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Pope Francis is Talking, But Is Anyone Listening?

By Patricia Miller

…cades many members of the Catholic hierarchy have suggested that teaching trumps conscience, especially on difficult issues like abortion. In Veritatis Splendor, Pope John Paul II complained: Conscience is no longer considered in its primordial reality as an act of a person’s intelligence, the function of which is to apply the universal knowledge of the good in a specific situation and thus to express a judgment about the right conduct to be chose…

Predatory Prayer: When Does “Please” Not Mean “Please”?

By Stephanie Russell-Kraft

…ourt’s 2014 decision in Town of Greece v. Galloway, which said the upstate New York town’s practice of praying before meetings could continue because the local governing body wasn’t coercing anyone to participate. In a plurality opinion, Supreme Court Justice Kennedy said you can’t coerce someone to pray “merely by exposing” them to prayer. There has to be something more. But in Greece, board members didn’t solicit prayer-related gestures, members…

Forget “Nasty,” Trump’s Got a “Disgusting” Problem

By Karen E. Park

…died. The famous crucifixion panel of The Isenheim Altarpiece by Matthias Grunewald shows an emaciated and ghoulishly pallid Christ, his body covered with sores, ragged wounds on his hands and feet, in a state of decay too advanced for someone who had just died. Grunewald’s Christ could certainly be called disgusting, as the patients in the monastery hospital for whom the painting was commissioned surely were (a hospital which specialized in The P…

Religious Freedom Org Sticking By Trump Clinging to SCOTUS Nominations

By Sunnivie Brydum

…f-appointed religious freedom fighters continue to overwhelmingly support Trump. But those allies, like Trump’s TV surrogates, are increasingly required to twist themselves into rhetorical pretzels to justify their candidate’s behavior, policies (or lack thereof) and unabashed disregard for the U.S. Constitution. Among those ready to contort themselves into Trump promotion machines at any cost is the right-wing Liberty Counsel, which describes its…

Including Bono on Glamour’s “Women of the Year” List is Two Steps Backwards

By Sunnivie Brydum

…ing life-saving HIV and AIDS medication to sub-Saharan Africa, and for his newest philanthropic endeavor underneath the ONE brand, Poverty Is Sexist. The magazine acknowledges that “men aren’t exactly hurting for awards in this world,” and that Glamour’s Women of the Year Advisory Board has previously vetoed any inclusion of men on the annual list. “But these days, women want men—no, women need men—in our tribe,” the feature’s introduction explain…

The Sacred and the Dead: ‘Friend of the Devil’ is a Love Song

By Pitman B. Potter

…the streets of Vancouver’s West Side, I have encountered this mindset many times. One of the principles we instill in our volunteers is the commitment to love—without conditions, without judgment, without patronizing. Building trust takes commitment that won’t mean anything if it comes with conditions. Genuine friendship means welcoming and loving folks as they are, not as we wish or hope them to be. I have witnessed the transformation that happen…

Enjoy this Original “Mazel Tov” Cocktail Recipe at Your Election Night Party

By The Editors

…p campaign. L’chaim! Mazel Tov Cocktail 1 sugar cube or 1 tsp 2:1 simple syrup 2 dashes Bittermens Hellfire Habanero Shrub 1 orange wedge 1 brandied Rainier cherry (pitted) 2 oz Slivovitz This fiery take on the old-fashioned Old Fashioned is eager to grab control of global markets and pull the strings of vulnerable governments everywhere. Put the sugar, Hellfire bitters, orange and cherry into a whiskey glass and, while inhaling loudly through you…

“I Can’t Defend My People”: Opting Out of Evangelicalism, Post-Election

By Anita Little

…hristianity. You’ve become a category for pollsters rather than pastors, a word of exclusion rather than embrace…What was admirable about your name has been buried, crushed under the weight of 60 million votes. I am no less committed to Christ, his gospel, and his church, but I can no longer be called an evangelical. https://twitter.com/d_l_mayfield/status/796229392112332800 https://twitter.com/JohnFea1/status/796228404144177152?ref_src=twsrc%5Etf…

Special Hell: Progressive Catholics Reckon With the Rise of Trump

By Patricia Miller

…l and collective activism around social justice issues as the antidote to Trump. Krueger said a good approach is to follow what Jesus said in Matthew 10:16 when he sent the apostles out: “Behold, I am sending you like sheep in the midst of wolves; so be shrewd as serpents and simple as doves.” “It’s incumbent on all of us, Catholics who care about social justice make sure that people who are less well off don’t get hurt,” said Jon O’Brien, preside…

The Awkward Silence in the Wake of Jacob Neusner’s Passing

By Laura S. Levitt

…at a student would call Neusner to account. To say that Jacob Neusner was cruel to his students is to tell the truth. I call him my teacher, but in truth he never claimed me as a student. I was just one of the many awestruck undergraduates to whom he paid intense attention for a brief moment. It was that attention that mattered. And, for that, I owe him a great deal. He taught me many things as he ushered me into the world of the rigorous scholarl…