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Aussie Priest is Excommunicated for Support of Women’s Ordination

By Marian Ronan

…s, I was reminded of a comment my husband used to make about the police in Philadelphia back when we lived there. Some poor kid would have shoplifted something and BAM! There’d be three police cars surrounding him. “These boys don’t play,” my hubby would say. Neither do popes and cardinals, no matter how benign they seem. Other Catholic feminists—Mary Hunt in these pages—expressed wariness of the new pope even before Reynolds’s excommunication. It…

Communication v. Excommunication: Catholic Women and the Church

By Mary E. Hunt

…while Bishop Bevilaqua was promoted to the more prestigious Archdiocese of Philadelphia where he was made cardinal three years later. Wuerl has since been rewarded as the head of the Archdiocese of Washington, D.C. (often a place that has a cardinal). He leaves out mention of his Seattle stint on his official biography. I would too. Moving against progressive Catholic women is apparently a stepping stone to higher privilege in the Roman Catholic C…

Martyrdom, Racist Violence, and the Role of Art: Kara Walker’s Religious Turn

By Spencer Dew

…E community (largely destroyed in 1985 with a militarized police action in Philadelphia that destroyed 65 homes). Kara Walker’s work has always spoken the language of urgency—a visceral, force coupled with conceptual strands that the viewer must slowly unravel and worry through long after seeing the piece itself. Establishing herself as a major figure in contemporary art in the mid-1990s with room-spanning installations of cut-paper silhouette fri…

African Religious leaders complain about Obama advocacy for LGBT rights; Ultra-Orthodox Man Stabs Jerusalem Pride Parade Marchers, Again; Struggles over sexuality in Islam, Catholic, Orthodox, Anglican Churches; Global LGBT recap

By Peter Montgomery

…eard, and the pope expected to address a crowd of more than one million in Philadelphia to close a landmark Catholic event on family life called the World Meeting of Families, the stage for a reckoning is set. Nicole Santamaría from El Salvador, an intersex woman, born with the physical characteristics of both genders, plans to attend the World Meeting with her mother. She called on the pope to broaden his welcome beyond traditional families. “To…

A Biblical Perspective That Recognizes Black Women

By Nyasha Junior

…I love it! The beautiful cover art is “Afro Girl Aqua.” It was painted by Philadelphia artist Kim Wilson of Topaz and Opal. I purchased the painting from Wilson, and when my editor asked me for cover art ideas, I asked if we could secure the rights to use the painting for the cover. Is there a book out there you wish you had written? Which one? Why? I love anything by Octavia Butler. Her work is incredibly powerful and wildly creative. One of my…

U.S. Bishops (Who Lit Religious Liberty Fuse) Urge Civility

By Patricia Miller

…c Committee on Religious Liberty spearheaded the “Fortnight for Freedom”), Philadelphia Archbishop Charles Chaput (one of the most outspoken church critics of same-sex marriage), and two of their staunchest Evangelical allies, Albert Mohler, Jr., of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, and Russell Moore, president of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention, released a statement lamenting the “acrimony a…

Cues for Throwing Up

By Sarah Posner

…Archbishop Charles Chaput, then Archbishop of Denver and now Archbishop of Philadelphia, returned to Houston and gave his own speech at Houston Baptist University. There, Chaput accused Kennedy of giving a speech that “profoundly undermined the place not just of Catholics, but of all religious believers, in America’s public life and political conversation. Today, half a century later, we’re paying for the damage.” Today, Santorum’s (and Chaput’s)…

Week in Religion: Satan Sandwich, Captain Israel v. Foreskin Man, Christian Missile Launchers

By Michael J. Altman

…before every game. Do you speak the Christian lingo? The Air Force has suspended an ethics briefing for missile launch commanders that relied heavily on Christian doctrines. The Philadelphia Museum of Art will exhibit a set of Rembrandt’s paintings of Jesus that have hitherto never been displayed together….

Sacrificing Children on the Altar of Religious Freedom: A Flood of Mask and Vaccine Lawsuits are Warping ‘Religious Freedom’

By Andrew L. Seidel

…f others to the rights of conservative Christians. In the recent Fulton v. Philadelphia case, the court subjugated the right of foster children to live in a loving home, and the right of LGBTQ foster parents to provide that loving home, to the bigotry of the Catholic Church. In case after case, the court has struck down public health measures in the name of religious freedom. Stacked against this new weaponized religious freedom are the Covid-ridd…

Why Real Political Power Will Not Come From a Revived Religious Left

By Nicholas Laccetti

…r and co-chair of the new Poor People’s Campaign, often tells the story of Philadelphia’s Tent City in the mid-1990s. Rev. Theoharis puts it this way in the introduction to her recent book, Always with Us? What Jesus Really Said about the Poor: Tent City became a community and church much like the first Christian communities. There, homeless families of various races lived together, sharing donated toys, clothing, food, and toiletries. One disable…