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Vatican Sexual Abuse Meeting Is Destined to Fail—To Stop the Problem or the Decline

By Mary E. Hunt

…all of the bishops were allegedly forced to tender their resignations, the numbers are plummeting. Ten years ago, 73% of Chileans called themselves Catholic. Today that percentage is 45 with reports that in Latin America as a whole numbers are down 20% in the same period. In Switzerland in November 2018, six prominent progressive Catholic women left the Church by filing the requisite papers that relieved them of contributing church taxes. Four are…

Heavenly Bodies Was the Most Popular Exhibit in the History of the Met—Here’s Why That’s a Problem

By Liz Bucar

…o go awry as soon as I arrived at the Met. I had pre-purchased my entrance ticket and the audio tour, only to find out that there was no audio tour. Things did not improve. I started in the Byzantine galley where five gold and silver metal mesh Versace dresses were on display, only they were placed above eye level, making it feel like I was peeking up the mannequins’ skirts. I see London, I see France, I see Versace’s underpants. The crush of peop…

All Of A Sudden, There’s Nazis Everywhere… And They Only Seem to Associate with One Party

By Daniel Schultz

…upted over this behavior, Nehlen responded by posting the names, telephone numbers, and email addresses of some of his critics. Nehlen’s so reviled that even Steve Bannon’s Breitbart has disavowed him, though no less accomplished a racist than Donald Trump himself praised Nehlen during the primary. Nehlen won’t come anywhere near unseating Ryan, of course, but that doesn’t mean the WisGOP—which appears not to have made any recent statements disavo…

The Religious Right Has Come Out of the Closet

By Patricia Miller

…ssed serious Christian such as Pence even considering a place on the Trump ticket, but when it was offered, he didn’t think twice, yoking the Christian Right to Trump in exchange for a promise to appoint conservative judges and let the right have it’s way with anti-abortion legislation. While publicly Trump presented himself as an ally of the religious right, in private Mayer reports he gleefully mocked their most dearly held goal—banning abortion…

The Democrats’ Real Religion Problem, And All Of Ours

By Daniel Schultz

…they do not speak the language of faith? A: Democrats must connect to moderate voters by speaking the language of faith. Q: Does race have anything to do with it? A: Race has nothing to do with it. Q: Does class have anything to do with it? A: Class has nothing to do with it. Q: Does partisan affiliation have anything to do with it? A: Partisan affiliation has nothing to do with it. Q: Does gerrymandering have anything to do with it? A: Gerrymand…

A Pence Presidency Would Give Margaret Atwood’s Dystopian Vision a Run for its Money

By Diane Winston

…ates 24/7 surveillance of citizens. Ever since Mike Pence joined the Trump ticket, I’ve been haunted by Duvall’s character. What would that quiet, white, Christian male authority look like in today’s world, and what kind of society would Commander, oops, President Pence seek to build? As Trump’s troubles grow by the hour so does the urgency of these questions. Online and off, the term Christofascism is creeping into conversations. Christofascism,…

RDNews: Oct 20, 2008

By Bill Berkowitz

…an cloning and physician-assisted suicide. Racial preferences would proliferate.” In his blog, Levey claimed that three liberal judges currently on the Supreme Court—Ruth Bader Ginsburg (age 75), John Paul Stevens (88), and David Souter (69)—would likely retire if Obama is elected president; if McCain is elected, those three would try to stay on for four more years. Levey’s blog also lists the “TOP TEN THINGS TO EXPECT FROM AN OBAMA SUPREME COURT”…

“The Call” Warns of Antichrist Legislation in California and Beyond

By Sarah Posner

…Palin as his running mate, Engle ramped up his support for the Republican ticket, likening Palin to the biblical Queen Esther who saved her people from destruction. When he was in Washington, I asked Engle whether young evangelicals were looking for the kind of revival he was preaching about, in light of heightened interest in issues beyond abortion and gay marriage. “I don’t mean the old time Pentecostal [revival],” Engle replied, “but real retu…

Joe the Plumber: Horatio Alger with Plumber’s Crack

By Jonathan L. Walton

…know. This all reads more like a Backyardigans adventure than a campaign strategy. But think about it. The Joe the Plumber costume works in the minds of a critical mass of American society because it strikes a familiar cultural chord. He is the archetype of a hard-working, thrifty, and industrious Americans who simply want government “out of the way” so that he can thrive. In this regard, Joe the Plumber is the latest reincarnation of the ahistori…

Layoffs on the Religious Right

By Bill Berkowitz

…% voted for McCain and 11% for Obama; McCain’s vote was about equal to the numbers that voted for President Bush in 2004. Barna reported that while evangelicals were generally unenthusiastic about either candidate, they came through in a big way for the McCain/Palin ticket. Barna points out that “unlike other polls, [it] classif[ies] a person as an evangelical based upon their answers to nine questions about their theological beliefs. [While] [m]o…