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Pro-Life Tempest Over Obama’s Notre Dame Speech

By Mary E. Hunt

…llent column on Cardinal Newman’s ambiguous sexuality here —ed.] Their Web site includes a handy listing of each institution with its sins and triumphs enumerated. For example, my alma mater, Marquette, is constantly called out for the mere presence of renowned moral theologian Daniel C. Maguire, then lauded for placing in the bottom ten of 139 schools studied with regard to the availability of contraceptives. Boston College is under scrutiny for…

The Faith-Based Militia: When is Terrorism ‘Christian’?

By Frederick Clarkson

…tians. A longer version of the letter was published on the Army of God Web site. As recently as this past week, we saw the double standard in action. Scott Roeder (the man convicted of the murder of Dr. George Tiller, an abortion provider in Wichita, Kansas) was mostly described in the media as an anti-abortion extremist or anti-abortion militant, terms that fail to convey the depth and breadth of his views and the reasons for his crime. At his se…

On Women’s Equality Day, Going Back to the Sacred Texts of Feminism

By Betty M. Bayer

…that, as it turned out, was formerly the site of the Wesleyan Chapel: the site of the “largest bestowal of democratic freedoms in the U.S.” Could one imagine, she asked, “a laundromat in Independence Hall?” Jenkins’ point is an incisive one. It is not simply whether we tell tales of the history of the women’s movement, but rather how we turn that history to the here and now. Martha Kelly notes a similar “present absence” in what she calls neglect…

Vatican Seeks Virgin Amidst All This Sexual Impropriety

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…ast thirty years, the site has become one of the most important pilgrimage sites in Eastern Europe, attracting an estimated 30 million pilgrims. The Roman Church has never committed itself one way or the other on the authenticity of the apparitions up to now. Yet the authenticity of the site and its sanctity took a significant blow when Father Tomislav Vlasic, the self-appointed spiritual advisor to the six recipients of these visions, was de-froc…

Hopping on the Meditation Brandwagon: “Heartfulness” Makes Landfall in Los Angeles

By Anita Little

…ness-plus-transmission. It can be accomplished remotely, or in person, the site explains. Patel said he didn’t want to “get too into it” here. Even a visit to Heartfulness’ website and social media pages doesn’t offer much more in the way of an explanation, only the guarantee that yogic transmission is “the essence of a good inner life that must be experienced to be appreciated.” USC, a world-renowned research university, seems to be an odd choice…

How (Not) to Understand What Mormons Believe

By Joanna Brooks

…ntial Mormon involvement in other state LGBT equality battles. But his new site has nothing to do with redressing the damage from Proposition 8. It’s all about using the 2012 presidential campaign to make Mormons feel ashamed just for being Mormons. The site itself is flat and juvenile. It’s been denounced by the Los Angeles Times. (And it’s already been infiltrated by savvy Mormon folks and their allies.) But it participates in a mode of anti-Mor…

Newsweek Takes a Bullet On Gay Marriage

By Mary E. Hunt

…. I figured she would conclude by sending her readers to a very useful Web site on the topic, developed by the Marriage Project of the Center for Lesbians and Gay Studies at the Pacific School of Religion at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley. Alas, such substantive materials—and many more by authors including Irene Monroe, Judith Plaskow and myself—are all out there for the reading. Obviously they are not getting read by more than a small…

Religion and HIV/AIDS: When Interfaith is Not Enough

By Susan Henking

…d moves like that of the United Church of Christ are better than their opposite—overt hostility toward persons with HIV/AIDS. But do they distract us from the illogic of religion? The hostility? The longterm negative consequences? Such questions are not relevant only for New York City. Why? New York’s interfaith work on HIV/AIDS is not the only setting in which (relatively progressive) religion serves as a conduit for positive efforts around HIV/A…

In This Week’s LGBT Recap: Are Gay Priests Overdue for a Stonewall Moment?

By Peter Montgomery

…e gay teens are encouraged to discuss their experiences of homophobia. The site still can be accessed outside Russia, but inside the country the site displays an October closure order. Xenia Loutchenko, a Moscow commentator who writes on church affairs, says Putin and an inner Orthodox circle are driving the air of social retrenchment, not any grass-roots desire for a sterner, more judgmental Russia. “There is a demand for an ideology, and they’re…

Hundreds of Thousands Spent to Fight Gay Marriage While Poverty Grows

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…on, is listed on the church web site as executive pastor. The church’s web site describes the High Impact Leadership Coalition as a non-profit, tax-exempt group that “exists to protect the moral compass of America and to be an agent of healing to our nation by educating and empowering churches, community and political leaders.” The web site does not disclose the tax status of Christian Hope Ministries-High Impact, but its listing as an arm of the…