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Why Salma Hayek Adapting The Prophet for Screen Makes Sense

By Brook Wilensky-Lanford

…at the dedication ceremony in May 1991. Earlier that year, in March, when Barbara Walters televised tour of General “Stormin’” Norman Schwarzkopf’s Gulf-War bunker, a copy of The Prophet was proudly displayed on his camouflaged nightstand. Apparently it was good PR to be shown with a book by an Arab writer. Which brings us back to Salma Hayek. Although we think of her as “Mexican-American,” she is actually “Mexican-Lebanese-American.” Her ancesto…

Vatican Accuses Nuns of “Open Provocation”

By Patricia Miller

…re unsubstantiated, Müller cited the organization’s invitation to futurist Barbara Max Hubbard to address its annual assembly on “conscious evolution,” a concept that he charged was permeating the publications of the LCWR and the directional statements of some orders. “The fundamental theses of Conscious Evolution are opposed to Christian Revelation and…lead almost necessarily to fundamental errors regarding the omnipotence of God,” he said, stopp…

In Which I Explain why Marathon Runners are Depraved and Should Just Have their Knees Fall Off Before I Give them One
Red Cent

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…ed in Congress on July 28 by Rep. Lucille Roybal-Allard (D-CA) and Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA). As Rebecca Medina and Sally Schaeffer explain at RH Reality Check, this bill addresses both sexual violence in intimate relationships, and lack of access to reproductive health information and to contraception. (Since restricting access to contraception, or sabotaging its effectiveness, is a technique that abusive partners are known to use in order to…

Pete “Spare Tire” DeGraaf’s Operation Rescue Ties

By Sarah Posner

…t they may need an abortion, a pro-choice state representative, Republican Barbara Bollier, questioned whether women would in fact plan for a pregnancy resulting from, for example, rape. To which DeGraaf responded, “We do need to plan ahead, don’t we, in life?” adding, “I have spare tire on my car.” His online biography at Shepherds Staff Ministries, where DeGraaf, an Air Force Academy graduate and an ordained pastor, is a “biblical” financial adv…

What We Don’t Know About Black Social Gospel: A Long-Neglected Tradition Is Reclaimed

By Gary Dorrien

…ack religious scholars Anthony Pinn, Randal Jelks, Lawrence Edward Carter, Barbara Dianne Savage, Wallace Best and others. The founders did not take over the black churches, they fought rearguard legitimacy battles through the 1930s, and they provided only modest ballast for the early NAACP. The tradition they founded had all the problems that go with being overwhelmingly male, clerical, sexist, middle-class, and churchly. Even the most radical an…

How the Catholic Church Changed the Movies

By Patricia Miller

…blog “Sister Rose Goes To The Movies.” Among the films to be screened are Barbara Stanwyck’s 1933 classic Babyface, 1956’s And God Created Woman, the film that launched “sex kitten” Brigitte Bardot, 1953’s The Moon is Blue, and 1948’s L’Amore. This last movie led to an historic Supreme Court ruling known as the “Miracle Decision” that found that motion pictures were a form of artistic expression protected by the First Amendment, not, as the churc…

D’Souza: ‘Traditional Values’ for You, Freedom to Follow my Heart for Me

By Peter Montgomery

…ce has become, as it never was before, a form of personal liberation, what Barbara Dafoe Whitehead terms ‘expressive divorce.’ Here we have the first hint of a serious problem with secular morality. In its central domain, that of love, it is notoriously fickle.” (page 256-7) It turns out D’Souza has lots in common with his hotel roomie Denise Joseph. Wonkette culled from Joseph’s Facebook writings a few Ann Coulter-ish denunciations of feminists a…

Honey, I Shrunk the Church: The Vatican Manages Sexual Abuse, Canonization and the Nuns

By Mary E. Hunt

…as “conscious evolution,” a phrase used by one of LCWR’s plenary speakers, Barbara Hubbard. While Hubbard’s work is helpful, there is much more at play: how faith and reason function in postmodernity; the various new cosmologies that ground theological thinking; and the exciting insights emerging from gene theory, to name just a few examples. LCWR provides educational opportunities for its members. Perhaps the Congregation thinks they’re still lea…

In Sexual Abuse Hearing UN Calls Holy See on Girls’ Reproductive Rights

By Angela Bonavoglia

…only did the Pope grant Mahoney an audience; they celebrated Mass together. To the church’s walking wounded, for the Pope to “honor” such a man, as Survivor’s Network of those Abused by Priests’ founder Barbara Blaine described it, was painful, insulting, and just one more indication of how the church (including this new Pontiff who has engendered so much hope) still doesn’t get it….

How ‘Positivity’ Can Lead to Conspiratorial Thinking

By Susannah Crockford

…w separable and independent of one another. In Bright-Sided (2009), writer Barbara Ehrenreich, critiques positive thinking as an ideology in America, one that has become both normative and normal. The way we should be. Positive has become synonymous with good, an unquestionable virtue. Those that do question it are likely to be viewed with suspicion, as if there’s something wrong with them. Although, she notes, it’s a way of thinking that’s most c…