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Greek Abbot Arrested for Role in Financial Scandal

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…poverty of the Greek people under their new program of enforced austerity and the immeasurable wealth of the Orthodox Church. The same contrast will be drawn out in coming months in Rome, and I daresay in the U.S. as well. The very public arrest of Catholic priests in Belgium or the U.S. for sexual crimes is one thing; the revelation of the Greek (or Roman) Church’s complicity in white-collar theft, pork-barrel politicking and a form of nepotism…

It’s the Year of the Protester: Would Santa Occupy? How About Mother Teresa?

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…nners in the church smelled. (Let’s remember that this was twelfth-century Belgium. That will be important later.) Then she spent the next several decades telling people about her visions of heaven, hell, and purgatory; renouncing her possessions; living as a beggar; going into near-freezing water on purpose; going into furnaces on purpose; and going into thorny bushes on purpose. She lived to the ripe old age of 74. It briefly occurred to me that…

A Shining City: The Occupy Movement and the American Soul

By Elizabeth Drescher

…brew, Budweiser—that, too, a faded American icon, sold off in 2008 to the Belgium-based multinational, InBev. No, of course, these were not the protesters who have begun to appear in more and more American cities, but keepers of the once-stable base of a certain version of the fabled American Dream: wedding parties. These were queuing up for photos on raised pedestals in the fountains in Kiener Plaza, the park in the shadow of the Arch. Different…

Case Against Church-State Separation From Unlikely Source

By Peter Laarman

…ges that in plumping for faith-based initiatives, he is also recycling and promoting ideas from his 2009 book, God’s Economy, which embraced the theory of the Bush initiative. Holes in the History, Perils in the Prescription I’m very glad that Daly uncovers the historical currents informing both Catholic social thought and US labor history. I join him in wishing that more people knew about the work of moral theologian John Ryan, for example, and I…

Vatican: Gay Rights Opponents are Real Victims

By Joseph M. Palacios

…ex couples has been ratified in the Catholic countries of Spain, Portugal, Belgium, Argentina, and Mexico. Acceptance of LGBT persons is not just an American phenomenon, it’s a broadly international one with a strong Catholic character. Of course, is precisely these trends that are most disturbing to the Vatican, especially as younger Catholics around the world are even more accepting of homosexuality and the legitimacy of sexual orientation and g…

Crisis in Philly: Trial Date Nears for Priests Indicted in Sex Abuse Scandal

By Anthea Butler

…pages about the Catholic Church and the sex scandal unfolding in Germany, Belgium, and other European countries. At the time, I surmised that the story would end much like it has here in the U.S., with rules, regulations and recriminations—but with abuses still occurring. What I didn’t anticipate was that the story would unfold steps away from my home and office in 2011. Philadelphia’s Avenging Altar Boy The Archdiocese of Philadelphia and Phila…

Israel’s Immigration Debate: “Where is the Jewish Spirit?”

By Mati Wagner

…ly 30% of the population (inside the Green Line) is not Jewish, similar to Belgium with a 30% Walloon and a 60% Flemish population or pre-1993 Czechoslovakia (54% Czech and 31% Slovak). Israel’s very raison d’etre is to maintain its Jewish exclusivity. David Ben-Gurion, the Jewish state’s first prime minister expressed this principle during a discussion in the Knesset on the 1950 Law of Return, which ensures automatic Israeli citizenship to any Je…

Postcard from the Vatican

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…rom the Catholic hierarchy in various aggrieved countries—from Germany and Belgium, to England and Wales (but not Ireland), to the US and Australia—has been positive. Greater clarity in the relevant Norms and greater transparency in the evaluative procedures are thought to be the first and most important steps toward establishing a more meaningful sense that this Papacy understands the gravity of the crimes over which it stands in judgment. And th…

Netherlands’ “War on Xmas” is “War on ‘Black Pete’”

By Joseph Laycock

…named Zwarte Piet or “Black Pete.” For decades, people in the Netherlands, Belgium, and Sweden have celebrated the start of the holiday season by dressing as Black Pete—complete with black face paint, red lipstick, and frizzy wigs—to distribute candy and serve the same function that Christmas elves do in America. It’s only since about 2011 that some have protested the practice as racist. This year 60 people were arrested for disruptive protesting—…

Marriage equality comes to Slovenia, continues to spread in Mexico; Civil Union legislation approved in Sicily, debated in Peru; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…laces where EuroPride events are planned. One application is for an event “promoting family values.” The municipality has turned to the Ministry of Justice for advice on how to proceed. MOZAIKA, the group planning EuroPride, is asking people to contact the prime minister’s office an urge them not to allow the disruption of the event. Peru: Civil Union bill gets debate Hundreds of Peruvians rallied on Monday night on the eve of legislative debate o…