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

By Megan Sweas

…ng out the gospel message of feeding, clothing and caring for the poor and most vulnerable. They lead the way on environmental issues, human trafficking, immigration and poverty. Moreover, Catholic sisters respond to these issues with the “closeness” that Pope Francis says is important to him. Indeed, ABC showed Pimentel, executive director of Catholic Charities of the Rio Grande Valley, greeting immigrants with applause and hugs. Grounded in a de…

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

By Sarah Posner

…er colleague and the current executive director of STOPP, calling him “the most credible expert I have ever heard on the topic of Planned Parenthood.” STOPP’s petition web page to end federal funding of Planned Parenthood charges, among other things, that Planned Parenthood’s “top goal for the next 14 years is to push its agenda of promiscuous sex everywhere in our society,” and that it pushes pornography to children, covers up for rapists and chi…

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

By Shannen Dee Williams

…nt even further. In an article titled, “Why the ‘Sister Act’ Films are the Most Important Films of Our Times,” Stopera called plans for the remake a “sin” and credited the 1992 smash hit original and its 1993 sequel with making him “a better Catholic.” Why, you ask? “[Because] they just felt like real nuns,” Stopera wrote. Now to preface, I am a cradle Catholic and a huge fan of the Sister Act films. I have also spent the last nine years researchi…

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

…the Cercle, kept at the University of New Orleans, and produced one of the most important recent works I have seen in race and religion in American history. By focusing on Afro-Creole Spiritualism in New Orleans, we get an extended, as well as intimate, look at how one very particular group, mostly men and free people of color, envisioned their ideal society through the voices of spirit mediums. In doing so, they drew from French thinkers and hist…

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

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…ves are shape-shifters, much like vampires, though they are their sworn, almo*]}*st genetically-determined enemy. But recently we’ve learned that they can also make treaties and commit themselves to truces, fragile though they inevitably are. Vampires and werewolves can have common enemies (like witches), articulate common purpose (survival, most obviously), or strive heroically and movingly against their natural antipathies. Their relationship looks…

Modern Media and the “Exhibition Value” of the Corpse

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…tionship to the other critical theorists I mentioned there. Several of the most prominent figures in the movement between the wars, most notably Theodor Adorno, were great admirers of Benjamin’s quirky brilliance, and sometime-boosters of his work. But the fact that he continued to write about religious topics, especially Jewish topics, was perplexing to thinkers who were committed to the critical work of Marx and Freud, among others. Benjamin mad…

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

…g point is the assumption that such a question is either/or, then we are almo*]}*st sure to miss out on how interesting, and how lyrical, the subtle convergences between the Christian and the pagan could be in the ancient world. And how lyrical they continue to be in a Romantic age such as ours. Saint Valentinus. It was a common enough name in the Roman Empire, deriving as it did from the Latin word for worthiness (valens). There are no fewer than sev…

How Much is a Google?

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…want that. And for that very reason these matters will be debated for some time to come. But the fundamental terms of the debate have shifted, and that is a most promising development, for religious, and ethnic, and ethical minorities, worldwide….