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Sterilization Denial for Woman with Brain Tumor Highlights Religious Liberty Conflict

By Patricia Miller

…ed was that someone from the archdiocese that encompasses this area was in contact with the hospital administration and, basically, said, ‘I think we have a problem, and this needs to stop.’ And so, what was a very easy sort of step, being able to just go forward and do the tubal ligation at the time of the c-section, changed gradually. Catholic hospitals’ ability to refuse sterilizations is generally considered “ironclad” reports the Washington P…

Catholic Bishops’ Religious Liberty Fight Enables Anti-Jewish Discrimination (Updated)

By Patricia Miller

…o compromise our faith. Without religious liberty properly understood, all Americans suffer, including the neediest children seeking adoptive and foster families, as well as birth parents who wish to turn to faith-based providers in order to place their children with adoptive parents. The Catholic bishops also back the Orwellian-titled federal Child Welfare Provider Inclusion Act, which would allow adoption agencies to discriminate against same-se…

Greatest Hits of 2015: Religion Stories Our Readers Couldn’t Resist

By Ellie Faustino

…nders of the Paleo diet, coming to RD in early 2016.) #1 An Open Letter To American Muslims on Same-Sex Marriage Addressed to “Our Fellow American Muslims,” this letter was penned by Reza Aslan and Hasan Minhaj shortly after the US Supreme Court’s decision to legalize gay marriage in all fifty states. It’s a fine example of how RD’s writers continue to stay ahead of the curve in prompting these needed conversations, and is our top post of 2015. Yo…

Ten-Year-Old Hero Confronts Anti-Gay Bigotry

By Lauri Lebo

…it “child abuse.” From On Top: Bryan Fischer, director of analysis at the American Family Association, said Phillips was being exploited by adults for “dark political purposes.” “There is nothing about homosexual conduct to be proud of and much to be ashamed of,” he told Fox News. AFA President Tim Wildmon called Phillips’ inclusion a “form of child abuse.” “He’s obviously just parroting the nonsense he’s been told by manipulative adults,” Wildmo…

‘Catholic Feminist’ Isn’t an Oxymoron, and Other Tales From a Beleaguered Tradition

By Celia Wexler

…, now Catholics for Choice. But in these pages you’ll also meet an African-American convert and theologian who did some of the first research on Georgetown University’s slave-holding past, as well as a Latina sexual ethics professor who found that guiding her struggling students helped her come to terms with her own rape as a teenager. One of my subjects—now a gifted and prolific writer—spent her childhood with a mentally ill Catholic mother, cycl…

Elephant Orphans and Ecological Spiritualities: An Earth Day Reflection

By Jacob J. Erickson

…oment). That strict time is a kind of compromise—a minimal amount of human contact for the orphans so the orphanage can raise some necessary funds for their care. The human animals arrive, line up, pay their dues, at eleven the crowd is let in, and the waiting begins. And so we wait at the rope line. I recognize accents from the U.S. south, Denmark, the UK, Australia. Most are white, Western tourists. Some missionaries. A documentary film crew is…

Gay Marriage Measure Dies in Maryland

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…holic bishops in the state have also stepped up pressure on their flock to contact delegates in opposition to the measure. It seems the pressure has given some delegates reason enough to push the pause button and not make Maryland the sixth state to recognize marriage equality for its gay and lesbian citizens. It could be seen as a defeat, or a cowardly display by supporters—but Equality Maryland sees the move as an opportunity to do more educatio…

Time to Get Rid of “Gay Christians”

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…es writing with one particular hand. “Clinging” is like putting in colored contact lenses because the church and society only approves of one eye color, or coloring your hair because the church and society only approves of one hair color. “Clinging” is when you’re so afraid to live into the reality of how God has created you that you insist on putting on the mannerism of whatever way of living the church says is acceptable. So, you can “cling” to…

Do Dogs Have a Soul?: Taking “Creaturely” Life Seriously

By Beatrice Marovich

…the body of a living creature, however, Dayan illuminates how her physical contact with dogs tests the boundaries of her knowledge of spiritual things. In evoking the way that dogs teach her about the life of the spirit, Dayan attributes to dogs what many refuse to attribute to anyone but human beings: something like spirit, a mind, or a soul. (Dayan is not particularly dogmatic about terms.) Many assume that the exclusion of other animals from sp…

Do Animals Have Religion?

By S. Brent Rodriguez Plate

…hey seem to be reaching out across the specificities of species and making contact with us humans, even offering, Siebert intimates, something like “forgiveness” for killing off their ancestors. One finds, here as elsewhere, an underlying question: If animals like non-human primates (see the inspiring work of Jane Goodall and her followers) and cetaceans have shown themselves to have highly developed communication skills (possibly higher than homo…