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Senator Ted Kennedy: A Catholic We Could Canonize

By Frances Kissling

…d as kin by those who share their heritage, age, or religion. I remember a phone call with my doctor immediately after the election of Barack Obama. We were rejoicing at the victory and he, an African American, said, “You cannot believe what this means to my family.” For Catholics, the election of John F. Kennedy and the successful work for justice of the Kennedy brothers and sisters were grace moments of acceptance and vindication; balm on the wo…

Soldier Hot Line Draws Calls Over DADT Repeal

By Lauri Lebo

…far between. The New York Times builds its whole story out of a handful of phone calls and an email. But the article indicates that those who run the various nonprofits that help soldiers achieve conscientious objector status expect a floodgate of calls if Don’t Ask Don’t Tell is formally repealed. The good news is that the groups don’t think there is legal basis for the claims. In the “don’t ask, don’t tell” cases, Ms. McNeil concluded that there…

Evangelicalism “Wasn’t Created for Someone Like Me”: Following a Queer Evangelical of Color in the Age of Trump

By Deborah Jian Lee

…n begin divesting from whiteness. It would have been a process that took many many years and so many sacrifices and commitments from church leadership and the congregation. There’s no way that someone like me, little-queer-Asian-woman-me, would have been enough to make them change hundreds of years of history, money, politics. So I don’t think about what my church could have done to keep me. Because they’re just so far from that, it feels foolish…

Aliens To Arrive in Alabama Today!

By Ben Brazil

…ages have also arrived in the last several hours, like this one from an anonymous poster: Any last minute regrets, Blossom? It’s not too late to back out now and say it’s all a hoax. I truly hope this event turns out as you predicted. God knows how much humanity needs a kick up the arse! History or disappointment beckons! Others accused Goodchild of profiteering on stupidity, while some posters kept their insults simple—“u r all nutters,” read one…

Is Bart Stupak As Marginalized As He Claims?

By Sarah Posner

…Representatives had it not been for his vociferous advocacy for his pseudonymous restriction on womens’ access to a legal medical procedure in the (partially) Affordable Health Care for (part of) America Act. Now he will be known as the hero of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and the religious right, for whom he is the poster boy of “conscience.” Stupak uses a profile in today’s New York Times to complain that the Democratic Party spurned…

The Rundown Truth: Scientology Changes Strategy in War with Media

By Hugh B. Urban

…ed throughout the 1950s as his newly-founded Church of Scientology grew in numbers and also attracted increasing scrutiny from the FDA, FBI, IRS, and other government agencies. Hubbard’s response to his critics was equally colorful. As he infamously wrote in his Manual of Justice in 1959: “People attack Scientology; I never forget it, always even the score.” Perhaps the most controversial form of Scientology’s response to its critics was a policy…

Black Masses Continue to Titillate Conservative Catholics

By Joseph Laycock

…cedented attention. Mayor Mick Cornett has already received 450 emails and phone calls opposing the event. Archbishop Paul Coakley has also condemned the event and called on Catholics to protest if it moves forward. Daniels, naturally, has expressed delight that his antics are finally provoking Church officials. This newfound energy has nothing to do with Daniels and everything to do with the events of last May. An online petition features footage…

Gay Black Church: An Interview with Bishop Yvette Flunder

By Lisa Webster

…me. Shirley and I were together already, because we’ve been together for many, many years now. And she’s Walter’s first cousin. She’s the voice on “Oh Happy Day”—great gospel singer. So there we were, and we were in bed, and in the middle of the night, around 3 o’clock in the morning, I woke up and I told her, I said: I feel that I’m being called to pastor a church. And she said, Well, you are pastoring a church. And I said, No, another church, aw…

Denying Communion to Prochoice Politicians

By Frances Kissling

…Archbishop Donald Wuerl will do. To date, Wuerl has refused to consider denying communion to legislators who disagree with church policy on abortion legislation. He prefers he says, to be in dialogue on the issue. And indeed, many pro-choice Senators, Representatives, Supreme Court Justices and administration officials who are prochoice and Catholic regularly and publicly receive communion in DC. You can see them for example at the annual “Red Ma…

Planned Parenthood ‘Stung’ By Lila Rose

By Bill Berkowitz

…y came of it… [Crutcher’s] efforts were, however, carried out over the telephone and the conversations were primarily with receptionists. Rose takes the effort farther. Video is far more compelling than recordings of phone calls. According to the Los Angeles Times: Rose, the third of eight children, grew up in San Jose. Her father is an engineer for Sun Microsystems. She was home schooled… and also attended a part-time Christian school and a junio…