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With This Largely Overlooked Shakeup is the Russian Orthodox Church Looking to Westernize? Yes and No

By Katherine Kelaidis

…spent the majority of his career in Western Europe, including in Rome and Paris. One would hope that this would make him a more open, progressive (in relative terms), and cosmopolitan cleric than Patriarch Kirill or Metropolitan Hilarion, both of whom were shaped by the grueling realities and harsh isolation of the Soviet period. But the very fact of his elevation suggests that this hope might be false. Patriarch Kirill is a man under siege, and…

Conservative Catholics Unhappy About New Book on LGBTs and The Church; and More in the Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…,” said Kelvin Hopper, 25, a gay artist who lives in a hipster district of Paris and plans to cast his ballot for Le Pen. Among the party’s openly gay officials is Chief Campaign Strategist Sebastien Chenu. “Those who want to fight against freedoms are Islamic radicals,” Chenu said. “They put bombs in gay night clubs in the United States. So obviously, it creates an anxiety for a certain number of gays.” A Foreign Policy story reported that, in sp…

Like “The Bachelor,” But for Jesus: “The Sisterhood” Episode 1 Recap

By Jo Piazza

…out guys, but I still date them. It just happens,” she tells us. Claire, a parish music minister, is the one who may just come out of this as a sister. She has seriously been contemplating the vocation for more than five years and has been living as a single woman in preparation. She is the only one who dresses modestly before entering the convent. We can tell that Claire is skeptical of her new friends, but open to helping them on their journey….

When Welcoming the Stranger Was Not Just a Religious Value

By Melissa Borja

…rcefully opposed resettling Syrian refugees. In the wake of the attacks in Paris, thirty-one governors have refused to accept Syrian refugees for resettlement, and 289 House of Representatives voted last week to halt the resettlement of Syrian refugees. Politicians have proposed applying religious tests to screen refugees and accepting only Christians, creating a national database to track Muslims, and using the National Guard to round up Syrian r…

Here Comes President Boo Boo: Trump’s Tour as Reality TV

By Spencer Dew

…course, some less-spinnable moments in Europe, bickering over NATO and the Paris Agreement on climate change, moments which led to the characterization, by an unnamed State Department official, that the President acted like “a drunk tourist… Loud and tacky, shoving his way around the dance floor.” Of this, too, there were photographs, and video clips. Much has been written on Trump as a “reality TV president,” from the way his background on The Ap…

Kenneth Starr in the “Athens of Texas”

By Randall Balmer

…cause he’s not a Baptist, although he says he’ll join a Baptist church (if Paris is worth a mass, I suppose that Waco is worth a couple of praise songs.) Starr’s appointment is not surprising because it apparently reflects the right-wing leanings of the regents, if not necessarily the faculty or the students. Starr as special prosecutor, of course, sought to bring down the Clinton administration. (Was it my imagination, or did Starr seem just a ta…

Pope Praises ‘Complementarity’ & Resists Gay Ambassador; Irish Religious Leaders Spar Over Marriage; Colombian Atty Gen Cites ‘Bogus’ Study Opposing Adoption; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ore refused to discontinue a promotion which offers its customers discount tickets to a Christian magic show produced by Lawrence Khong, the anti-gay pastor of Faith Community Baptist Church: Mr Khong has claimed that gay people have “a shorter lifespan, more sexually transmitted infections and more health problems than the general population” and has warned of a “looming threat” of “homosexual activists” trying to repeal sodomy laws. Many custome…

Baring Their Testimonies: Mormon Women Get Naked for the Camera

By Holly Welker

…I also did a study abroad in Spain through the art program, with trips to Paris and London and so forth. I remember a conversation with a male art student in the program, a sculptor, who said that all nudity in art was pornographic. Of course I argued with him about it, and I think that most art students aren’t that extreme. But it shocked me. When did photographing Mormon women become a project you wanted to do? I love doing portraits—my favorit…

Jewishness Per Square Inch, Medieval Edition

By Sara Lipton

…e. In my first book I discussed two (admittedly large) manuscripts made in Paris in a single decade, and was able to delve deeply into their patronage, context, sources, uses, etc. In Dark Mirror I cover well over a hundred images made in seven countries over the course of 500 years. It inevitably feels like I’m skimming over a great deal, far too quickly. But it was important to me to tell a big story and to tell it as clearly as I could. What ar…

I Call BS on Nun Reality Show

By Gwynne Watkins

…speak. It’s not like women can be thrown into the discernment process like Paris Hilton being dropped into rural Arkansas. Potential nuns have to really, really want this. And the women need to know what they’re getting into. They need to live with the community for a specified period of time before taking vows. They must already be devoted Catholics, with no romantic attachments and no dependent children. For these reasons, it’s rare for young wo…