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Cruz Backs Bishops on Religious Liberty Claims

By Patricia Miller

…fired or discriminated against.” That’s not to say that this issue isn’t extremely important to the bishops’ conference. The letter to Congress was signed by the usual religious liberty suspects, including Archbishop William Lori, head of the Religious Liberty Committee, and Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone, who is under fire for imposing a strict “morality clause” on teachers in San Francisco’s Catholic schools. But in an indication of how the re…

U.S. Bishops Reject Pope Francis’ Priorities

By Patricia Miller

…ader array of social justice concerns. As Michael O’Loughlin reports at Crux, San Diego Bishop Robert McElroy, who was recently elevated by Francis, called the document “gravely hollow.” McElroy said, “In the specific key areas where it lays out how does the voter make a decision, it tilts in favor of abortion and euthanasia and excludes poverty and the environment.” The most aggressive revisions the bishops did make to “Faithful Citizenship” were…

Why The Church Can’t Stop Gun Violence

By Daniel Schultz

…e tribal politics that claim gun rights as an ideological imperative, for example, exposing the sublimated—and not so sublimated—racism that props up gun sales, or confronting the the 2nd Amendment idolatry that requires guns to fight off the imagined tyranny of an “illegitimate” federal government. But in the short run, people are understandably frustrated as the body count continues to rise. What can be done? The key, I think, lies with that ide…

Netanyahu’s (Republican) Esther Moment

By Sarah Posner

…agee, who serves as head pastor of the 18,000-member Cornerstone Church in San Antonio, Texas, hosts his own television program that is seen twice a day on TBN. He argues that the United States must join Israel in a pre-emptive military strike against Iran to fulfill God’s plan for both Israel and the West. Shortly after the release of his book last January, he launched Christians United for Israel (CUFI), a lobbying organization intended, he says…

How to Die in America: A Conversation with Ann Neumann

By Ellie Faustino

…r 22 – San Francisco, CA: Booksmith, 7:30 pm. A reading with an introduction by Katy Butler, author of Knocking on Heaven’s Door. Details. Mar 24 – Portland, OR: Powell’s Books, 7:30 pm. Introduction by Peg Sandeen, PhD, MSW, Executive Director of Death with Dignity. Details. Mar 29 – Los Angeles, CA: Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism and The Center for Health Journalism, USC…

Female Deacons: Pope Francis Walks It Back, Women Clergy Weigh In

By Kaya Oakes

…e ordination of a Roman Catholic woman. Last year, Father Jack McClure was sanctioned by San Francisco Archbishop Cordelione and prevented from saying mass for appearing at a women’s ordination gathering. Any Roman Catholic woman who pursues ordination in an independent Catholic Church (not considered to be in communion with Roman Catholic Church) is considered automatically excommunicated for breaking church law; members of the Roman Catholic Wom…

New Anti-Gay Snake Oil for Religious Right

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…as homosexual; choose cohabitation; be unfaithful to partners; contract sexually transmitted diseases; be sexually molested; have lower income levels; drink to get drunk; and smoke tobacco and marijuana.” Sounds horrifying, right? And this study is the “gold standard” because, “All the other studies that have come out on how kids do in same-sex homes are all done by lesbian activist scholars,” according to Focus’ Glenn Stanton. He’s obviously ref…

Times‘ Cutesy Guide Veils Humanity of Muslim Women

By Mariam Durrani

…tereotypes of Muslim women, are representative of the variegated and complex experiences and aspirations of Muslim subjects across the world. Rather than shed light on Muslim women’s lives, these articles contribute to the Islamophobic perceptions and stereotypes, which during this year’s election cycle have turned tragically violent. Attacks against women are often perpetrated against those who wear hijab. By presenting a faceless female figure r…

The Journalist and the Bishops: CNS Editor Fired For Tweeting Opposition to LGBT Discrimination

By Patricia Miller

…uman being is) that is in conflict with the Christian one” and said that sex reassignment surgery was against the moral law. The Nebraska Catholic Conference criticized pro-transgender bathroom policies as “harmful and deceptive gender ideology.” San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone joked last year that he was sure more transgender identities “will be invented as time goes on” and said the acceptance of “gender ideology” threatens not onl…

How Merle Haggard Saved My Soul

By Daniel Schultz

…faith, and from there into seminary and a career spent mostly serving a lot of people who looked and sounded like Merle Haggard. They think my love for him is a joke. I don’t care. So here’s to you, Mr. Haggard. God bless you and keep you, and thanks for everything, not least the excuse to drink this next round of Dickel—and the one after that. ________________ Craig Werner, who first turned me on to Merle Haggard, and who played “Okie from Muskog…