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Colorado Springs Massacre Captures the Christian Nationalist ‘Monster In The Mirror’

By Lucas Kwong

…isease-bearing foreigner channels White British paranoia about the growing numbers of Eastern European Jews flocking to Britain’s shores from the 1870s onward. In the episode, I point out that Dracula—and vampires by extension—became the quintessential anti-Christian villain, not least because of how they echo conspiracy theories, circulating almost a decade before the publication of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, that powerful Jewish elites…

Rising to Heaven in a Secular Rapture: Trump’s Golden Promises

By Eric C. Miller

…think they needed government because the churches often did offer a great number of services. They were tithed, members gave ten percent of their income to sustaining the church, and whatever problem they had, they could take it to the church. It was very central to their lives. At the same time, they sensed that they were Christians in an America that was becoming increasingly non-Christian, so I often heard them say things like, “You can’t say…

RNC Takes America to Church, Mormon Style, as Rank-and-File LDS Step Up

By Joanna Brooks

…rved alongside Romney during his tenure as a bishop (or lay pastor) of his Boston area congregation. Bennett explained in plain language Romney’s responsibilities of an LDS bishop—not theology, not ritual, but rather practical service that ranged from counseling physically, economically, and spiritually distressed parishioners to “shoveling snow for the elderly” and folding chairs after church meetings. Next came Ted and Pat Oparowski, Mormons fro…

Cardinal Dolan Softens Pope’s Anti-Capitalism Rhetoric

By Patricia Miller

…war issues of abortion and same-sex marriage.” Francis’ closest advisor is Boston Cardinal Sean O’Malley, “a Franciscan in robes and sandals who speaks fluent Spanish and champions the poor.” But like any political faction temporarily out of power, the right wing of the bishops conference continues to advocate for its constituents, specifically the pro-business, anti-gay and –reproductive rights interest of the Republican Party. Dolan penned an op…

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…

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…