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Vatican’s New Media Evangelizing Strategy Can’t Save it from All The Bad News

By Anthea Butler

…s to kids on the web. No matter how accessible Pope Benedict is on his Web site pope2you.net, the fact remains: the current news cycle that runs from the Vatican runs more like the Borgias than any 21st-century church. Trips, councils on evangelization, beatifications, or slick websites aren’t going to bring disillusioned Catholics back to the increasingly vacant pews of Catholic churches in Europe and America. Perhaps the Pope should get together…

Touchdown Jesus Burns to the Ground

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…f Jesus’ demise brought the usual comments from posters at the Yahoo! News site — many speculating that the destruction was caused because of how the United States has turned her back on Jesus and doesn’t deserve to have his huge likeness around anymore — so he’s outta here. Others, like commenter “Jenna,” who lives in Touchdown Jesus’ neighborhood, had a different take on the demise of the $250,000 structure: ”… they could have spent that money o…

Evangelicals ‘Crossing the Tiber’ to Catholicism

By Jonathan D. Fitzgerald

…ve already been received into the Catholic Church,” according to their Web site. Other featured converts include singer-songwriter John Michael Talbot and Patrick Madrid, editor of the Surprised by Truth books, which showcase conversion stories. Would Saint Augustine Go to a Southern Baptist Church in Houston? McKnight first identified these converts eight years ago, and the trend has continued to grow in the intervening years. It shows up in a va…

Conservative Media Firm Pushes Claim That Gaza Withdrawal Caused BP Disaster

By Sarah Posner

…ernan runs a ministry, Defend and Proclaim the Faith and, according to the site’s biography, is a “pro-life leader” in central Pennsylvania, where he lives. He’s also the founder of International Cops for Christ because “[t]he Bible refers to the police as God’s ministers and God has granted awesome power to the police for the subduing of evil. This power includes arresting people and suspending their liberty, putting people in jail, starting civi…

Satire is Religion

By Austin Dacey

…of Muhammad, upon conquering Mecca he went to the Kaaba to purge the holy site of pagan relics and religious icons—with the exception of representations of Mary and Jesus, which he ordered to be preserved. From the outside, it is easy to miss the fact that having one’s saints satirized is a way of being baptized into the American “civil religion.” A community is not a full member of this society until its sacred cows have been slaughtered publicl…

Hoax Underscores Urgency for LGBT People in Uganda

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…pology for perpetuating the false story: To say that knowing that this web site helped to propagate that hoax is humiliating would be an understatement. We’ve worked hard at BTB in establishing our credibility, and I believe that a key component of that is also to maintain an atmosphere of transparency and accountability when we get it wrong. The more profound damage, Burroway fears, however, is that this hoax will damage the fight for LGBT rights…

In Crisis, Catholic Church Plays ‘The Jew’

By Benjamin Weiner

…read a statement that appeared a couple of days later on the Catholic Web site Pontifex, deploying the Jewish people on the battlefield of this scandal in the manner to which we are more accustomed. Giacomo Babini, emeritus bishop of Grosseto, is alleged to have suggested that the “powerful and refined” nature of the assault on the Pope’s character indicated it was part of a concerted “Zionist attack.” For those unclear that “Zionist” in some min…

New Ex-Offender Program Puts Church Ahead Of State

By Mark Bergen

…n email, “could raise serious Constitutional problems.” Content on its Web site, he continued, suggests “Out4Life is designed to funnel ex-prisoners to churches for reentry programming. If state funds are being used to support this effort, state money could be unconstitutionally supporting religious indoctrination.” There is not, Out4Life staff claim, a direct line connecting prisoners from PFM programs inside prison to those outside. Their progra…

Kung Fu Nuns, The Beatles, & Amish Healthcare: The Week In Religion… Poetically

By Christopher Marchsteiner

…ruction of a new ER out of fears that it would be built on top of a burial site for Jews. Tensions between religion and government are high, especially after archeologists determined that the bones were not even Jewish. A court ruled that a Catholic father is allowed to take his daughter to Mass after the mother issued a restraining order that prevented him from exposing the child to any religion other than Judaism. The recently passed health care…

The Return of Christian Terrorism

By Mark Juergensmeyer

…linics on the Eastern seaboard. Bray published a newsletter and then a Web site for his Christian anti-abortion movement, and published a book theologically justifying violence against abortion service providers, A Time to Kill. He is also alleged to be the author of the Army of God manual that provides details on how to conduct terrorist acts against abortion-related clinics. Recently Bray has publicly defended Paul Roeder, the Wichita assassin,…