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Pope Francis, Breeding Bunnies and Ideological Colonization

By Patricia Miller

…gencies forcing their values on the pure, unsuspecting Catholics of the developing world by imparting a “lack of openness to life,” which is code for abortion and contraception. In case this sounds familiar, it was a favorite theme of Pope John Paul II, who blasted efforts to expand access to family planning for women in the developing world as “contraceptive imperialism.” During the run-up to the historic 1994 Cairo Conference on Population and D…

Corporate Personhood Was a Radical Notion… In the 11th Century

By Austin Dacey

…egal Tradition. Without the legal device of a self-regulating association relatively insulated from arbitrary state power—be it guild, school, or church—our civilization would be unrecognizable. Amanda Porterfield, a professor of religion and history at Florida State University, observes at The Immanent Frame that although Americans are profoundly divided “over the extent to which corporate bodies should be free to govern themselves, these bodies…

Pentecostal Prayer Gangs: New Film Documents Religion in a Brazilian Prison

By Nick Street

…ork who was a freelance photographer was willing to come to Rio, work for well below his usually daily rate and sleep on the floor of my apartment in order to help with the project. At that point I had built trust with the inmates over about seven months, and I knew who I wanted to interview for the film and that they would be willing to speak into a camera if I was involved. So we just started to film the interviews as well as worship services in…

Pope Backs Anti-Gay Referendum; Islamic State Executions Include Gay Syrian; ‘Conscience Clause’ Debated in Northern Ireland; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…science clause” bill that would “effectively exempt people with ‘strongly held’ religious convictions from equality laws – allowing them to discriminate against gay people.” John O’Doherty of The Rainbow Project told UTV: “We believe this conscience clause will create a licence to discriminate for those who oppose the LGBT people here in Northern Ireland. “We don’t believe we should be treated as second-class citizens. We want to ensure equality f…

More Mixed Signals from Pope Francis; Church of England Wrestles with Rifts; Faith Groups Lobby Pro & Con on Irish Referendum; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…marriage involves children or not. Faith institutions already distinguish between civil and religious marriage. While it is proper that faith leaders govern their members’ access to religious marriage, they should not seek to prevent access to civil marriage. People of faith can exercise their freedom of conscience to vote yes to civil marriage in this referendum, as was done to permit civil divorce twenty years ago. In contrast, Catholic Bisohp…

#TeachAcceptance and the Fight for the Soul of SF’s Catholic Schools

By Patricia Miller

…ve” are the “sinfulness of contraception,” that “all extra-marital sexual relationships are gravely evil and that these include adultery, masturbation, fornication, the viewing of pornography and homosexual relations,” and that “the fundamental demands of justice require that the civil law preserve the definition of marriage as the union of one man and one woman.” The anti-gay language particularly rankled in the liberal diocese and prompted local…

‘I Don’t Buy It’: The Gospel According to Frank Underwood

By Cathleen Falsani

…He looks up, into the eyes of Jesus, and says, “Love. That’s what you’re selling? Well, I don’t buy it.” And then he spits at Jesus’ face. The act was shocking and yes, sacrilegious. I don’t believe we ever would have seen such a display on network television where advertisers rule and protests or boycotts surely would ensue. But it was authentic to Frank’s character, an unabashed, unapologetic villain. He’s a monster, but he’s still a human, if…

What This All-Star Christian Movie Gets Wrong About Christianity

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…re known to have troubling tropes, which is to say: all of them.) “Do You Believe” offers itself pretty frankly as a Christian version of 2004’s “Crash.” Here, though, the car accident brings together a dozen Chicago souls in need of Jesus: an older couple (Cybill Shepherd and Lee Majors) who have lost a child, a mom (Mira Sorvino) and a daughter without a home, a veteran with PTSD, an EMT being persecuted for his faith, and more. The plot is hamf…

New Mormon Anti-Gay Policy Sparks Mass Exodus From Church; Christian AID Workers in Africa Refuse to Help Gay Refugees; Ukraine Rejects, Then Accepts EU-Required Gay Rights Law; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ith U.S. Special Envoy for LGBT Rights; Leaks and Intrigue Continue TIME’s Elizabeth Dias reports that Vatican officials met on Tuesday with Randy Berry, U.S. Special Envoy for the Human Rights of LGBTI Persons. Berry met with officials from the Holy See’s Secretary of State office and separately with representatives from the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace. President Barack Obama only created Berry’s position at the State Department in A…

Why Body Cameras Won’t Solve Police Brutality

By Stephanie Gaskill

….” Yet racially charged theories and hypotheticals appeared almost immediately upon the video’s release. Faced with the horrific footage of one man shooting another in the back, viewers began to speculate, not about the man who had fired the gun, but about the man who had been killed. A black man running from a white police officer could not have been entirely innocent, the thinking ran. As Free Republic commenter “9th Life” put it, “Boy scouts do…