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End of the World: An Update

By Lauri Lebo

…interviewed Marie Exley, an unemployed woman who paid $1,200 to put up the sign on a park bench, alerting the people along the 10 Springs bus route that Christ will return May 21, 2011. The sign doesn’t say it, but the web site that it refers to let’s us know that Oct. 21, 2011 will be the day “when He will destroy the world and all that is therein.” At the end of the article, there is what may be the saddest quote I have ever read in a news story…

Don’t Cry For Me Argentina, Cry For the Catholic Church

By Mary E. Hunt

…ome commentators have alleged that the 33-27 vote in the Senate was less a sign of major cultural change than a way for the president’s husband, Nestor Kirchner (former president of Argentina hankering to run again), to look liberal enough to be reelected in 2011. That may well be, but it misses an important religious angle; namely, that the Roman Catholic Church was defeated as soundly as the political opposition on this one. Maybe it is a sign o…

Healed of the Sin of Religion: At Church with Sara Miles

By Lisa Webster

…n’t earn it, you can’t deserve it. You make the point of not making people sign up, or sign in, the way we do if we need government aid. Right. You don’t have to prove anything. The imitation of God’s gesture in feeding us all is frightening, and difficult, and exhilarating. It’s an amazing experience to do that—it changes you. Interesting, too, that the pantry is not run by volunteers from the church, as I had imagined. It’s also true that becaus…

Hajj Journal: Friday Salat al Jumu’ah in Haram al-Sharif

By Amina Wadud

…she made a rift in our united efforts. What I mean is, the other women by sign language agreed with me to keep our space. At first they were going to lift up their prayer rugs when shifted by the security guards, but then I gave them the eye and also told the guard in Arabic, “We’re a group (of ladies) here.” Why should we move? To understand how this works, try to remember we are dealing in numbers of devotees so far from manageable that it almo…

Beyond Retribution: Bin Laden’s Death in its Cosmic Context

By Eric Reitan

…ur crime, you will not experience remorse. In this sense real remorse is a sign of coming into alignment with the good, of coming to care about the true and the right. In short, it is a sign of moral redemption. Hungering for Redemption And so my theory is this: at the root of our desire for retribution is the wish that those who have wronged us feel the full weight of what they have done, suffering remorse proportionate in severity to the gravity…

On Holocaust Remembrance Day, Catholic ‘Liberal’ Hails Return of Anti-Semitic Group

By Anthea Butler

…ed out to the group to attempt “reconciliation,” and has requested that it sign a “doctrinal preamble.” The SSPX sent a letter to the Pope during Holy Week, and the contents—and whether it has agreed to sign the doctrinal preamble—are to be made public after the Pope’s birthday celebration. The letter comes as a birthday present of sorts to the Pope, who has wanted the SSPX back in the Church. National Catholic Reporter blogger Michael Sean Winte…

God Dissolves into the Occupy Movement

By Nathan Schneider

…s, ritual: Merritt offered to anoint people “for wholeness,” with an equal sign on their foreheads, not a cross. He had several takers. Merritt told me that participants at ODC asked for a religious presence, religious ritual, religious gatherings. A woman who came to the interfaith service wanted to express a joy, saying she was “happy I am living through this process, of finally standing up for something… we’re coming together of one accord for…

Gay and Christian and About to Lose Their Jobs

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…that institutions such as the military and private Christian colleges, who promote the ideas of honesty and integrity would force their members to adhere to statements that may result in employees feeling they must lie or hide to protect their livelihoods. Certainly, those who don’t like it can find new jobs and Shorter will have the employee base it wants — good, obedient, homogenized Christians who gladly sign a list of beliefs and adhere to the…

Gingrich Claims Obama Violates Catholics’ Right to Worship

By Sarah Posner

…aign stop, Gingrich, who has been fond of listing executive orders he will sign within hours of becoming president, added a new one to the list. He pledged that he would sign an executive order that would “repeal every aspect of Obama’s anti-religious bias,” a promise which, in true Gingrichian fashion, is sweeping, ridiculous, and impossible. But at his last stand in Florida, the idea of Obama as not only a destroyer of American exceptionalism, b…

Of Personhood and the Pill: What’s at Stake?

By Atlee Parks Breland

…reatment? Would you be willing to bet your health and fertility on it, and sign away your rights in exchange for promises that the eventual implementation will still have the necessary exceptions? Do you trust the men (and a handful of women) of the Mississippi legislature to make exactly the same choices you would? Taking Responsibility The weeks and months after my husband and I were diagnosed with infertility were the most difficult period of o…