Washington are considering cutting Social Security because retaining it might require the rich to chip in more than their current percentage. If it’s a choice between us spending our dotage in helplessness and filth and our high-net-worth friends having to forgo next year’s Learjet,…

The Shared Assumption Behind Creationism and Anti-GMO in Europe

By Michael Schulson

…ople take from the American creationist version whatever elements they can use within their own cultural context. In the United States, it’s very important to creationists that one can give at least the impression of [creationism] being a science. So you have the development of scientific creationism, intelligent design, under the pressure of the First Amendment. But you don’t have something like that in England. English creationists are much less…

At the UN, Conservative Christian Agenda Cloaked in Human Rights Language

By Austin Dacey

…vism against LGBTQ equality and public health policies that include condom use. Slater’s Family Watch International (FWI) has been deeply involved in promoting abstinence-and fidelity-only initiatives in Uganda and has praised Nigeria—where same-sex couples can face up to 14 years in prison or stoning at the hands of Sharia courts—as “a strong role model” for other regional governments “on how to hold on to their family values despite intense inte…

Well, the Harris-Trump Debate Happened — Now Enjoy Your Freedom and Choose Wisely

By Mary Rambaran-Olm

…nd the world were surprised to learn that Harris is actually a Marxist because her Dad is a Marxist professor somewhere and because (just like Jesus) we’re always exactly like our Dads. According to Trump, babies in the US will be executed by Harris when they’re born. Which might have been a valid point were he referencing her comment that she wanted to “[ensure] that we have the most lethal fighting force in the world”—a fighting force that conti…

What American Flag-Worship Looks Like to a New Citizen

By Rosalind C. Hughes

…terim Dean at St Paul’s Episcopal Cathedral in Buffalo, NY, grew up in the South in a fairly conservative religious household. He encountered the Flag at school and at church, at Boy Scouts – “there was a whole lot of saluting of the flag,” he told me. In high school, where he and his friends were among the first African Americans to integrate a previously all-white school, the Pledge was recited before football games; then the National Anthem was…

Global LGBT Recap: World Vision Caves, World Congress of Families Vamps, God Weeps

By Peter Montgomery

…this word it seems that there is an intrinsic judgment yet. I struggle to use it. Therefore, we need a cultural transition, because difference is wealth. What matters above all is the dignity of the person.” And Sister Joan Chittister, a longtime progressive voice in the American Catholic Church, wrote a column in National Catholic Reporter last week contrasting two general approaches to religion: “Here’s the problem with religion. You never know…