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Blame Series Bonus: Why We Want That Dish For Free, an Uncut Interview with Bertram Malle

By Andrew Aghapour

…ave not given ordinary citizens a very clear understanding that all the common goods we are surrounded by—all the parking lots and streets and sidewalks and trees—all of that is a common good that has to be paid for by some common process, like taxes. (Compare this to Europe, where people seem to understand all that and take it for granted.) So there isn’t really a very clear causal understanding of how these things work, how institutions take in,…

Pope Praises ‘Complementarity’ & Resists Gay Ambassador; Irish Religious Leaders Spar Over Marriage; Colombian Atty Gen Cites ‘Bogus’ Study Opposing Adoption; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…historically opposed any and all LGBT rights votes in Westminster and Stormont. They most recently drafted a Conscience Clause which would exempt religious people from following equality laws. PinkNews previously discussed some of the worries LGBT might people have over the DUP having power in Westminster. The Alliance party has specifically opposed the DUP’s conscience clause, saying it is “poorly defined and is a charter for discrimination.” Th…

Paranormal Vodka, Exorcists and a Demonic Doll: Welcome to Paracon, Based on the Work of the Demon-Hunters Who Inspired the ‘Conjuring’ Series

By Eric Harrelson and Joseph P. Laycock

…efore Halloween, is based around the work of Ed and Lorraine Warren, the famous demon-hunting couple whose case files are the basis of the billion-dollar Conjuring series of films. Put on by Tony Spera, the son-in-law of Ed and Lorraine and current head of NESPR, the Paracon boasts the chance to see real haunted artifacts straight from the Warren’s now-closed Occult Museum. Joe and I jumped at the opportunity. We enter the Mohegan Sun Casino in Un…

Pop-Culture Angels Are More Than Just Embarrassing Kitsch

By Ed Simon

…a saint,” though of course the mythological being was both. Angel spawn Among the most audacious and idiosyncratic of twentieth-century comics, the seventy-five issues of DC’s Preacher tell the narrative of Jesse Custer, a Texas minister possessed by a supernatural entity named Genesis born from the intercourse of an angel and a demon. With the assistance of, among others, an ancient Irish vampire named Cassidy who’s not so subtly based on the r…

Religion Round-Up: What’s Going on in Religion Around the World

By Diane Winston

…repressive policy, those numbers are, according to Pew, surprisingly high. Moreover, they represent a large number of people, “nearly equal the estimated number of religiously affiliated adults in the United States” Accordingly, the 1-plus % of the Chinese population that identifies itself as Muslim equals some 20.3 million people—a population almost as large as Saudi Arabia’s. (More to the point, as one of China’s ethnic minorities, Muslims are n…

RD News Round-Up—Oct.14, 2008

By Bill Berkowitz

…in their top five most important voting issues. Americans see room for common ground in abortion debate. A majority (53%) of Americans believe political leaders can work to find common ground on abortion while staying true to their core beliefs, including majorities of white mainline Protestants (59%), Catholics (55%), and the unaffiliated (52%). The generation gap on same-sex marriage is large and increasing. Nearly half (46%) of young adults sa…

Invited by Allah

By Amina Wadud

…k a cup of tea with leaves still settled at the bottom. Once the liquid is mostly all drunk, the reader takes the leaves, swishes them around in the bottom of the cup, turns the cup upside down and “reads” the tracks and pattern stains left by the leaves. I remember only one thing she said, that I would make hajj in the next year or two. This year I made my intentions during the previous hajj season. As I have said, I committed to use my little bi…

Vatican Paper: Simpsons are Catholic

By S. Brent Rodriguez Plate

…the decade or so of the airing of the program. In 1992, George H.W. Bush famously spoke of his desire “to make American families a lot more like the Waltons and a lot less like the Simpsons.” And the unofficial U.S. cultural watchdog, Bill Donahue and the Catholic League, worked to get some changes made to the show for anti-Catholic biases (see here). Donahue himself has already gone on record to the recent Vatican report. Times change. The new bo…

As Culture War Rages, What’s the Status of LGBT Rights on Catholic Campuses?

By Jamie L. Manson

…h to LGBT issues. A four-part series of conferences last fall, entitled “More than a Monologue: Sexual Diversity and the Catholic Church,” brought Fordham and Fairfield, two Catholic universities, together with Yale Divinity School and Union Theological Seminary, traditionally Protestant institutions, to explore the challenges experienced by gay and lesbian Catholics in the Church. Paul Lakeland, Professor of Theology at Fairfield University in…

Illinois Bishop Greets Marriage Equality with Exorcism

By Peter Montgomery

…age of God and redeemed by the precious blood of the divine lamb. “Dare no more, oh cunning serpent, to deceive the human race, to persecute the church of God, to shake the chosen of God and sift them like wheat,” he continued. In an unusual use of public services, the exorcism included two armed Springfield police officers stationed inside the church vestibule where parishioners entered from the street. At one point during the service, one of the…