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Vatican Council on Women Would Be Funny Were it Not So Insulting

By Mary E. Hunt

…of kyriarchal Catholic life, beginning with the most personal matters of sexuality and reproduction. Women also expect transparency of ourselves, one another, and our organizations. Let the structures and modes of decision-making in the Catholic community be laid bare, and then see if we all agree on how things work. I doubt it, and I know there are better ways to organize even a billion plus member organization. There are simply no excuses for du…

Without Health Care Reform We’ll All Die!!

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ce you accept the reality of the situation and calm your emotions, you can better see your way out of it. Take the health care reform debate for example. Those of us who support health care reform need to stop complaining about the rabble rousers at town hall meetings and instead acknowledge that “all events have led up to now.” The question then becomes, what do we do about it? Health care reform advocates believe that logic, reason, and the utte…

Patriotism and Piety—Not For Conservatives Only

By Ira Chernus

…have long been afraid of. But most Americans have always wanted religion mixed into their politics, and for the foreseeable future they always will. It makes no sense to cede this nexus to the right. Instead, we should recognize that there is a right way and wrong way to do it, insist that it be done the right way, and get to work. Of course many liberals already do. And there lies the good news. The United States has a rich heritage of liberal (a…

Sikh Temple Shooting: Of Martian Rovers and Terror in Holy Spaces

By Jodi Eichler-Levine

…harnessing our collective intelligence and technological capabilities to explore a truly alien landscape. I am reminded of how both the text and radio broadcast of War of the Worlds occurred at moments of great population and political shifts in the United Kingdom and the United States. Aliens, vampires, and other monsters—these otherworldly beings are often metaphors for our this-worldly ways of organizing difference. Jeffrey Jerome Cohen calls…

Vatican Official Challenges Excommunication in Brazil

By Frances Kissling

…ectively in good conscience decide that abortion was morally justified in extreme cases? And, what I ask is an extreme case. While in the Archbishop’s mind abortion rarely presents a life against life dilemma, the fact that he acknowledges any moral discretion for physicians is extremely important. In a Latin American context, where abortion is increasingly being decriminalized (Mexico City, Colombia in the last two years) physicians are carefully…

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Decadence, Sickness, and Death: Mourning and the Israel-Hamas War

By Shaul Magid

…n act of dehumanization. The problem here is that there is almost no space between explanation and justification—on either side. One is thus being forced to choose sides and express empathy only for one. Any gesture of empathy for innocents on the other side quickly evokes the accusation of moral equivalency at the very least—self-hatred and treason at most. So it must be said, decades of humiliation, domination, and the deaths of many men, women…

The Man in the Red Dress: My Unlikely Friendship with Cardinal Francis George

By Cathleen Falsani

…media as a few of his brother cardinals did at the zenith of the clergy sex abuse scandal). He also didn’t lie to us (at least not as far as I know), which is an all-too-often rare experience among religious leaders, whether in the throes of crisis or not. For many years as a religion journalist, and even as a columnist where I was supposed to offer my opinion and perspective, I kept my own spiritual and religious predilections to myself lest I a…

Who’s Accusing Who of Mormon-Baiting?

By Joanna Brooks

…eports like Donohue’s and Deal’s are cropping up, and Mormons are feeling extra sensitive about the fate of the nation’s first major party presidential candidate. But I’ll bet you a twelve pack of caffeine-free Diet Coke and a dozen pink-frosted sugar cookies that there is no anti-Mormon phonebanking script in use by Catholics for Obama. Anywhere. Is anti-Mormonism real? Yes. But even if one poorly-trained rogue phonebanker veered off script into…

Pagan Soccer Mom Wins Blog Contest Despite “Biblical Womanhood” Opposition

By Julie Ingersoll

…tly thought they own the category of faith (though Circle of Moms doesn’t exhibit any signs of being explicitly religious). It turns out that someone in the community of Pagan and Witch moms, many of whom also homeschool, nominated Mrs. B at the blog Confessions of a Pagan Soccer Mom. Then many of the biblical women got concerned about witches and pagans in the contest, expressing shock and horror. They organized to vote for the Christians and app…

‘Soul Murder’ in the American Workplace

By Peter Laarman

…e dinner parties with seemingly inexplicable rants over NAFTA, I could be expected to wax wroth over the big yawn with which the corporate media greeted the August employment numbers on Friday (the commonest headline: “Job Losses Smaller Than Expected”). And wax wroth I shall. Okay, corporatized newsies: You say that “only” 216,000 jobs disappeared last month? Folks, we’ve got 15 million people without jobs and in desperate shape out there. Toss i…