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Pope Francis Loves Nuns, But Can the Divide Between Sisters and Vatican Be Healed?

By Megan Sweas

…he direction of Pope Francis. This year’s “Nuns on the Bus” tour starts in St. Louis this week and ends in Washington, D.C., in time for the start of the papal visit on September 23. Its theme, “bridge the divide,” refers to the political divide in our country, but the trip also speaks to the need for healing between sisters and church leadership. “Obviously, Pope Francis’ message is exactly what we’ve been doing for 43 years,” Campbell told Relig…

Akin, Spiritual Warfare, and the Radicalization of the Anti-Choice Movement

By Sarah Posner

…vernight, we can begin to take back our society one step at a time. The first step is to put an end to the destructive influence of Planned Parenthood, the organization that forced this tragedy upon our nation 40 years ago.” At the Stand Up for Religious Freedom rally, Bereit told me he opposed the legal precedent that Griswold set, as it laid the groundwork for Roe v. Wade. But when I pressed him about whether he agreed with ALL’s opposition to c…

Dear Hollywood, It’s Time to Start Making Films about Real Black Catholic Nuns

By Shannen Dee Williams

…nited States, for example, white Catholic sisterhoods were among the fiercest strongholds of racial segregation and white supremacy. The majority of white orders remained staunchly opposed to the integration of their ranks through America’s Civil Rights movement well into the 1960s, and most never had a single perpetually professed U.S.-born black sister in all of the 20th century. Moreover, archival records and oral history reveal that many pione…

Is Covid-19 Introducing a New Generation to Fears of ‘Jewish Contagion’?

By Amanda Furiasse

…his emerging outbreak, we need to separate facts from fear, and guard against stigma and panic.” Amidst COVID-19 spreading across the state, New Rochelle was arbitrarily selected as the primary site of contagion in the state of New York. Moreover, in the days that followed the arbitrary geographic containment zone didn’t limit or contain the COVID-19 outbreak to New Rochelle, but within a matter of days, New York City became the epicenter of COVID…

New History Finally Recognizes Afro-Creole Spiritualists

By Paul Harvey

…Ta-Nahesi Coates)? By definition alternative religious movements push against the status quo of religion, society, culture or politics. They are a critique of dominant culture, and therefore provide an effective platform for advancing radical and alternative views. For unorthodox black religious movements like the Cercle Harmonique, the Moorish Science Temple and others, this critique of dominant culture includes racism. Before Stokely Carmichael…

Red Riding Hood Arouses Man’s Inner (Were)Wolf

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…n Anglo-Saxon and Teutonic, rather than a Greco-Roman, myth. And what is most striking about these “werewolves” is that they are even more wolf-like than the wolves are. More predatory, more violent, more dangerous. There’s some confusion about the etymology of ‘were-wolf’ which appears to derive from the linkage of the words for “man” (vir) and wolf. But we hear a vague echo of “true” (wahr) in the name as well. The werewolf as a man-wolf. The we…

Modern Media and the “Exhibition Value” of the Corpse

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…amily or the tribe, as Benjamin himself seemed willing to do. One of the most striking differences about Walter Benjamin is that he tragically failed to escape the reach of the Nazis in France, and failed to flee to the New World as most of his fellow-travelers did. Benjamin was stopped with a group of fellow escapees at the Franco-Spanish border in 1940 and held overnight. Panicked, he committed suicide that same evening, whereas the rest of his…

The “Nones” Are Here… And Have Been for Over 100 Years

By Emily Mace

…? Another Ethical Culture leader, Percival Chubb of the Ethical Society of St. Louis, offered even more potent commentary in 1931 which relates to the similarities between what he referred to as the “strays on the religious frontier” and today’s “nones.” He called the world of the “nones” the “territory of the unchurched,” where people “have left the churches to which they belonged—mainly by accident of birth—to join the ranks of the unattached. S…

V-Day: An Arrow in the Heart

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…tin god, Saturn). True Christians, these Purists argued, only celebrated Easter. Still later, the whole domestic and private edifice of trees and turkeys and elaborate gift-giving (in part imagined as a reaction against the public drinking and wassailing) were a creation of the 19th century. And the evolution of that alternative tradition has many Christians on guard these days, trying to “keep the Christ in Christmas.” Christ, it is feared may ha…

How Much is a Google?

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…andard’s universality wrecked on the shoals of—what else?—religion. Your western standards of gender identity and gender equality are not ours, was the obvious religious rejoinder. There is no international law governing international gender relations. The current powers in China have long played on precisely these capitalist paradoxes and the moral quandaries they inspire. “You call them universal rights; we call them western impositions . . .” y…