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Pope Francis Walks With LGBTQ People, One Step Forward, Big Steps Back

By Kaya Oakes

…ian faith.” But beyond interreligious dialogue, many Jesuits also train in spiritual direction, which is a guided one-on-one conversation about faith. Jesuits often teach and write in addition to working in pastoral ministry during their formation, all practices that involve a fair amount of back and forth with people from all over the Catholic spectrum. Rather than “either/or,” Jesuits like to talk about “both/and,” another invitation to dialogue…

UN Human Rights Council Creates LGBT Watchdog; Orthodox Council Affirms Traditional Teaching on Family; Pope Francis Says Church Should Apologize to Gays; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ularisation seeks the autonomy of man (anthropos) from Christ and from the spiritual influence of the Church, which it arbitrarily identifies with conservatism. Western civilization, however, bears the indelible mark of the diachronic contribution of Christianity. The Church, moreover, highlights the saving significance of Christ, the God-man, and of His Body, as the place and mode of life in freedom. In contrast to the contemporary approach tomar…

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…

The Threat to Democracy Runs Deep, But Mathematics Could Address the Abominable State of Representation and Voting

By Ismar Volić

…r. The day after those declarations of independence took place, I was on a plane to Boston on a two-month visit to an uncle who’d already lived there for several years. The timing was a coincidence; my family had been planning this trip for a while. But midway through my visit, seeing that a fate similar to Croatia’s was not unfathomable in Bosnia, my mother suggested that I try to stay in Boston—maybe turn this visit into the fun and valuable exp…

Glenn Beck’s Nazi Tourette’s

By The Editors

…he death camps in Germany. Put humankind and the common good first. This is one of those statements—and Beck is one of those figures—that only comedy can confront. It doesn’t exist on the plane of serious, genuine and sane discussion, so why respond as though it is? The Daily Show’s Lewis Black (via Keith Olbermann’s Countdown) didn’t:…

Russian Orthodox Patriarch Blames Gays For ISIS; ‘Christian Nationalist’ Sworn In As Guatemala’s President; Vatican Resists Civil Unions in Italy; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ed his now-legendary “Who am I to judge?” statement while aboard the papal plane. Since that fateful in-flight press conference, I have been told countless times (often by well-meaning, heterosexual Catholics) that I should find hope and comfort in the pope because he has opened up the doors to mercy for me and my lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer friends. But mercy, it seems to me, is not the door that LGBTQ people need opened to them…

Obama Changes Course on Islam

By Hussein Rashid

…he Hutaree, who were turned in by a Muslim, and Joseph Stack, who flew his plane into a federal office building. I suppose Brennan’s caveat about those charged with “terrorism” is his “out,” but it seems like a technicality. The National Security Strategy makes no such qualifications, arguing that “Several recent incidences of violent extremists in the United States who are committed to fighting here and abroad have underscored the threat to the U…

Gays Attacked in Uganda After Mag Publishes Info

By Jody May-Chang

…the people who were outed in the newspaper.” Earlier, just hours after his plane touched down in Boise on November 1, Kiyimba learned that Rolling Stone had just published a second round of names under the headline: “More Homos’ Faces Exposed.” Identities were published despite a court injunction, filed days earlier, preventing the paper from outing gays. Kiyimba said the injunctions are meaningless in any case as publishers simply wait for the te…

The Devil is in the Details

By Amina Wadud

…. Then, I divide these reasonably between the suitcase that goes under the plane and my carry-on luggage. Remember I have to be in ihram before I reach Jeddah. Then there are the things that need to go in a suitcase but you use them every day. Fortunately, I have all those nifty scent-free products; as far as most of the cosmetics go, I don’t use those on a daily basis. But other things, like toothpaste, I’m not really planning on using a travel s…

May GOP Save Us From Chaos: Mircea Eliade on Election 2010

By Ira Chernus

…y plane there is a transcendent realm, where being is eternal. But the two planes of existence are always interconnected, so the religious person assumes that it’s possible to travel between them. If we understand your work correctly, the contact between those planes comes at a sacred center, which also links our sense of earthly order with some symbolic experience of chaos. Yes, archaic religious people did not fear chaos, because their sacred sy…