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Cornel West, Using His Powers for Good

By Edward J. Blum

…Poverty Tour” of 2011, where they visited places like Hayward, Wisconsin, Detroit, Michigan, and Columbus, Mississippi. Each book chapter has a similar trajectory—the authors intersperse personal stories of poverty, homelessness, and frustration with discussions of economic and political policies ranging from the New Deal to the present. Time and again, readers are brought to the vision of Franklin Roosevelt and the New Deal, the willingness of D…

The Pope’s Gay Priests

By William J. Dohar

…has sounded from Rome for decades that it’s still hard to hear, much less imitate. Judgment of gay people—and here again, I’ll even limit this to gay, celibate priests—has been categorical and negative ever since ‘homosexual’ made its way into the Vatican lexicon fifty years ago. A 1961 instruction titled “Careful Selection and Training of Candidates for the States of Perfection and Sacred Orders” barred anyone from ordination “afflicted with evi…

Op-Ed: The Other: Dimensions of Resistance to Obama’s Candidacy

By Michael L. Hays

…ich did not exist in its six counties, but its racism transcended its economics. The minority’s racism transcends religion. Southern Baptists constituted the membership of the White Citizen Councils and the Ku Klux Klan. Those who moved north left when racism was virulent and lynching commonplace, and brought their racism with them. Catholic immigrants to the northern industrialized cities of the Rust Belt and the upper Midwest—Buffalo, Erie, Pitt…

Should We Believe ‘Bombshell’ Report on Pope’s Knowledge of Sexual Abuse?

By Daniel Schultz

…d, as Janet Smith, Professor of Moral Theology at the Sacred Heart Major Seminary in Detroit, recently wrote. “The problem of clergy abuse,” she wrote, “cannot be resolved simply by the resignation of some bishops, and even less so by bureaucratic directives. The deeper problem lies in homosexual networks within the clergy which must be eradicated.” These homosexual networks, which are now widespread in many dioceses, seminaries, religious orders,…

Religious Right Dream of Privatized Public Education Gets Boost

By Julie Ingersoll

…tax concerns and anti-government/anti-union sentiment. Since the Reagan Administration, religious conservatives have pushed for the elimination of the Federal Department of Education. The strategy has been to move from federal control, to state control, and then toward privatization. That call received renewed emphasis among tea party supporters in the last election and governors elected on promises to cut both taxes and state deficits are lookin…

God’s Amicus Curiae on Town of Greece v. Galloway SCOTUS Case

By Peter Laarman

…lling the Court that it’s okay for every friggin’ town board and zoning commission in the United States to yammer for my presence as they wheel and deal and commit every imaginable malfeasance. Such a disappointment, that Barack. With his terrific background in constitutional law, I thought I would not have my Name used in vain quite so often. But now he seems to be running with the pious crowd, and you know I just can’t stand false piety. What wa…

Satanists Infiltrate a Ritual Abuse Conference in Oakland: Your Guide to What Happened and Why

By Joseph Laycock

…“Brain-Washing Tactics Force Chinese into Ranks of Communist Party” in the Miami News. That article introduced “brainwashing” to the American vocabulary. During the Cold War “brainwashing” became a way to acknowledge the loyalty of communist soldiers while simultaneously discrediting it as a kind of false consciousness. It also helped to explain American POWs who appeared to cooperate with their communist captors. How did the concept jump from Com…

Vatican Pitbulls Make Cardinal

By Mary E. Hunt

…ansour was named head of the Department of Social Services in the State of Michigan through which office funds for abortions were channeled. Detroit’s Cardinal Edmund Szoka ordered her to leave her post, but she resisted with support from her Mercy community. She argued that even though she was personally opposed to abortion she was bound by her job description to do the work the people of Michigan hired her to do. Bevilaqua, an expert in canon la…

Awake from Dreaming: Forecasts and Fears of the Next Four Years

By Edward J. Blum

…ay provide a sad resemblance. The chances for disenchantment seem eerily similar. If 2008 hearkens back to 1963, will 2012 be reminiscent of 1967? As so many politicians and pundits have commented, Obama will become President with more crises on his hands than fingers. His followers voted for “change” but what will change mean in manifest form? The potential for dashed dreams and unfulfilled prophecies is high. How shall we avoid disappointment? H…

From ‘Hour of Power’ to ‘Minutes of Impotence’

By Jonathan L. Walton

…f younger voices like those of Creflo Dollar in Atlanta or Keith Butler in Detroit. And his public split with prominent white Word of Faith leaders in the mid-90s over racist comments made by Kenneth Hagin, Jr (son of the movement’s founding father) also served to place the elder Price on the margins of power over the previous decade. It appears, then, that the son must bear the double burden of rebuilding Crenshaw’s mega-ministry while attempting…