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New Doc Claiming Columbus was Jewish May Have Some Accuracy Issues — But There’s a Far Bigger Issue We Need to Reckon With

By Samira K. Mehta

…h lives in secret. Spain saw a second wave of conversos in 1410, following Dominican preaching campaigns that drew tens of thousands of Jews to Catholicism. Many of these Jews chose conversion after learning about Catholicism; they lived Catholic lives, persuaded by Catholic theology. Others, like some of those in the first wave, were compelled by the social and economic mobility Catholic belonging conferred throughout Spain. Both groups had Jewis…

The End of Roe Comes Courtesy of the Catholic Church — But From ‘The Dorothy Day Abortion Fund’ to ‘St. Vincent de Paul Vasectomy Clinic,’ Here Are Some Ideas for Catholics Looking to Make a Difference

By Mary E. Hunt

…itiated by U.S. Catholic bishops and lay people after Vatican II. But when participants at the three-day conference joined social issues like poverty, sexism, and militarism, with ecclesial issues like birth control, homosexuality, and the ban on women priests, most of the bishops took a powder. Annual CTA meetings kept some edge-of-the-pew Catholics in conversation with one another. The group has not, to my knowledge, been particularly public on…

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

By Karen E. Park

…e they could sometimes later be found in trees and birds nests, as in this passage: Finally, what shall we think about those witches who somehow take members in large numbers (twenty or thirty) and shut them up together in a birds’ nest or some box, where they move about like living members, eating oats or other feed? This has been seen by many and is a matter of common talk. But common as penis-stealing was, Kramer and Sprenger reserve their grea…

Galileo’s Issue Was Satire as Much as Science

By Arri Eisen

…the museum. Now, the new version of the place has added a few extra of his parts—more fingers, a vertebra—that were apparently snipped off for safekeeping by one of the folks who, demanding that his hero deserved a better burial place, moved his body to a more fitting resting place a century later, to share eternity with Michelangelo and Machiavelli. Galileo was reburied in a ceremony similar to that used for saints; this and the whole reliquary-r…

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

By Daniel C. Maguire

…ning. (A read of John Julius Norwich’s Absolute Monarchs: A History of the Papacy would likewise tame even the most extreme papal fever.) Steinfels faults O’Brien for his “minimization of the moral status of the unborn but developing human lives”—i.e. fetuses. Fetuses have moral status but their value does not trump all other values. Giving fetuses absolute value effectively divinizes them. This position is symbolized by anti-choice demonstrators…

Jesus, Santa, and Now Sound of Music‘s Mother Abbess?

By Shannen Dee Williams

…lavery as a child around 1686, Venerable Teresa Chikaba enteredthe Convent Dominican Sisters of Saint Mary Magdalene in Salamanca, Spain in 1703 and professed her vows as Therese Juliana of Saint Dominic in 1704. Generally regarded as the first black nun in a Spanish cloister, Chikabaremained in the convent until her death in 1748. She is currently under consideration for sainthood. In the nineteenth century, several American-born women of African…

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

By S. Brent Rodriguez Plate

…Dropping a Han Dynasty Urn. It is iconoclastic, smashing an object of the past and by extension smashing the 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…

End-Times Watcher Sees Satan in an Energy Drink

By William R. Black

…anyone with understanding calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a person. Its number is six hundred and sixty-six.” The author of Revelation meant that 666 was a person’s name turned into a number via the Jewish numerological practice of gematria. Since every Hebrew letter was also a number, the letters of a name could be added up to produce that person’s number. Here’s an example of gematria using an alphabet we’re more famil…

Catholic Leaders Offer Criticism, Support to Boxer Pacquiao After Anti-Gay Comments…

By Peter Montgomery

…y model,” Amato said. The outcome of the vote, he added, demonstrated that participants in the January protest had “no political representation” in Rome. Kenya: Report on Lives of LBQ Women Identifies Religious Sources of Homophobia This month the Gay and Lesbian Coalition of Kenya released a report, “Research on the Lived Realities of Lesbian, Bisexual and Queer Women in Kenya.” From the report: Most religious institutions in Kenya are unashamed…

Blood and Politics — Christian White Nationalism in the Age of Obama

By Bill Berkowitz

…They also promote their belief that the United States is a White Christian republic rather than a multiracial democracy. And in a number of cases they turn their conviction that White Christians have superior civil and political rights—over those they deem “Fourteenth Amendment” citizens (everybody else)—into fraudulent schemes with fake money. In other instances, they establish “Christian” courts and militia groups that act as if they are legitim…