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Bishops Elect Moderate to Lead Pro-Life Committee

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…. Cardinal O’Malley particularly raised the hackles of Archbishop Burke of St. Louis, who reportedly intimated that O’Malley was under the influence of Satan. In response, Cardinal O’Malley called for civility. In a lengthy blog post about the funeral, O’Malley warns against being nasty in the name of a cause one believes in: At times, even in the Church, zeal can lead people to issue harsh judgments and impute the worst motives to one another. Th…

Barack’s “My Plan for Iraq” a Missed Opportunity

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…n border region. Senator Obama also reiterates what has perhaps been his most cogent strategic sound-bite: that “we must be as careful getting out of Iraq as we were careless getting in.” But there is more in this text, and it is high time that a prominent Democrat stated the matter as clearly as he has done. Two sentences near the end of the essay make clear that this would-be President would indeed undo the Bush team’s true desires for Iraq. “I…

How Not To Respond to Haiti

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…tself to righteous finger-wagging, western incrimination, and more. I am most struck by the modern-ness of these matters, as well as by Nietzsche’s patient cautioning about the potential abuse built in to the language of “good and evil.” The paradox, one well noted by Nietzsche, is that I, located confidently on the political left, become positively moralistic in my outrage at Pat Robertson’s moral analysis of the Haitian disaster. None of this he…

Suspicion of the Modern Age: The Pope Regresses

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…has posed as a post-Modern thinker in the past. He is not; he is as anti-Modern as any of the other “enemies of reason” he first lambasted in Regensburg….

La Carmina, Author of ‘The Little Book of Satanism,’ Talks ‘Satanic Panic,’ QAnon, Japanese Satanism, and More

By Joseph Laycock

…o be important to the development of modern Satanism, as they mark “the first instances of individuals calling themselves Satanists, and holding Satanic religious values supported by some degree of organization.” The rivalry between The Church of Satan and The Satanic Temple can present an obstacle to researchers. What do you see as the most important differences between these groups? The foundational basis is quite different, as The Satanic Templ…

A Brief History of Olympic Flames

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…connection is new, and it has a subtly religious texture quite probably lost on most of us, especially the most aggressively secular heirs to the French Revolution. For the Olympics are deeply and abidingly religious. They always have been. First, then, to the historical facts. The Olympic Games were an essential part of a religious festival sponsored every four years at the sanctuary of Zeus at Olympia. These Games lasted for more than a millenn…

Bringing the Senate Back to Decency: An Election Day Morning After

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…e to which I keep returning. It offers a conclusion that brings me some chastened hope today: The most troublesome task of a reform President was that of bringing the Senate back to decency. This is the lesson I hope our current president can bring himself to learn after this midterm election. Not more coddling of old and new right-running Republican legislators. There has been enough of that already, and he has reaped a bitter harvest. He has emb…

Clinging to God, Guns, Obama, and Freud

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…lly problematic religious attitudes, and the issue of whether they are racist or elitist at their core. While I recognize that this may seem a bit of a stretch at first, the debate is beginning to remind me of debates at the turn of the twentieth century; debates that wondered very publicly and very polemically about the relationship between the new and untested “science” of psychology and traditional Judeo-Christian religion. Both William James a…

Vatican Seeks Virgin Amidst All This Sexual Impropriety

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…trying to leapfrog the judgment and get straight to self-forgiveness. Thus the Pope’s decision on Sunday to use John’s famous story about the woman caught in an adulterous liaison—and more specifically, Jesus’ cautionary word about “he who is without sin casting the first stone at her”—seems little more than a calculated way to use the sacred scriptures to manage a very profane affair. There seems little saintly or supernatural about any of this….

The Surprising Catholic Roots of the War on Xmas

By Patricia Miller

…week his talent for stirring the culture-war pot was on display outside of St. Louis, where he went to ostensibly promote tax cuts. “Trump appeared on stage with twin symbols of his vision of the country’s heritage—a pair of American flags and a row of Christmas trees,” reported the Washington Post. “I told you that we would be saying ‘Merry Christmas’ again,” Trump said as the crowd roared. “Remember, I was the one when I was here the last time,…