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Indie Catholicism is Real: Married Clergy, LGBT Ordination, and Sacramental Justice for All

By Julie Byrne

…man parish the next weekend—and they usually are—still there has been that contact and interchange with independent Catholicism at a critical and intimate life moment. There is even an underground network of cooperation between priests of Roman and independent Catholic bodies. Numerous independent priests report that they occasionally get calls from Roman priest-friends who know they can’t legally do a sacrament, so they refer a parishioner to the…

Meeting on the Bridge: Fr. James Martin’s Ministry to LGBT Catholics Becomes a Book

By Kaya Oakes

A few years ago, the idea of a “celebrity Jesuit” would have puzzled most Americans. That was not only before the election of the first Jesuit pope, but also before Fr. James Martin began appearing on The Colbert Report, and before his books on saints, spirituality and prayer ascended the best-seller lists. Today, Martin occupies a unique place in religious media: still working a day job as the editor-at-large of America magazine (where I’m an oc…

In Repudiation of its Devastating Doctrine of Discovery, Vatican Masks the History and Responsibility of Catholic Church

By Elisha Chi

…rchdiocese issued a letter to be read at each mass, urging parishioners to contact their political representatives to advocate against extending the statute of limitations on child sex abuse cases. This rhetoric of separation between the political and the religious arises again in Pope Francis’s recent apology for the atrocities committed by Catholics operating Canadian residential schools. As he expressed, “many Christians supported the colonizin…

A Superhuman Spirituality: Ang Lee’s Life of Pi

By Beatrice Marovich

…bits of garbage? Sure we do—for now. The direct physical contact that most Americans today have with non-human animals is severely limited. There is no question that domesticated animals, like dogs, cats, and (the differently domesticated) rats exist in great abundance. We may not think about it much, but we can’t question the existence of animals such as cows and pigs that many of us eat. Perhaps, for most of us, there is little doubt that all of…

Ramadan: Third Day is the Charm

By Amina Wadud

…ocal mosque for the tarawih prayers and come out with out making any human contact. I think this is part of my preparation for hajj: how to perform the ritual requirements without invoking the politics of justice at every juncture. For example, in this mosque the women’s section is completely separated from the men’s, in a large room. Therefore to hear the imam, there is a speaker system set up. The volume on this puts young people who listen to r…

Hajj Journal: Makkah as the Most Romantic City

By Amina Wadud

…g in the shops, or jammed in the tight lines to get food at the local restaurants. Nobody says to women to stay behind, keep out, or keep away. There is so much bodily contact a person could be mistaken for being at one with all humankind, and not a measurement of one’s gender….

RDGenerations: Youth and Liberal Religion

By Lucia Hulsether

…portant for working with youth. M: Not only for youth! Well, how about the American Legion? It has money and knows what it wants to do. Is that a viable alternative model? L: There was definitely a lot of good about their program. I got more out of it than I expected, because the American Legion’s politics are fairly far off from mine. M: I’ve had friends who went to Boys State, and the camps were run on a military model, including marching drills…

Pope Tweeted into Retirement

By Rachel Wagner

…ll, we are available 24/7 for communications via multiple lines of digital contact. Amidst this chaotic stew of interactive entertainment Benedict has worked to figure out, with increasing urgency and frustration, just what the Church’s role ought to be. In his 2011 World Communications Day speech Benedict noted that recent “radical changes” in technology “are not only changing the way we communicate, but communication itself, so much so that it c…

What’s Wrong with the Controversial Businessweek “Mormon Money” Cover?

By Joanna Brooks

…) But the cover art makes those worthy questions moot. Today, I’ve been in contact with a few of the sources for the article, and they believe the mocking cover image will lead most Mormons to dismiss the entire article as an anti-Mormon hit piece. Trying to sell a few magazines, Businessweek destroyed an opportunity for a serious discussion. That’s not what any of the sources consulted for the article would have wanted. Another lost opportunity w…

No Room for Non-Theists at Boston Interfaith Service

By Becky Garrison

…On these pages one can find information about vigils, as well as emergency contact information for those students stranded during the city lockdown in the course of the manhunt for the two bombing suspects. Epstein’s Facebook profile picture has been changed to a photograph of Celeste Corcoran and her 18-year-old daughter, Sydney. (Celeste, close friend to a senior member of Epstein’s staff, lost both her legs at the knees in one of the bomb blast…