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Looking at Death: Images of 9/11, Before, During, and After

By S. Brent Rodriguez Plate

…ned as a single person looking at some socially unacceptable event (for “sexual excitement” says the DSM, and I’m not going to delve into the relations of the sex and death drives here). In distinction, so many of the immediate, interreligious, seemingly-natural responses to 9/11 were to set up visual, material objects—images, flags, t-shirts, stuffed animals, written prayers—in an altar-like setting. Because images can be both a bomb and balm, t…

Fear of a Catholic Ghetto

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…iders, seems at least as unrealistic a prospect as convincing nearly all sexually-active adults in the U.S. that they shouldn’t use contraception. No, this problem will be something for Catholic institutions themselves to sort out. Catholic hospitals may have to negotiate a new compromise between integration into a wider system where it’s possible to do a lot of good; and sincere fidelity to a healthcare practice that very few of their constituen…

Ground Zero is Sacred Space, But Not Just Because of 9/11

By Randall Balmer

…nemy combatants.” But Americans themselves, sooner or later, rise to their better selves and come to embrace the principles of toleration and respect for minorities encoded into our charter documents and symbolized by that tiny parcel of land in lower Manhattan. Not universally, to be sure, and far too belatedly in the case of women and racial minorities, but we Americans generally come around. The proposed Islamic cultural center, Park51, provide…

Case Against Church-State Separation From Unlikely Source

By Peter Laarman

…ghts liberals. It kind of wrecks his thesis about there being a big gulf fixed between rights liberalism and ultimate support for union power. Perhaps this is why he also fails to mention the extremely important labor rights affirmations within the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights: a supreme achievement of “rights liberals,” led by Eleanor Roosevelt. A much more serious omission, in my view, is any reference to certain odious figures—e.g…

A Catholic Turnabout on Abortion or More Sympathy for the Bishops?

By Daniel C. Maguire

…y for the bishops,” which is an understatement. Brandishing hierarchical texts, Steinfels excoriates O’Brien for challenging “Catholic teaching at its root.” And there’s the rub. In place of the tripod of hierarchy, theologians, and sensus fidelism—which allows for mutual ongoing correction—Steinfels offers only the monopod of hierarchy. A trip through history to watch popes do such things as claim total authority over civil governments and deny t…

Why I Won’t Leave the Mormon Church Alone

By Holly Welker

…rch doesn’t offer you truth, integrity, or salvation in this life or the next. For years after my exodus, I tried to work out my feelings about Mormonism on my own, and to avoid saying anything about it that would upset my family. But it was difficult, particularly since the church wouldn’t leave me alone. (I got repeated phone calls, letters, and visits to my home from missionaries and people in the congregation, despite formal requests that they…

The Islamists vs. The Markets: Egypt’s Election Analyzed

By Haroon Moghul

…proof of that. I am not so convinced. In part because I see a distinction between Islamist parties and Islamist political structure; while a governing party may be more religiously conservative, they will not necessarily be able to change the very structure of government. Egypt, like Tunisia, seems to have developed a consensus around “civil” governance—not military rule, not Islamist, and not explicitly secularist. Moreover, there are of course…

Is Liberalism Islamic?: An Interview with Mustafa Akyol

By Haroon Moghul

…ore communitarian mindset that shaped Islam in its formative centuries. I explore such differences between the Qur’an and the post-Qur’anic tradition, and how they came to be, in my book. You say Muslims should tolerate sin. But of course we don’t tolerate some sins—murder, cheating, lying in certain circumstances. Are there some sins that we must object to socially? And if it isn’t a matter of state power, should Muslims still condemn sins? You m…

The Pope, The Chef & Krampus: Merry Yikesmas!

By Peter Manseau

…hat if John Paul II was the jolly Father Christmas of popes, then Benedict XVI is his Krampus? Yes and no. Benedict XVI has proven himself a much warmer figure as pontiff than he was as hunter of heretics. Yet how can it not be relevant that, for the leader of a billion Catholics, memories of the celebration of the birth of the savior are entwined with a nightmare of a horned demon raging at the kindergarten door? Folk traditions—whether they are…

Papal Profanity: The Vatican’s Pagan Museum

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…d you give the book? “Winckelmann’s Secret History.” I really liked the explicit interplay between Late Modern obsessions with sex versus Early Modern obsessions with religion. Others thought it too cutesy. How do you feel about the cover? It’s perhaps my favorite cover of any of my books. The image is one I selected after I first saw it at the Museo Braschi in Rome (Angelo Braschi was the pope, Pius VI, who saw the entire complex of Vatican…