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3 Reasons Catholic Bishops Are Holding Their Tongues on GOP Health Care Debacle

By Patricia Miller

…tion for faith-based adoption agencies to refuse to provide services to LGBT couples or individuals. The bishops also would love any GOP health reform plan to include a wide-ranging “conscience” clause that would allow health care providers to refuse to provide any service for moral or religious reasons, which could be used to deny services to LGBT patients or single mothers. When it comes to the Trump administration, the bishops have apparently d…

Dispatches from the Borderlands: Missing Voices

By Daniel Ramirez

…nic groups, to move into the American mainstream (the crucible of military service in World War II helped to overcome the setback). The draconian measures championed by some politicians and opinion shapers would repeat this wrenching experience for, among others, 3 million young U.S. citizens. As we flirt with legalized xenophobia and family disintegration, perhaps the silent shepherds will take up the ancient cloak of Mordecai and Esther and spea…

Amway, Religious Right Pyramid Scheme, Returns to the Motherland

By Bill Berkowitz

…ear-old Queens, New York, man who claims that Centropa (the Central Europe Center for Research and Documentation, an oral history project based in Vienna and Budapest that focuses on Jewish life and culture in the 20th and 21st centuries), published false information stating he was uncircumcised; A lengthy follow-up comment from a fellow suggesting that Bartholomew may himself be a witch because of the writing he has done exposing the horrific fat…

RNC Takes America to Church, Mormon Style, as Rank-and-File LDS Step Up

By Joanna Brooks

…sibilities of an LDS bishop—not theology, not ritual, but rather practical service that ranged from counseling physically, economically, and spiritually distressed parishioners to “shoveling snow for the elderly” and folding chairs after church meetings. Next came Ted and Pat Oparowski, Mormons from New Hampshire who Romney had visited every month when he was serving back in the 1970s as a “home teacher,” a volunteer position held by virtually eve…

Mormon “Martin Luther” Causes Stir by Uploading LDS Church Handbook of Instructions to Internet

By Joanna Brooks

…of status in the community. (In Mormonism, the demands of lay ministerial service do convey certain privileges as well.) So imagine how LDS web crawlers felt last week when we found ourselves staring at a blog published by a self-described Mormon “Martin Luther” who had scanned the entire CHI into two giant PDF files and put them on the internet. For just anyone. For free. A few hours later, a fully-searchable edition of the CHI started to make t…

Violence and Persecution of Christians Worldwide is Theme for Holy Week: A Report from Rome

By Anthea Butler

…ended victims.” From the homily forward, the focus was on the death at the center of Catholic faith, of Mary’s son Jesus. The Pope prostrated himself in prayer, Cardinals came to kiss the cross, and while there were no penitents who walked the steps on their knees to the altar (as in other countries) the solemnity of the service culminated in silence as we walked out from St Peter’s into the cool night. Later in the evening, the Via Crucis at the…

Istanbul ‘Haven of Sorts’ For LGBT Syrians and Iraqis; Cayman Islands Affirm Marriage Ban with ‘Holy Bible Evidence’; No Room for LGBTs in Malaysia’s ‘Islam-Based’ Human Rights Policy; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…half of State Department positions “are effectively off-limits for Foreign Service officers who would want to move with their same sex spouses.” Vatican: No room for LGBT Catholics at upcoming World Meeting of Families New Ways Ministry, a Catholic group planning to hold a conversation around gender identity issues during the Pope’s visit to Philadelphia next month, was banned by church officials from holding their event in a local parish. St. Joh…

Chilean Mine Rescue: Largest Global Spiritual Event Ever?

By Elizabeth Drescher

…Digital social media, that is, has allowed us to employ technology in the service of real and meaningful engagements with others even when these engagements are not face-to-face. The 6,040 people in the Facebook group “Chilean Miners,” for instance (people from Germany, Ireland, Argentina, Canada, Ohio, Wyoming, and so on) were watching the live feed from the mine in their homes, workplaces, cafes and other distributed locales, but praying togeth…

Conservative Christian Leader Attacks Commission on Conscience in War

By Rita Nakashima-Brock

…ses about the issues of moral and religious conscience facing our nation’s service members. The IRD claims to want more religious freedom, though not, evidently, for those serving in the Armed Forces. In his sneering diatribe, he manages to suggest that personal testimony from veterans of war is trivial entertainment, that supporting the exercise of moral conscience in war is America bashing, and that honoring the religious and moral conscience wi…

Celebrate Jesus with Weird Merchandise!

By Gwynne Watkins

…ration and new beginnings and people coming together—concepts that get lip service during even the most secular Christmas celebrations. Easter is about death and resurrection. It’s the highest holy day of the Christian calendar. That’s not an easy thing to package, which is probably why there’s a such clean break between the bunnies-and-eggs version of Easter, and the church-service version. Merchandisers are wise to define Easter by marshmallow c…