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70th National Prayer Breakfast Made ‘Cosmetic’ Changes, But Biden Delivered the Same Old Tone-Deaf ‘Unity’ Message

By Chrissy Stroop

…York Times to describe the NPB as “an international influence peddling bazaar.” Many commentators—including foremost expert on the Family, Jeff Sharlet himself—have noted that the changes to the event appear “largely cosmetic.” For some reason, President Joe Biden apparently thought it would be appropriate to make light of the controversies that forced the recent changes, addressing the guests gathered at the Hilton with, “Welcome to all 1,300. A…

In Hamline Case, the ‘Free Expression vs. Religious Sensibilities’ Frame Obscures a Stark Reality About Higher Education

By Junaid Jahangir

…here the faculty earns much less compared to higher administration, whose salaries mimic those of CEOs of private companies. In such a system, PR damage control and punitive measures are given precedence over critical thinking and reasonable approaches, both of which have been in short supply in the handling of this incident. While the issue has largely been framed as a conflict between freedom of expression and the cultural sensibilities of a min…

Crowdsourced Catholicism: New iPhone App Lets Users Forgive Sins

By Vincent Gonzalez

…off chatting for a while. Take a cold shower if you think you might do it again. Monkey, an untitled confessor from California also responded within the day: At least it wasnt real sex! Then you’d be confessing to the police and not to me. Make sure you don’t. The confessors—no less than us, we eavesdroppers outside the confessional—must labor to fill in the salacious details. Was that the confession of a seventeen-year-old or a fifty-year…

Turkish Police Move Against Activists Who Defied Pride Ban; And More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…2017 Pride event hosted by the department’s Office of Civil Rights and GLIFAA (LGBT+Pride in Foreign Affairs Agencies). On Wednesday, June 28, the State Department will host an interactive online conversation about discrimination and violence against vulnerable groups, including LGBTI people. Catholic Church: Bishops respond differently to Pope Francis Two U.S. church leaders have demonstrated the range of opinion and division within the hierarchy…

Infanticide Still Not a Growing Movement: 30 Years of Pro-Life Fudging

By Daniel Silliman

…man has the right not only to terminate her pregnancy, but to put to death a child up to the age of 4 or 5. The report has been accepted—apparently uncritically—by Gene Veith, who teaches literature at Patrick Henry College (whose president just resigned), by a variety of conservative bloggers, and by many more on Facebook. The evidence for the growing trend is nonexistent. McArdle herself admits the report is based on anecdote. She cites two pro-…

The Story Behind the Catholic Church’s Stunning Contraception Reversal

By Patricia Miller

On this 50th anniversary of Pope Paul VI’s historic encyclical, Humanae Vitae, Religion Dispatches reaches into the archive to bring you the surprising story of its controversial conclusions on birth control, originally published in 2014. Years later, when the remembrance of so many other things had faded, the memory still remained crisp in her mind. She saw herself lying in the hospital bed, bleeding, writhing in agony. She remembered clawing at…

Elaine Howard Ecklund Wants to Dispel Myths Surrounding Religious Resistance to Science

By Sammy Feldblum

…y called “non-overlapping magisteria”—come into contact. As useful as the data can often be, Ecklund’s interpretations and prescriptions often strain to “depoliticize” the sites of conflict, as if it’s even possible to depoliticize an issue like climate science in the United States. Her reasons are numerous, no doubt, but the factors that distort public discussion, money and power, are the kinds of forces that can warp research of this kind. If on…

3 Reasons Catholic Bishops Are Holding Their Tongues on GOP Health Care Debacle

By Patricia Miller

…Catholic Bishops, who personally went to the White House to complain to Obama. A special committee was formed. Legislators were lobbied. Lay Catholics were called on to protest. A scorching letter was read aloud by bishops at masses across the country. And threats were made about the Catholic vote in 2012. But now, even as the clearly deceptive and immoral Trump administration plunges further into chaos and the Republican Party uses it as a distr…

A Peek Inside the ‘Onion’ of Scientology

By Kristin Rawls

…006 article, “Inside Scientology.” The piece was nominated for a National Magazine Award and provided some of the groundwork for her new book, Inside Scientology: The History of America’s Most Secretive Religion. Reitman has spent the past five years researching the controversial Church of Scientology, seeking, “to understand Scientology: not to judge, but simply to absorb.” The result is an exhaustive narrative history of the Church that shatters…

The Story Behind the Catholic Church’s Stunning Reversal on Contraception

By Patricia Miller

…nding the bed, trying get help, certain she was going to die. Finally she managed to cry out, “God dammit, I can’t die. I have five children.” Her cries roused her roommate, who summoned a doctor. The doctor managed to staunch the bleeding from the hematoma that had resulted from the birth of her fifth child. It was not an unexpected complication. She had hemorrhaged after giving birth to her fourth child. The doctors had warned her against any mo…