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Obama Shaking Hands with Warren While Winking at Gays?

By Jonathan L. Walton

…nsolidation. Remember, it was Ronald Reagan who announced his candidacy in Philadelphia, Mississippi, the place where three civil rights workers James Cheney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner were murdered. By doing so, he attracted disaffected white southerners by signaling the era of civil rights would meet its death. And it was Ronald Reagan who reduced the concerns of America’s poor to a caricatured image of a hyper-racialized welfare quee…

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…

US Bishops Meeting: Pope Who?

By Patricia Miller

…the VP of the bishops’ conference, as well as Archbishop Charles Chaput of Philadelphia, who has been highly critical of efforts to modernize the church. Newly appointed Chicago Bishop Blase J. Cupich was selected as an alternate. And Cardinal Timothy Dolan, who spent the meeting denying that there was any discord at the recent family synod and blaming any perception of such on the media, was elected to head the Committee on Pro-Life Activities, g…

Russian Attack on LGBTs at UN Rejected; Gay Cake Controversy Rages in N. Ireland; Bishop Calls for Marriage Referendum in Puerto Rico; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ke place in Salt Lake City in October.) Kevin Riordan, a columnist for the Philadelphia Inquirer, reported on a gathering of LGBT equality advocates trying to figure out how to make the most of the Pope’s visit. This week Francis met with 10 gay, transgender, and HIV positive prisoners who were among 90 the pontiff had lunch with during his visit to a prison in Naples. This week six openly gay U.S. ambassadors gathered at the Newseum in Washington…

Did Pope Francis Just End the Religion and Science Conflict?

By Donovan Schaefer

…ek, fellow Catholic Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum told a Philadelphia radio station that “The church has gotten it wrong a few times on science, and I think we probably are better off leaving science to the scientists and focus on what we’re really good at, which is theology and morality.” Ironically, like the anti-Catholic Draper, Santorum, Bush and other Catholic Republicans are deploying a version of the Conflict Thesis to ach…

The Next Generation of the Pro-Life Movement

By Bill Berkowitz

…of an entity called Repent America. In a February 2005 interview with the Philadelphia City Paper, Marcavage declared that “Homosexuals are to be put to death,” and “The wages of sin is death.” He went on: “But I want to make it clear that I’m not advocating the independent killing of homosexuals… I’m saying that the Government’s duty is to uphold God’s law.” “The thing that is most interesting is that these young, militant antis, including Lila…

It’s Not a Tea Party, Silly, It’s a Rebellion

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…nd in the future. Organized protests in major port cities like Charleston, Philadelphia, New York, and Boston, culminated in the extensive destruction of property by a group of colonial Boston agitators, unconvincingly disguised as “Indians.” The fundamental issue at stake was “taxation without representation.” That is important to keep in mind: the primary issue was economic, and the larger principle at stake was political. Religion played no app…

As a Latina Millennial I Have to Ask, Does the Catholic Church Stand a Chance?

By Fabiola Carrión

…h to take to social media spontaneously in honor of Pope Francis’ upcoming Philadelphia appearances, a couple of Catholic organizations ran a widely publicized contest to recruit citizen journalists between 18 and 35 to tweet, tumbl, post, vine and pin the papal visit. But will a hashtag or two be enough to engage my generation? Like many Latinos in the U.S., I grew up Catholic. Unlike many Latinos, this was my choice rather than my parents’. They…

A Link to Jewish History, RBG’s Iconic Collars Were a Beacon for the Marginalized

By Jodi Eichler-Levine

…Ruth Bader Ginsburg, at the National Museum of American Jewish History in Philadelphia. But they didn’t go alone. They brought a framed needlepoint with them, designed and stitched by member Bonnie Bacich. It depicted Justice Ginsburg against a vivid blue background. Behind her glasses, her eyes were blank—like the bound eyes of Lady Justice. Around the edges, Bacich’s friend Arlene Spector added a biblical quote to the design: “She speaks with w…

The Irony of Trumpism: A Turning Point for Muslims in American Politics

By David Krueger

The 2016 Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia came to an end last night with Hillary Clinton’s speech, in which she accepted the presidential nomination. Clinton, of course, was the star of the evening, but one of the most memorable speeches came from Khizr Khan, the father of U. S. Army captain Humayun S. M. Khan who was killed in Iraq in 2004. Khan opened his remarks by introducing himself and his wife as “patriotic American Muslims”…