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My House, My Rules: 3 Women Speakers “Rejected” From Women’s Day Event at Vatican (on Full Inclusion of Women in the Church)

By Mary E. Hunt

…eting space. The Götz Foundation is a generous donor to the Jesuit Refugee Service so it’s safe to assume some influence there. Dublin Archbishop Diarmuid Martin made clear that he was informed of the dissing by Ms. McAleese, not by his Roman colleagues. In fact, she has remained silent publicly on the matter, awaiting response to her private letter to Pope Francis who is Mr. Farrell’s boss. I wonder if this time the men are a little over their sk…

Should Christians Confess to Plants? A Cranky Meditation

By Greg Carey

…the presence of fellow believers and of God. It appears the Union worship service was part of a course on activism and liturgy rather than a regular chapel service. Perhaps worshipers were informed of the liturgy in advance. Were I asked to confess to plants without knowing it in advance, I would have been justified in feeling imposed upon. I’d also be aware others likely feel greater reservations than I. The classic liturgies have limitations, b…

It’s Not Me, It’s You: Catholic Values Dumping Trump

By Patricia Miller

…erman said in The Nation, “put racial, social, and economic justice at the center of the 2016 campaign”; to VP nominee Tim Kaine talking about how his Catholic faith “became something vital” and the “north star for orienting my life” which led him toward a “battle for social justice”; the convention demonstrated faith in action. Unlike the Republican Party, which tends to see “faith” as a static concept like “patriotism” that’s either performed co…

Ponzi Schemes and Prophecy

By Sarah Posner

…d hit 36,000) opined that Social Security was like a “Ponzi scheme” in the service of his argument that it should be privatized. (His failed prognostications on the robustness of the stock market should’ve put a big pin in that trial balloon.) And if you read the Austrian school economists and bloggers at the Von Mises Institute, you will find the inapt analogy deployed frequently as well. While not comparing Social Security to a Ponzi scheme, Bac…

Paul Schrader’s “First Reformed” Depicts Death Struggle Between Hope and Despair

By Peter Laarman

…there. The text that Michael has instructed Toller to use at his memorial service is the very last message for humanity that the Hebrew Bible attributes to God. As the Book of Job draws to a close, God rehearses the mysteries and wonders of the natural world and rebukes Job (and by extension all of us mortals) for our presumption of knowledge and control: “Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth? (etc.)” And, as he plots a consumma…

In 2012 Bishops Join Fight to Repackage Discrimination as ‘Religious Freedom’

By Sarah Posner

…nizations that play a vital role in providing health care and other needed services either to violate their conscience or severely curtail those services.” They conveniently avoid discussing the fact that many Catholic institutions already voluntarily provide insurance coverage for contraception. Nonetheless, Republicans, with a handful of Democratic co-sponsors, have introduced the Respect for Rights of Conscience Act, which would amend the Affor…

The Tense History Behind Jimmy Carter’s Liberty U. Commencement Address

By John Fea

…ry 2017, the Liberty University president read a Bible passage at a prayer service on the morning of the Trump inauguration. Carter, who was also in attendance, approached Falwell Jr. and thanked him for his words. As Falwell Jr. puts it, “He stopped me afterward and told me he thought I did a good job…He said he saw my name on the program before I spoke, and he thought it was great that I’d be here to read Scripture. He was very kind.” Carter did…

Leaked ‘Freedom Convoy’ Donor Comments Clearly Demonstrate Christian Nationalist Presence

By Thomas Lecaque

…g—it’s repeatedly been deployed by Christian nationalist groups before, in service of Trump and elsewhere. These are snapshots into a much, much, much broader field of commentary. There are literally thousands upon thousands of comments in this single donor file engaging in a range of theologies and ideological commentaries, in service of funding an insurrection in Canada. However sparse these particular examples may be, I hope that researchers wi…

Catholic Bishops Fund Anti-Choice ‘Clinics’ Set to Receive Trump Title X Funding

By Patricia Miller

…masquerading as a provider to entice unaware patients and capture federal funds that would otherwise go to full-service reproductive health providers. As Planned Parenthood President Dr. Leana Wen noted in a tweet, “Crisis pregnancy centers are not health centers. If the administration gets its way, Title X—our nation’s dedicated program for affordable birth control & reproductive healthcare—will be dismantled, leaving millions of people without a…

After Roe: 3 Troubling Trends from the ‘Compassionate’ Anti-Abortion Crowd

By Robert Repino

…in this camp also tend to call for religious organizations to provide the services that pregnant people will need in a post-Roe world. In reality, religious institutions provide a fraction of the services that state and federal governments do, only with no oversight and no accountability. Social Security alone costs over a trillion dollars a year. There’s no possible world in which religious institutions could make a difference, even if they vow…