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LGBT’s, Opponents Prep for Vatican Synod; UN Rights Council Adopts LGBT Resolution; Brazil’s Evangelicals Eye Presidency; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ca, Cuba, Czech Republic, Estonia, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Montenegro, Peru, Philippines, South Korea, South Africa, Macedonia, the U.K., Venezuela and Vietnam voted for the proposal. Algeria, Botswana, Cote d’Ivoire, Ethiopia, Gabon, Indonesia, Kenya, Kuwait, Maldives, Morocco, Pakistan, Russia, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates opposed it. Burkina Faso, China, Congo, India, Kazakhstan, Namibia and Sierra Leone abs…

The End of Roe Comes Courtesy of the Catholic Church — But From ‘The Dorothy Day Abortion Fund’ to ‘St. Vincent de Paul Vasectomy Clinic,’ Here Are Some Ideas for Catholics Looking to Make a Difference

By Mary E. Hunt

…es for RD). She currently teaches at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). Her very creative recent course on “How to Talk about Abortion” included a wide variety of perspectives and religious traditions. A university-based program to train future activist scholars in solid, well-founded arguments for justice developed in the crucible of theory and praxis will be a distinctly Catholic contribution. The Sister Donna Quinn Clinic Esco…

Catholics Are Facing a Very Real Emergency

By Mary E. Hunt

…rom Pennsylvania were sent to a treatment center for sexual abusers in New Mexico and later assigned to parishes, hospitals, and other institutions in that locale. The mind boggles at the extent of the abuse pandemic and bishops’ chess moves. To expect priests who have lived under the current way of doing things to have anything helpful to preach or teach about it is naïve. Without serious remedial courses on administration, public safety, duty to…

Wojnarowicz’s Ant-Covered Jesus: Blasphemy or Religious Art?

By S. Brent Rodriguez Plate

…icz edited is silent. Much of the imagery comes from Wojnarowicz’s time in Mexico in the 1980s, and shot on Super-8 film. Mexican Day of the Dead ceremonies mix with Aztec statues; scenes of professional wrestling merge with cockfights and bullfights; strong crucifixion imagery merges with street scenes from Mexican cities and towns; a man masturbates, mummified bodies appear to come alive, butchers carry cow carcasses, and through it all a sombre…

Why Did the Pope Choose Cuba?

By Michelle Gonzalez Maldonado

…peaking Latin America, where the majority of Catholics live. The choice of Mexico, with the second-largest Catholic population globally, seems obvious. What isn’t obvious is the decision to visit this island nation where Catholicism has struggled for the past 50 years. The answer is found in the verb tense. The Church in Cuba is no longer struggling. The papal trip is getting significant coverage by the media because it’s Cuba, as opposed to, say,…

Vatican Official Challenges Excommunication in Brazil

By Frances Kissling

…tin American context, where abortion is increasingly being decriminalized (Mexico City, Colombia in the last two years) physicians are carefully considering their options. In much of the developing world the situation faced by the young Brazilian child is not so rare. More than a half million women a year die in childbirth; some from botched abortions, but many because they could not get an abortion in high risk pregnancies. If doctors had some se…

“Professor” David Barton On Immigration: God Drew Our Borders

By Julie Ingersoll

…alysis of the “volume of prayers being offered” is overlaid with data on a number of social problems, to compare the “prayer years with the post prayer years.” The removal of prayer from public schools lowered the amount of prayer being offered to such a degree that its impact was felt, not just in the schools, but in every aspect of our national life! Never mind that just because two things seem to happen at the same time doesn’t make them causal…

The Best Books Media of 2008

By Jeff Sharlet

…journey, her nose in a book as she explored the mesas and riverbeds of New Mexico. The result is Standing in the Light: My Life as a Pantheist (Basic Books), a meditation on philosophy as a practical concern and the desert landscape as a spiritual calling. Apt Russell calls her religion Pantheism; I call it beautiful prose, filled with wisdom and populated by songbirds, heretics, wild pigs, philosopher-kings, and cottonwood trees. * * * In God’s P…

The Duggars To Headline Values Voters Summit

By Sarah Posner

…ve disseminated a translation of a UN representative at 2009 conference in Mexico, in which he allegedly claimed that the dissolution of the family has been a triumph of human rights over the patriarchy. I’ve not been able to find a record of his actual statement in any language, but the quote “the high rate of divorces and births outside marriage represents a triumph of human rights on the patriarchy” has been so widely disseminated in right wing…

Sacred&Profane: On Sexual Diversity, Perversity, and Ecstasy

By Gary Laderman

…gh, the powers associated with sex and the sacred can be envisioned in any number of ways, with or without God to set the terms and consequences of sexual relations. Ascetics who practice celibacy in Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, and other religious cultures, see the profane sexual body as a distraction, or obstacle, in the pursuit of spiritual fulfillment and empowerment. In the biblical story of David and Bathsheba, the adulterous sexual uni…