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US Archbishop and Vatican-Appointed “Overseer” Attends Annual Meeting of Women Religious

By Emily Baxter

…the LCWR following last year’s harsh assessment of American nuns. The Vatican came down hard on American sisters last year, admonishing them for doing too much “social justice” work, disagreeing with Church teaching on gay people, and propagating “radical feminist themes.” Not surprisingly, this assessment hung over much of the discussions and speeches at the LCWR assembly. The goings on at the assembly shed light on the current fraught relations…

My God, David Brooks

By John Modern

…bborn optimism of Taylor, but I get downright pissed when I encounter what can only be called a blissed-out reading of Taylor by someone who should know better. To frame modernity as a profusion of choice leaves the very concept of choice unexamined. And this has always been my fear about the reception of Taylor’s tome. As Saba Mahmood has suggested, Taylor does take into account how attitudes, conventions, and sensibilities play a role in the mak…

Catholic Church Ordained Women Before, Can Do it Again

By Phyllis Zagano

…ek. But the essay says what it says: women were ordained with nearly identical liturgical formulae as men, and served in a recognized diaconate in the early churches. So I fielded a team of scholars to work with me on the translation. An historical theologian, Amanda Quantz at St. Mary’s in Kansas did the first draft. Carmela Leonforte-Plimack, whose Ph.D. is from the University of Rome assisted me in refining the translation. Archimandrite Robert…

What To Do When Fred Phelps Arrives in Your Neighborhood

By Susan Henking

…sides. Risks include endemic couch potato-hood and more. Fantasy picketing can be escapist and prevent “real” dissent; somewhat like Marcuse’s idea that weekends or vacations prevent us from recognizing and acting on the fact that our work lives are truly oppressive. Or, fantasy picketing could prime the pump of protest and change. Certainly the strategy of using umbrellas to hide the distasteful words of Fred Phelps (forcing him into his own tiny…

Are Atheists Taking 1st Amendment Suits Too Far?

By Gordon Haber

…either entirely solid nor porous. The better metaphor might be No Exit with a pastor and an atheist damned to each other’s company. These cases have huge implications for American religion, but regardless of which way they go, expect more litigation….

Violent, Genocidal Anti-Palestinian Rhetoric Moving to US?

By David Sheen

…ssault on Gaza enters its fourth week, however, we are witnessing a significant rhetorical departure. Yet as reprehensible as remarks from American Jewish leaders have been, the dehumanizing discourse among political and religious leaders in Israel—where I live and work—has for years been moving toward the grotesque. The images that have emerged from the Gaza Strip over the past three weeks of Israel’s assault, and the fact that the vast majority…

Lifestyles of the Rich and Pious

By Patricia Miller

…literally than some of their fellow prelates. Here’s a rundown: • New York Cardinal Timothy “Capitalism is King but you can get your birth control at 7-11” Dolan lives in a 15,000-square foot neo-Gothic mansion on Madison Avenue appraised at $30 million. • Cardinal Francis George of Chicago, who warned a few years back that the local gay pride parade might “morph into something like the Ku Klux Klan,” lives in a “one of a kind,” 19-chimneyed mansi…

New Poll: Repeal DOMA

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…tes’ rights on this issue perhaps they shouldn’t be. Potential 2012 Republican presidential candidates like Texas Congressman Ron Paul and former Louisiana governor Buddy Roemer are already talking about leaving marriage to the states. Paul said the bottom line is that government shouldn’t get involved and that people shouldn’t need a license to get married. “My position is it’s a personal, spiritual matter.” He said it becomes the state’s concern…

Can Faith-Based Organizing for Gun Control Work?

By Sarah Posner

…enting abortion—but pamphlets that detail the number of gun deaths in America, the number of mass shootings, the number of accidents, the number of suicides. The movement would have more than these grassroots activists. It would have willing politicians, a legal strategy, and lots of money. All of these components would work in tandem to change people’s minds, to pressure lawmakers, to intimidate politicians running for office, to go to court when…

Where Polls and Surveys Fall Short: A Conversation with Robert Wuthnow on “Inventing American Religion”

By Andrew Aghapour

…ng] that evangelicals were a voting bloc. That made sense to journalists because Catholics were a voting bloc for John F. Kennedy in 1960—so surely evangelicals must have been a voting bloc for Jimmy Carter. That wasn’t the case at all. Some of the leading, most powerful, influential evangelical leaders were actually for Gerald Ford. There was a lot of diversity among evangelicals themselves that got masked by being lumped together in the polls as…