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“Saints Are Only Human”: Leaving the Church, But Heeding this Pope’s Lessons

By Elizabeth Colmant Estes

…slogans about immigration reform. On line I heard that parishes with large numbers of undocumented immigrants had received many tickets. No outside food or water, statues, gifts or selfie sticks were permitted. Despite 10,000 folding chairs, most of us would have no choice but to stand. Once in my appointed place behind the last row of seats, I found myself in a community of fellow pilgrims, lottery winners from local parishes, nearby colleges, an…

Religious Right Breaks the Bank to Fight Gay Marriage

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…urch buildings and equipment during the campaign. Most of the rest went to airline tickets, hotels and meals for church officials. Focus on the Family, the evangelical Christian media empire based in Colorado, reported giving $657,000 in cash and services to promote Proposition 8. All this money was thrown around by the religious right (forcing the other side to waste money fighting them) that could have been used to improve the lives of the 7.6 m…

Saint Michael… Spied in a Stump, Haunting Larry King

By Anthea Butler

…ngs over and over again, dancing in the streets, and even buying expensive airline tickets to Los Angeles, hoping for a long shot lottery ticket that would let them into the inner sanctum of the Staples Center for the memorial service. I’d say that already makes for thousands of devotees—even the Rev. Sharpton, whose dance moves [image left, more here] at the Apollo in honor of St. Michael were more like a Bacchanal than a holy Ghost dance. All of…

The Santa Killer: Death Imitating Art

By Jonathan Fast

…nly that artists and killers sometimes drink from the same well. References Fast, Jonathan. Ceremonial Violence: A Psychological Explanation of School Shootings. New York: The Overlook Press, 2008. Kernberg, O F. “A Psychoanalytic Classification of Character Pathology.” Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association 18, no. 4 (October 1970): 800-22. Moreno, J. L. The Essential Moreno: Writings on Psychodrama, Group Method and Spontaneity. Spri…

We Went Through Amoris Laetitia Section by Section So You Wouldn’t Have To

By Anthony Adams

…ualism is bad. Also, he notes but offers no explanation for the decreasing number of marriages in many countries. I am glad to see that in Section 34 he understands this basic fact of contemporary western culture: The ideal of marriage, marked by a commitment to exclusivity and stability, is swept aside whenever it proves inconvenient or tiresome. The fear of loneliness and the desire for stability and fidelity exist side by side with a growing fe…

Listening and Supporting: The Spirituality of Nurses

By Wendy Cadge

…taments, Qur’ans, and Catholic medals actually in bed with the babies, in plastic bags labeled with their names. Families invited nurses to attend related rituals that took place in the intensive care units, and Catholic nurses sometimes agreed to serve as godparents for Catholic babies baptized in emergency situations. The nurses I interviewed responded to family-initiated discussions about spirituality and religion more than they started them. S…

Does Prayer Work? Do Prayer Studies Work?

By Wendy Cadge

…or more: Cadge, Wendy. 2009. “Saying Your Prayers, Constructing Your Religions: Medical Studies of Intercessory Prayer.” Journal of Religion 89: 299-327. Email us at info@religiondispatches.org for a copy….

Praying in Fear

By Shabana Mir

…nd The Siege. Hollywood loves the salaah. Unlike the familiar (Christian) clasping of hands and bowing of head, the salaah offers a lot more to the eye. Not only do Muslims wash up an inordinate amount before the salaah (this is called wudu), but they stand up with arms clasped and head bowed. And wait, then they bow down in ruku’ just before they fall into prostration, palms and face flat on the floor and butt visible as they bend down in sujud….

Put Your Money Where Your Mind Is: A For-Profit Meditation Studio Opens in New York

By Michael Schulson

…r with duct tape.” In truth, opening a business in Manhattan isn’t exactly cheap. And MNDFL offers a range of class times and options that few temples or nonprofit meditation centers would be able to match. For yoga practitioners, the story here might sound familiar. A spiritual practice, fresh from the exotic Orient, becomes popular among American elites, and adapts itself to the world of for-profit fitness instruction. You might say that MNDFL i…

Evidence Strongly Suggests Trump Was Collaborating with Christian Nationalist Leaders Before January 6th

By Matthew D. Taylor and Bradley Onishi

…by one of Wagner’s apostles, Paul Marc Goulet, while visiting a church in Las Vegas. This Appeal to Heaven vigor about Trump and revival dovetailed with hundreds of prophecies from the NAR and other networks of charismatic prophets echoing that God had destined Trump to win the 2020 election. In the helter-skelter season between the 2020 election and the January 6 attempt to forcibly interfere with the result, the Appeal to Heaven flag had become…