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Black Masses Continue to Titillate Conservative Catholics

By Joseph Laycock

…Civic Center on September 21 has generated unprecedented attention. Mayor Mick Cornett has already received 450 emails and phone calls opposing the event. Archbishop Paul Coakley has also condemned the event and called on Catholics to protest if it moves forward. Daniels, naturally, has expressed delight that his antics are finally provoking Church officials. This newfound energy has nothing to do with Daniels and everything to do with the events…

Gay Black Church: An Interview with Bishop Yvette Flunder

By Lisa Webster

…a period of time in conflict. Both because I knew I was a woman called to minister and ministry was not available. Was this before COJIC? And because I knew I was a same-gender loving person, and there was no room for me in either of those iterations of myself, either myself as gay or myself as a woman clergy. So I got involved in social work, particularly aid to the elderly. Which is still a very deep love for me. Everything from meals to legal…

Denying Communion to Prochoice Politicians

By Frances Kissling

…linics face when they meet a wall of rosary-praying, placard-carrying screaming anti-abortionists on one of the most stressful days of their lives. Duin wonders what current DC Archbishop Donald Wuerl will do. To date, Wuerl has refused to consider denying communion to legislators who disagree with church policy on abortion legislation. He prefers he says, to be in dialogue on the issue. And indeed, many pro-choice Senators, Representatives, Supre…

The Fragility of Our Reality: A Conversation with the Brain Behind PBS Miniseries on Neuroscience

By Michael Schulson

…You don’t have to be an anthropologist to realize that there’s not a blossoming of Islam in Springfield, Ohio, and there’s not a blossoming of Protestantism in Mecca. If there were one truth, you might expect that it would spread everywhere equally, but obviously it doesn’t. It’s all culturally conditioned. It is the case that neuroscience is squarely in the middle of the arena in all these discussions, but I can imagine that a hundred years ago,…

Duterte Cites Catholic Heritage in Opposing Marriage Equality, and More in the Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…e LGBT rights The Globe and Mail reported on March 18 about Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s determination to advance LGBT rights within the Commonwealth, which writer John Ibbitson calls ”one of the world’s most homophobic institutions.” Thirty-six of the Commonwealth’s 52 nations, representing two billion people, criminalize homosexual activity. Penalties range from jail time to execution. Even in countries where the laws aren’t strictly…

How Do We Break the Cycle of Religious Violence in South Asia?

By Sunita Viswanath

…have ignored this uneasy truth. Rather, many of these groups condemn anti-minority violence when it’s committed against Hindus, but then make excuses for anti-minority violence when it’s committed by Hindus. For an example of this, we can look at how one of the largest Hindu-American organizations, the Vishwa Hindu Parishad of America (VHPA), reacted to the violence in Bangladesh and Tripura. The VHPA is aligned closely with the political ideolog…

Friending Pope Benedict on Facebook?

By Kate Childs Graham

…n Paul II, Pope Benedict sent the following text message to Italian mobile phone users: “Let us go forth in the joy of the risen Lord and trusting in his permanent help.” JPII had been texting Italians with a “thought of the day” while he was still alive, so Benedict was simply carrying on this tradition. Pope Benedict has more recently used text messaging to communicate with attendees throughout this year’s World Youth Day in Sydney, Australia. H…

DeMint Uses Christian Reconstructionist Mailing List To Raise Money For Angle

By Julie Ingersoll

…minee to the U.S. Senate, Sharron Angle, from South Carolina Senator Jim DeMint’s political action committee, the Senate Conservatives Fund. Like Rand Paul in Kentucky, DeMint is bucking the Republican establishment by endorsing and raising money for candidates like Angle, whom he calls a “true conservative:” The Senate Conservatives Fund has endorsed Sharron Angle in Nevada because she’s a true conservative, not a rubber-stamp Republican. Being a…

The Latest to Botch Mormonism: Garry Wills

By Joanna Brooks

…on. Did that have anything to do with Mormon reluctance, in the past, to admit blacks to full equality? No. It really didn’t. And Mormon missions are two years, not one. And just about no one receives their mission call in time to enroll for language preparation classes during their freshman year of college. Missionaries do their language training at the LDS Church-run Missionary Training Center. This is, of course, not to accuse Wills of fabricat…

Trump, Islamophobia, and the Philly Pig’s Head Incident

By David Krueger

…week, several local groups sponsored an interfaith prayer vigil to stand in solidarity with Muslims and particularly Syrian refugees who have been unfairly associated with actions of an extremist minority. Despite the frightening rhetoric spewed by leading presidential candidates, Americans all across the nation are taking a stand against hate….