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After Her Remarks Pope JPII Was Never the Same — Controversial, Beloved Sr Theresa Kane’s Effect on the Catholic Church Endures

By Mary E. Hunt

…like Women’s Ordination Conference, Call to Action, Future Church, Dignity USA, Women’s Alliance for Theology, Ethics and Ritual (WATER), and others whose very existence chills the bones of ecclesial patriarchs. She strategized and collaborated with many groups, always realistic about what was possible. She once said that it was fruitless to look to the institutional church for things it was constitutionally incapable of being, like egalitarian. S…

Why Hillary Clinton is Truly Unelectable

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…perficial level, to help her cause enormously. After all, “she’s been there,” and, as she has unerringly reminded us for months, she’s not only been there before, but she has learned from her mistakes. That’s the problem, in a nutshell. Not her past mistakes, but her past. It is simply unimaginable that the Democratic Party, in the wake of the disastrous second term of a second Bush presidency, would field a candidate who herself represents a dyna…

Progressive Christian: Wallis “No Longer Speaks for Us”

By Sarah Posner

…ners’ response “deeply unsatisfying”), comes this statement from Integrity USA, challenging “Jim Wallis and Sojourners to live up to their own mission statement and to walk the talk of social justice they purport to embody.” The statement continues: [I]t is incomprehensible to us that they would decline to run an ad that quite simply depicts a pastor modeling for his congregation that “all are welcome” as a lesbian couple and their son visit the…

Anti-Trans Bus Tour Is Not Very Welcome In Spanish Cities; Gay Rights As A Weapon In Nationalist War On Muslims; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…South Africa, Syria, Brazil, Jordan, Pakistan, Turkey, Canada, the UK and USA, The group Parity organized an effort to have LGBT-affirming clergy offer Ash Wednesday ashes that had purple glitter mixed into them. When Parity came up with the idea of glitter ashes, some Christians, even liberal ones, objected to the concept, saying that joyful glitter doesn’t belong on Ash Wednesday, a day of repentance. Others said that asking people to choose be…

Americans Are Overtreated to Death

By Daniel Schultz

…we’re all terminal in the end. But by God’s grace, most of us can be healed, that is, reconciled to our situation. It’s important to introduce that distinction to those for whom we practice soul-care, to help them stop clutching at straws, among other things. So to my mind, the last graf of this piece is the most important: “Cancer that can’t be cured is often called daunting but not hopeless. So that’s what patients hear. Hope is the last thing t…

LGBT Affirming Christians Issue Prebuttal to Values Voter Summit

By Peter Montgomery

…God.” Too many children and youth suffer in silence in oppressive families, schools, and churches, said Hall, and if “those of us in pulpits” can say with energy, clarity and compassion that it is good to be LGBT, “we will save lives.” Brent Childers of Faith in America also spoke of the pain and emotional and spiritual harm caused LGBT people and their families by churches that promote anti-gay messages. Childers said that he was once one of the…

Will A Methodist Hold Up Health Care for the Catholic Bishops?

By Sarah Posner

…e Action Center, The Episcopal Church, Jewish Women International, NA’AMAT USA, the National Council of Jewish Women, the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Washington Office, the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice, The Religious Institute, the Union for Reform Judaism, the United Church of Christ, Justice and Witness Ministries, the United Methodist Church-General Board of Church and Society, and the Unitarian Universalist Association of Congr…

Christian Voter Guide: Jesus is Wrong on the Issues and Wrong for America

By Daniel Schultz

…hristian Voting Guide™ A higher score means the greater God will bless the USA. Liberty, better jobs and God’s protection come from higher scores. Helping those with lower scores means more troubles from God’s judgment for disobeying the Holy Bible, as well as unjust laws against God. This chart also reveals what percentage of a true American the person is. Candidate Overall Rating Fears God Demands to Have Christian Religious Liberty Insists to H…

Catholic Bishops Throw Cold Water on Ice Bucket Challenge

By Patricia Miller

…Planned Parenthood and pro-abortion leanings that the national Girl Scouts USA organization, which takes no position on abortion or contraception, denies. In April, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops completed a one-year “official inquiry” into the Girl Scouts that found many of the charges baseless. The bishops praised the Girl Scouts organization for its transparency and willingness to revise materials and concluded that it should be up to…

Christian Nationalism is Authentically Christian — And According to a New Poll Most White Evangelicals are Supporters

By Chrissy Stroop

…phic, with 61% rejecters in each group. Meanwhile, PRRI’s survey finds that, at 54%, a majority of Republicans are also Christian nationalist adherents (21%) or sympathizers (33%). Also among PRRI’s findings is that “Christian nationalism adherents are nearly twice as likely as Americans overall to report attending religious services at least a few times a month (54% vs. 28%).” Further, “44% of Christian nationalism adherents report that religion…