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Romney: “A Life Balanced Between Fear and Greed”?

By Joanna Brooks

…ught important stories in the Washington Post, the New York Times, and the Boston Globe about how Mitt Romney does business. The picture they paint is not entirely new, but it is consistent: Romney extracted value while, and sometimes by, outsourcing and destroying jobs, at times financing deals through “leveraged buyouts” that added substantially to the debts of companies trying to stay afloat. One source close to the GOP candidate told the Globe…

Revealing Joseph Smith’s (Well-Known) Polygamy Doesn’t Address the LDS Church’s Bigger Problem

By Joanna Brooks

…feel in my bones. “I am the Relief Society president in my singles ward in Boston,” she told me, indicating her role as an appointed spiritual leader of a community of college-aged young women. “People are really struggling to make sense of all the problems in Mormon history and theology and to hang on in spite of them. What do I tell them?” I wished in that moment—as I so often do—that these very real, very searching questions found greater suppo…

The End of the Religious Right? Not So Fast

By Frederick Clarkson

…Daniels, a possible 2012 GOP presidential contender, backed right off. Rob Boston, who has written about the religious right for two decades concluded that “Daniels’ quick retreat” indicates “that the religious right has lost none of its political punch.” Politicians and their vassals understandably wish that contentious matters, over which there is little agreement (and over which they have no control), would miraculously disappear. And pols from…

Predicting the Future of Religion: A Thought Experiment

By Ed Simon

…the Curia. Expect the next Pope to be from Manila or Yaoundé and not from Boston or Chicago. Whether this will herald a more progressive church or a reactionary one is a matter of debate. Right now Pope Francis is attempting to extend his influence beyond the end of his papacy as much as possible by selecting the cardinals who will elect the next pope. As it stands now there are a few things that may happen upon Pope Francis’ passing: the Church…

Comparing Gender Transition and Surrogacy to War and Human Trafficking, Vatican’s ‘Dignitas Infinita’ is an Intellectually Embarrassing and Harmful Mess

By Mary E. Hunt

…s moral reflection is needed. This is not it. The rest of the document, 66 numbered paragraphs, includes an introduction to the notion of human dignity which for the Vatican boils down to Natural Law, and a history of the concept of human rights as it has emerged in Catholicism and some global platforms. The second half is a catalog of what are considered by the writers to be “grave violations” of human dignity: poverty, war, injustice to migrants…

Vatican Seeks Virgin Amidst All This Sexual Impropriety

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…authority. Accusations of such abuse are now becoming global in scope—from Boston, to Bavaria, to Ireland—and the moral challenge created by these matters is compounded by the apparent collusion of church officialdom in several overlapping cover-ups. While it is tempting to go for the papal jugular in the face of such scandals—especially among those who are most adamantly opposed, not just to these two anti-modern papacies, but to the entire archi…

Welcome to the RNC’s Elmer Gantry Tent Revival

By Paula Cooey

…several times a day before writing the book which was ultimately banned in Boston and excoriated from pulpits throughout the land. The Trump GOP convention seems for all the world to be loosely orchestrated as an odd sort of tent revival. Its choreographers have put it together around the personal narratives of individuals who have suffered loss for one reason or another, ranging from undocumented immigration (Sabine Durden, whose son Dominic was…

Catholic Bishops’ Religious Liberty Fight Enables Anti-Jewish Discrimination (Updated)

By Patricia Miller

…“shares the parents’ religious beliefs and moral convictions.” To date, a number of Catholic Charity adoption agencies, including those in Illinois, Boston, San Francisco, and most recently Buffalo, New York, have shut down rather than offer adoption services to same-sex couples. They’ve then turned around and accused civil authorities of putting them out of business because of anti-Catholic animus. Catholic Social Services (CSS) of Philadelphia…

Gay, Black, Republican, Baptist Preacher, Rev. Peter Gomes, 1942-2011

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…oaring laughter and applause. Gomes was used to pissing people off. As the Boston Globe notes: “He was the first black minister of Memorial Church and the only gay, black, Republican, Baptist preacher most people would ever meet.” If that’s not a mixture sure to piss people off, I’m not sure what is. Dr. Gomes left us this week at the tender age of 68. He has left behind an amazing array of written and spoken words for us to continue to enjoy, eve…

Bishops Elect Moderate to Lead Pro-Life Committee

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

Cardinal Sean O’Malley of Boston has been elected as the chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops Committee on Pro-Life Activities, beating out Archbishop Allen Vigneron of Detroit. You may remember that Cardinal O’Malley—who regularly attends the national March for Life and has called it a “tragedy” any time abortion restrictions are lifted—nevertheless drew criticism in 2009 from some in the anti-abortion movement for not only permit…