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Coming Out on a Christian Campus, Then and Now

By Ed Madden

…eed right now, it’s to know that my fellow students don’t hate me.” As one student said in Harding’s student newspaper last week: “The writers of this publication don’t feel safe speaking their minds and hearts publicly. This is a failure of the institution.” On the Menu: Capitalism and Christianity Media coverage has focused on Harding as a religious institution: the university’s policies on sexual morality, the president’s quotations from the Bi…

Dear Mitt, Young Mormon Families Need Medicaid Too

By Catherine Jeppsen

…w that using Medicaid to finance childbirth is a common decision among our student peers. LDS student families also take advantage of low-income housing, WIC vouchers, and other assistance. Restrictions on student employment, caps on student loans, and the high costs of insurance premiums and maternity deductibles don’t leave many other choices. These students aren’t relying on government aid because they are irresponsible or careless. Young Mormo…

For the Love of God, Bono, Please Stop Touring

By Ben Swihart

…the flag that wants them destroyed They saw their names listed in the telephone directory of destruction They were trained to turn the other cheek by newspapers that misspelled, mispronounced and misunderstood their names and celebrated when death came and stole their final laundry ticket” -excerpt from “Puerto Rican Obituary” by Pedro Pietri Then the lights went out and the stage lit up, and 60,000 white people finally started paying attention….

Francis Visits the Church that John Paul Broke

By Patricia Miller

…umber of marriages within the church has declined by nearly half. Only the number of Catholic funerals has held steady. And while the number of Catholics overall has remained level, that’s largely due to Hispanic migration to the US; some 40 percent of those born Catholic have left the church. But numbers don’t tell the whole story. The church Francis will encounter is fundamentally different in character from the church of John Paul in two import…

Why Crux‘s Knights of Columbus “Partnership” is Problematic

By Kaya Oakes

…mpaigns in Maine, Maryland, Minnesota and Washington. In 2005, they printed 800,000 postcards in Canada “in a campaign that [argued] that the redefinition of marriage to include gay and lesbian couples would promote pedophilia, pornography and unsafe sex.” As Marianne Duddy-Burke of the LGBTQ Catholic organization Dignity USA commented in a press release, “The Knights are deeply invested in advancing a particular brand of Catholicism, and I am con…

Doubt v. Predator: A Vatican II Parable

By Gabriel Mckee

…she has done the same to him: she knows that every priest was once a nun’s student, and speaks to him as she would a student who has been sent to her for discipline. But as tempting as it is to see this as an embodiment of the cliché about women holding the real power in the Church, the story, like the real world, doesn’t bear this out. In the end Flynn suffers no consequences from Sister Aloysius’s suspicions. The changes of Vatican II, embodied…

Refusing the Monsters on Maple Street: A First-Person Commentary from the Mass Hysteria at JFK

By Marion Grau

…alse—swept through the terminals, sending passengers, law-enforcement, and airline workers scrambling for cover and eventually onto the tarmac. The responding authorities found neither shooters nor evidence of any shots fired. The most likely explanation offered for the panic was that the cheering of Olympics fans for Usain Bolt’s performance in the 100 meters sounded like gunfire. In an episode titled “The Monsters are Due on Maple Street,” from…

An Open Letter to CEO Jeff Smisek On United Airlines’ Blasphemous Safety Video

By Austin Dacey

…ual recompense. In the video message that was played before my last United Airlines flight, you expressed your desire to greet each and every passenger; you invited us to sit back, relax, and enjoy the flight. If I could greet you now, I would want to know: were you unaware of the monstrosity that was about to follow? There, rising above the hiss of the pressurized air, as the video monitors snapped to the image of an engorged sun bursting from be…

Students at Conservative Catholic College Speak After Sudden Cancellation of Pro-Gay Speaker

By Rob Shryock

…n-forum/protest called “Fighting for Academic Freedom.” At the meeting, a number of LGBT students made clear that they were profoundly upset by the administration’s decision. One student noted that the college’s actions had “further alienated the LGBT community”; that Lena’s decision implied that LGBT people were not “creatures of value and worth”; and that Providence had “directly defied the pope’s ecumenical redirection to a deeper respect for…

The Sacred and the Dead: It’s (Not) Just a Box of Rain

By Cathleen Falsani

…his are the “geeks.” When we first meet Lindsay—an exemplary if languorous student all-star “mathlete”—she is beginning to question what she’s been taught by her parents, her schools, and her church. After Lindsay’s grandmother tells her, moments before she dies, that she sees “nothing” on the “other side,” Lindsay proclaims her nascent atheism, dons her father’s old green Army jacket, abandons her nerdy cohort, and befriends a group of fringe-dwe…