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Win For ‘Natural Family’ Crowd at UN Human Rights Council…

By Peter Montgomery

…ski said the debate on the bill was “the first time that we actually heard Polish policy makers openly protecting bodily autonomy of trans people and recognizing that trans citizens need to have their dignity assured.” The victory comes in spite of the fact that, as we reported last year, Poland’s Catholic Church had declared war against “gender ideology” and teamed up with members of the ultraconservative United Poland party to form a “stop gende…

WikiLeaks Strikes the Vatican, a Camel in the Pews, and Luke Skywalker Tolerance

By Michael J. Altman

…dinal Ratzinger’s] case for Europe’s Christian foundations.” In Ecuador, a Polish Catholic missionary was beaten to death with a crucifix. And in Phoenix, Arizona, the bishop is threatening to strip St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center of its Catholic status over a disputed abortion procedure. So, apparently, former President George W. Bush was sloshed the first time he met Billy Graham. He had had “about four beers and five wines.” Well done,…

Indie Catholicism is Real: Married Clergy, LGBT Ordination, and Sacramental Justice for All

By Julie Byrne

…udies and heard nothing about them. Well, to be accurate, I’d heard of the Polish National Catholic Church, but only as an exception. It turns out that breakaway Catholicism was, on the contrary, rather common?! I was totally seized with the imperative to write the book. What’s the most important take-home message for readers? Independent Catholic churches are small, so they don’t have a big social justice footprint. They don’t have money to run a…

Satan May Provide a Comforting Story in Times of Crisis, But it Comes With a Price

By Reyhan Durmaz

…sized that “events had overtaken his judgments.” Around the same time, the Polish archbishop Andrzej Dzięga preached that the faithful should not fear the coronavirus because “Satan is powerless in the face of holy water.” The televangelist Kenneth Copeland’s exorcism of the coronavirus, exquisitely analyzed by historian Simcha Gross, was a powerful reiteration of archaic prayer and curse before a neon purple background. Addressing Satan, Copeland…

Ross Douthat: Trump Is Women’s Fault for Not Having More Babies

By Patricia Miller

…which was Slovak; St. Cajetan, which was Italian; St. Hyacinth, which was Polish, and St. Anthony, which was Croatian. As the city’s population shrank, the five were eventually consolidated into one new parish, Epiphany of the Lord, which serves mostly aging parishioners. But that consolidation occurred 25 years ago. Monessen, like much of the Rust Belt, has been living in Douthat’s “post-familial” society for decades. Rather than conveniently bl…

Talking Salsa with Douglas Hofstadter, Enigmatic Author of Gödel, Escher, Bach

By Eliot Raynor

…mmediately to the bookstore in downtown Regensburg and bought a grammar of Polish, and I went through it from head to toe and did all the exercises, and I got extremely excited about it. I was playing piano at the university. I would spend an hour a day practicing various pieces. It was all extremely intense. Just amazing. And so the day came when I was leaving. I could barely sleep. I took the train from Regensburg across the Iron Curtain. So the…

In Case You Missed Them, the Top Pope Francis Quotes of 2016

By Patricia Miller

…come from those people and institutions who give money. –In a meeting with Polish bishops on World Youth Day, Francis said it was “terrible” that children were being taught they could choose their gender, which he called a form of “ideological colonization” (again). It is interesting that all that (the document) contains, it was approved in the Synod by more than two thirds of the fathers. And this is a guarantee. –Francis on suggestions that Amor…

Catholic News We Missed Last Week While Stalking the Pope

By Mary E. Hunt

….” John found his priestly vocation as a prisoner of war in Germany when a Polish man tossed him something to eat while making the sign of the cross. John joined the Jesuits, engaged in study and formation, doing it all right until he fell in love. The rest is an important chapter in church history. Starting with his hallmark book, The Church and the Homosexual (1976), John was a public advocate in print and on the airwaves for opening discussion….

Holy Spit: Why Do Ultra-Orthodox Jews Spit at Christians?

By Shalom Goldman

…d City, an area with many historic churches and monasteries, including the Polish Church of St. Elizabeth. To address the problem a remarkable interfaith forum, appropriately titled “Why do do some Jews spit at Christians in the Old City,” was held under the auspices of the Interreligious Coordinating Council in Israel and the Jerusalem Center for Christian-Jewish Relations. These spitting assaults have been going on for at least a decade, and li…

The Tyranny of Politeness

By Daniel C. Maguire

…a virtue. And so it is. The word comes from the Latin polire, to smooth or polish. By showing respect for others, politeness smooths the abrasive edges of social interaction, making decent and necessary compromises possible. Could it ever be a vice? The ancients wisely said, in medio stat virtus, virtue stands in the middle (between too much and too little). Take courage, for example. Too little courage we call cowardice, too much we call foolhard…