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Everything Was Better When We Had God In Our Schools

By Hollis Phelps

…ion.” Making people angry and being subject to public ridicule is just the price you pay for doing God’s work, and that includes “telling the truth” in even the worst of situations, when others don’t want to hear it. Dobson, Huckabee, Fischer, and friends can thus chalk up the outcry over their comments to being faithful servants. Perhaps another, more fruitful approach would be to take the bait, to force their hand asking Dobson, Huckabee, and Fi…

Combat Soldiers & Clergywomen: Problematic Equality

By Mary E. Hunt

…hero who risks death and kills the enemy. That seems to me an awfully high price for equality. For priests, the entrance of women into the Roman Catholic clerical caste will reinforce the status and role of clergy and reinscribe the power of difference (they are not lay people anymore). What a steep tab for proving the simple point of gender equality. When the celebrations wind down I will be looking for people who want to ask hard questions about…

Nuns on the Bus: 2700 Miles, Nine States, and a Rock Star DC Welcome

By Mary E. Hunt

…bleachers, and eight speakers lined up to address the crowd. The audience numbered about 30. Even Timothy Dolan at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York City, on the kickoff day of the Fortnight, only gathered 250 people. The nuns got that many in small towns across the country at stop after stop. The bus trip also proved that there is a deep hunger across generations for this kind of faith-based organizing. The crowd in DC was surprisingly younger…

Papal Retirement: A Matter of Conscience

By Mary E. Hunt

…hange groups doing a wonderful job of living new ways of being church. Some of them even know Latin. What do you give to the Pope on the occasion of his retirement? I am sure he has more Rolex watches than he needs, and the red shoes he likes are out of my price range. But a new church would be just the thing to assure him a dignified old age. Instead of simply retiring quietly to Castel Gandolfo, if his health permits, Joseph Ratzinger might enjo…

Monsignor Lynn Convicted in Church Sex Abuse Trial

By Anthea Butler

…edom,” which do not hide the Janus face of the USCCB. Freedom may become a pricey commodity for leaders of the church who continue to operate with impunity, ignoring their own norms for sexual abuse. It is time for those Bishops who allowed these evils to continue to pay the price for their sins. If they want to fight the government, fine. Now with the conviction of Lynn, the government has served them notice that the law is not afraid to hold the…

Sikh Prof. Prabhjot Singh Was Not The ‘Victim’ of a Hate Crime

By Simran Jeet Singh

…oppression. Sikhs celebrate his service and contribution and remember the price he paid in the Ardās, a prayer that includes the words “band band katāe (dismembered joint-by-joint).” The story of Bhai Mani Singh symbolizes the Sikh commitment to battle oppression and to celebrate those who have made sacrifices to stand against injustice. Sikhs do not remember him as a helpless victim but as a heroic activist. The narrative of victimization surrou…

Secure Borders? Not a Chance, Senator

By Ira Chernus

…pired by Ronald Reagan is demanding the fantasy of “secure borders” as the price for immigration reform. Tweed and Wuthnow point to a logical explanation. What we really have here is a contest between two modes of American spirituality, with the nation’s borders as the symbolic playing field on which the contest is fought out. Liberals want a path to citizenship for the roughly 11 million undocumented residents now in the country, without any stip…

How Will We Teach About Sikhism After the Tragedy?

By Laurie Patton

…the Sikh community in America. The need for this video indicates the deep price of such open hospitality—a kind of vulnerability that many minority communities still face—especially when they become religiously organized. Indeed, when one or two Sikhs lived in a town, they may have been the town’s “quirky” exceptions, the strangers that were token symbols of tolerance. But when a community of Sikhs began to gather amongst themselves, and to build…

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Titanic: “Eurabian” Alarmism 2.0

By Haroon Moghul

…but rather with who wields that force and against whom. It is true that a number of Muslims hold uncomfortable political views, even on matters of violence. It is also true, however, that most human beings generally speaking do the same. Many Muslims saw the 1990s sanctions on Iraq as horrific; in the United States, our leadership didn’t have too much of a problem with them—even defending them as painfully necessary. When asked her reaction to ha…

Barack Obama, Pro-Life Hero

By Eric C. Miller

…birth control, making a variety of options available free of charge. Once price was no longer a concern, many of the women opted for relatively expensive intrauterine devices (IUDs) which are among the most effective forms available: The effect on teen pregnancy was striking: There were 6.3 births per 1,000 teenagers in the study. Compare that to a national rate of 34 births per 1,000 teens in 2010. There also were substantially lower rates of ab…