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#TeachAcceptance and the Fight for the Soul of SF’s Catholic Schools

By Patricia Miller

…s” is no longer being considered. Support SF Teachers said in a statement that while it is true that Cordileone is no longer using the word “minister,” he has not “backed off his effort to reclassify teachers and other staff as ministers. […] The Archbishop is still proposing that the teachers and other staff are ‘called to advance this religious mission’ and that their work is a ‘ministry.’ This is not a meaningful change.” According to Ted Allen…

UPDATE: An Abrupt End to Quebec Separatist Plan to Ban “Ostentatious Signs” of Religion

By Jeremy Stolow

…rance.” The proposed Bill thus proscribed the wearing of religious signs that are “easily visible” and that draw attention to themselves (ayant un caractère demonstratif). The language adopted here—beginning with very notion of signes ostentatoires—was embedded in a larger conversation concerning the place of religion in modern nation-states, as emphasized by none other than then-Premiere Pauline Marois, when, during one media scrum, she defende…

Russian Multimillionaire Makes Peace with Anti-Christ Milk

By Joseph Laycock

…authorities, barricading themselves within a bunker because they believed that barcodes on food packaging are Satanic. In a statement, Christian dairy tycoon Boyko-Veliky explained the crosses: Russian Milk is forced to place bar codes on its packaging, as without this, we will only be able to sell our goods at farms, not in stores. . . . By placing the cross on the bar code, we want to demonstrate our stance: We are with our Lord, Jesus Christ, a…

Capitalism and the Anti-Modern Pope

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…ns when the openly gay Anglican bishop, Gene Robinson, was confirmed). The code word for most of that uproar is “anti-Modern.” So the irony of Catholic anti-Modernism multiplies, morphs, turns back on itself. The logic of Catholic anti-Modernism, as it were, is capitalist to the core. The Vatican looks at the world map and analyzes new growth markets. When one source of material resources dries up, the empire marches determinedly on. From this per…

Conservative Points in Pope’s Speech Include Liberal “Chasers”

By Patricia Miller

…icitly challenged the long-standing contention of the US Catholic bishops that abortion was the issue that “really” mattered, threatening to rupture the alliance between the Catholic hierachy and the political right. What was most striking about Francis’ addresses both Wednesday and Thursday was how issues that were once front and center when any member of the Catholic hierarchy spoke, are now talked about in coded language. For the average Americ…

Margaret Cho: God Bless You, Fing Fers

By Lisa Webster

…And there are those “anonymous Christians,” or involuntary Christians…was that Rahner who devised that category? Does anyone outside of seminary or grad school read mid-century German Catholic theologians? We all might as well, if we’re going to debate terms. It might open up some possibilities. Anyway, Margaret Cho is a Christian. And she has delivered a gorgeous, eloquent rant to that effect—“I’m a Christian, you F***ers.” It is too profane to r…

Liberal Intolerance, Or, an Occasion for Public Theology

By Byron Williams

…biblical orthodoxy. Like loving our neighbor, tolerance is a utopian goal that lies just beyond our reach—but one that we must vigorously pursue because it is foundational to the tradition we follow. Intolerance also blinds us to the fact that we need those who see the world differently lest we become endowed with the false notion that only our perspective is normative. Conformity does not inspire us to examine our assumptions. Tolerance should t…

The Quiet Part is Very Much Out Loud: Conservative Publication Calls For Embrace of Totalitarianism

By Annika Brockschmidt

…mselves as radicals, restorationists, and counterrevolutionaries. Indeed, that is what they are, whether they embrace those labels or not.” As a historical example to aspire to, he quite tellingly offers “the Pilgrims—those iron-willed and audacious Christians who refused to accept the terms set by the mainstream of their time and set out to build something entirely new.” That, in many cases, they tried to establish theocratic enclaves is nothing…

White Supremacy, Mental Illness, or Society: What’s to Blame for Religious Violence?

By Michael Schulson

…l illness, and social problems all do contribute to bloodshed, of course. What’s strange is that we make sense of violence in such monolithic terms, and often with so little evidence. But it’s worth dissecting the peculiar terms of the debate that emerges after these highly public, tragic spectacles. Doing so highlights the extraordinarily low standards that we often accept in the analysis of blame. Getting to know everything you don’t know Which…

Anti-Gay Forces On Offense in Europe; ‘African Islam’ Challenged by Extremists; Irish Marriage Foes & ‘Sounds of Sodomy’; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…the decrease in vocations. David Gibson at Religion News Service reports that Burke also said that “priests ‘who were feminized and confused about their own sexual identity’ were the ones who molested children.” Also in the news this week was Miami Archbishop Thomas Wenski, who sent a memo to all employees of the diocese reiterating that they could be fired if they express support for gay marriage on social media. New Ways Ministry’s Bob Shine ca…