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Pittsburgh Paradox: A City Haunted by God and Steel

By Ed Simon

…ception” without finding it irreverent? After all, this is the place where Polish immigrants built a miniature replica of St. Peter’s and where Marian shrines populate the bluff overlooking the Park Way, where an incarnation of Vishnu resides at the Sri Venkateswara temple in the Penn Hills and Hasidic rabbis offer much needed prayers for the Pirates. As I asked in my essay, “If the essence of religion is finding the holy in the normal, the sacred…

Is This Tiny Divided Orthodox Nation the Next Front in Russia’s Religious War?

By Katherine Kelaidis

…that currently makes up Moldova has at various points been under Ottoman, Polish, Romanian, and Russian control. In 1401, the autonomous Metropolis of Moldova was established by the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, with its seat in Iași. What is today eastern Romania and all of Moldova were under the Metropolis of Moldova until Bessarabia was annexed by the Russian Empire in 1812. Bessarabia, located in eastern Moldova, is the region that…

My House, My Rules: 3 Women Speakers “Rejected” From Women’s Day Event at Vatican (on Full Inclusion of Women in the Church)

By Mary E. Hunt

…two are thought to be Ugandan LGBTIQ activist Ssenfuka Joanita Warry, and Polish theologian Zuzanna Radzik who specializes in Christian-Jewish relations. But it’s anyone’s guess who caught the cardinal’s ire and why. There is no official confirmation of the reasons why Mr. Farrell saw fit to bar them. But it’s widely speculated that among Mary McAleese’s sins is her strong support for LGBTIQ rights, beginning with her own gay son’s right to be as…

La Carmina, Author of ‘The Little Book of Satanism,’ Talks ‘Satanic Panic,’ QAnon, Japanese Satanism, and More

By Joseph Laycock

…rth the idea that Devil-worshippers were lurking in your neighborhood and plotting to steal your children. This frightening conceptualization of Satanists took over the popular imagination, and dovetailed with increasing social unease about the dissolution of the nuclear family. These factors (along with others, such as the publication of Michelle Remembers) spiraled into the Satanic Panic of the 1980s and 1990s. A wave of hysteria arose over Sata…

DeSantis is More Polished and Less Bombastic Than Trump — But is He Less of a Threat to Democracy?

By Annika Brockschmidt

…e threat of financial ruin and legal repercussions—but all of it with more polish and less incoherence and bombast. And yet, the pundit class has already turned to what many feared might be the outcome should Democrats buck the odds in the midterms: They’ve declared the threat to democracy over. Democracy has prevailed, Trumpism is defeated, no need for alarmism anymore! Takes like these express one thing in particular: that the person in question…

The ‘Dreher Affair’ Highlights the Right’s International Networks

By Annika Brockschmidt

…rdinating international body Alliance Defending Freedom International. The Polish Ordo Iuris, a right-wing catholic organization which leads a crusade against abortion, is likewise well connected on an international level with German pundit Birgit Kelle, a regular on the anti-abortion circuit, having recently spoken at one of their events. Meanwhile, the Mathias Corvinus Collegium—headed by Balázs Orbán (no relation), an MP for the Fidesz Party—wh…

A New Book Traces the Influence of Racism and Imperialism on White Christian Feminism

By Caroline Matas

…and the Taliban threaten to pull out women’s fingernails for wearing nail polish. With this rhetoric, Bush invites Islam under the umbrella of what once was characterized as a tri-faith America. And yet, Islam is only welcome at the table inasmuch as Americans understand it to comport with their own vision of freedom and progress—a vision largely defined by White Protestants. Christian Imperial Feminism is, at its heart, a solid historical accoun…

Oh Say, Can You See?: 9/11 Flag Displays and the Flag’s Symbolic Power

By Spencer Dew

…ver, feature most prominently the iconic Stars and Stripes, and, while the number of flags arranged is meant to be awe-inspiring, alternately horrifying and uplifting, the flags themselves are common objects, flags any participant in these rituals could own and wave and display at their own home. Indeed, some memorials will be selling the flags used. There is nothing rare or unattainable in these displays; the commonness of the flag exemplifies on…

Freeman Dyson, American Heretic

By Michael J. Altman

…er theism and religion fail to see their own rug. In The Presence of Myth, Polish philosopher Leszek Kolakowski argues that in an indifferent and contingent universe no value can be attributed to anything (natural selection, survival, scripture, ritual) without relying upon “myth.” I would substitute “the sacred” for his “myth” but the point remains. The fact that we find climate change a problem is based upon a series of sacred values that are no…

Fake Rabbi Showdown

By Peter Manseau

…elderly man who waved me close so he could whisper something in my ear. A Polish-born former chicken farmer from New Jersey, he had been a Nazi-killing partisan in his youth, but now walked with a cane and the stoop of age. He sounded like he’d learned English from gangster movies, which in fact he had. Hooking a thumb in the direction of the tone-deaf cantor, he said, “This guy’s a chazan like I’m a dancer.” Those were more or less my thoughts w…