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Satanic “Black Mass” at Harvard Excites Conservatives

By Joseph Laycock

…he would do if, in the midst of their exercise, something from the etheric plane made itself known.” Greaves laughed and answered, “Well, then I’d have to reassess.” Scalia also produced a hurried series of blog posts obsessing over whether an actual consecrated host will be desecrated in the black mass. Even when Greaves said a consecrated host would not be used, Scalia appeared determined to keep alive the possibility that an actual host desecra…

Franklin Graham Blames Democrats for Escalating Tensions with Russia

By Chrissy Stroop

…the United States in connection with the recent shooting down of a Syrian plane by U.S. forces. Graham noted correctly that the Syrian situation is a “powder keg,” and thus requires a careful foreign policy approach. However, he also took the opportunity not only to repeat the banal “Russia and America should fight ISIS together” talking point pushed by both the Kremlin and the Trump administration, but also to accuse Trump’s political opponents…

Conservative Bishops Unhappy At Synod, But Ignore Walkout Call; Australian Religious Leaders Step Up Marriage Equality Opposition; Italy Debates Civil Unions; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…y batty man” whilst growing up as “pretty traumatic”. “Whether it was in a plane or a coffin, I knew I had to get out of Jamaica,” he said. United Nations: US Ambassador to UN Honored The Council for Global Equality honored U.S. Ambassador to the U.N.Samantha Power. Power’s remarks were reprinted by Huffington Post: I’d like to start my remarks by sharing a story of a young man named Subhi Nahas. Subhi, who is now 28 years old, was born in Idlib,…

In the Papal Pocket: Benedict XVI and the Press

By Mary E. Hunt

…ore than meets the eye on religion, just as they are taught to investigate plane crashes and court cases. The difficulty, of course, is that few people want to be thought of as engaging in religion-bashing. Who will bring up the inconvenient truth that the Pope’s US visit will cost more than a million dollars a day that might better be spent on health care for uninsured people? Who will mention that women will play only the most superficial roles…

Jesus, Son of Allah: The Roots of the Riots in Malaysia

By Sheila Sheereen Akbar

…to see why translation is often so difficult. Project it up to the divine plane and we easily have a controversy on our hands. Leaving all these big questions aside for a moment, let’s deal a bit more specifically with what is making people so upset in Malaysia. “Allah” is the generic Malay word for God and has been for centuries. So no big deal, right? That’s what I first thought, and then I saw an article that said phrases that describe Jesus a…

Aussie Priest is Excommunicated for Support of Women’s Ordination

By Marian Ronan

…ation. It was not lost on us that even in the much-touted interview on the plane from Brazil, Pope Francis drew the line at women’s ordination. Indeed, the clear hierarchical distinction between genders underpinned by the refusal to ordain women has been the line in the sand since not long after the Roman persecution of the church. But since John Paul II’s 1994 statement declaring women’s ordination absolutely off-limits, it’s been a twofer: somet…

Vatican Sexual Abuse Meeting Is Destined to Fail—To Stop the Problem or the Decline

By Mary E. Hunt

…lly abusing young boys in December of 2018. How long does it take to get a plane ticket to Rome? Why not convene a Zoom meeting to save time, money, and face? Any PR flack knows that step one is to put out the fire ASAP. Heads of national bishops’ conferences are the last people needed for a constructive conversation on sexual abuse. Their collective inattention, coverups, and tepid excuses are a major source of the problem. Why are there no lay p…

Why South Korea (and the US) Use Amusement Parks to Push Creationism

By Andrew Aghapour

…mething like an invisible hand, deferred to the Big Bang or some alternate plane of existence. Second, “myths” brings us back to South Korean amusement parks. They remind us that there is much more to culture than cold hard facts. (Otherwise, how could we have Fox News?) The popularity of a myth like creationism depends on social dynamics, publicity, and specific institutions of power. To combat it, evolution needs more than just the hard facts. I…

After Ferguson: America Must Abandon “Sick Christianity” at Ease With Violence

By Willie James Jennings

…the story of a father and son stranded together on an extremely dangerous planet, Earth. Long ago abandoned by humanity, this future Earth is now overrun with outsized predators, toxic plants, and wildly unstable weather. The ship that carried them has crash landed and the elder Smith’s character lies in the ship’s shattered hull with broken bones unable to move. From that captive position he charges his son with an almost impossible task: to tra…

If You Liked The Martian You’ll Love These 3 Sci-Fi Shorts

By Andrew Aghapour

…for more Weir: Bored World. The story of a mischievous, trans-dimensional plane of existence. Is this a god, or the story of sci-fi itself? Antihypoxiant. Here at The Cubit we’ve been tracking shifts in our cultural attitudes towards health, diet, and medicine. In “Antihypoxiant,” Weir pushes a fictional scientist to the limit of a certain kind of care. The Egg. By far Weir’s most popular story, “The Egg” has been translated into over 30 language…