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The Ryan Report on Child Abuse in Ireland

By Eugene C. Bianchi

…Controversy over releasing names of perpetrators slowed its progress. The latest exposé of child abuse in Ireland landed like a huge aftershock following the American quake felt in Boston a few years ago. In the US, court settlements for victims cost billions and have forced bankruptcy on dioceses and religious orders. Similar seismic activity threatens in the Los Angeles area where Cardinal Mahony and his lawyers are fighting lawsuits. Thomas P….

New Yorker on Banking Corruption: Suck it Up and Stop Whining

By Peter Laarman

…rns wayward bankers, so best not to go there. Rage is not a policy. 3. The latest Geithner deal to subsidize the hedge funds that purchase bad bank assets is deeply flawed—it will probably deliver staggering bonanzas to the fund managers and may not work at all—but going this route is politically easier than taking a rational approach (short-term bank nationalization). So we should just shut up about it and let Obama spend his political capital on…

Amway, Religious Right Pyramid Scheme, Returns to the Motherland

By Bill Berkowitz

…M. Hutchens of the Christian Zionist “Jerusalem Connection,” who has been promoting the piece. Why? Bartholomew: “I can see why Freund would enthuse over this, but it’s less clear why a conservative evangelical like Hutchens would want to promote the idea of 500,000 to 1 million Portuguese and Spaniards embracing a religion other than Christianity. Such are the mysteries of Christian Zionism.” Coral Ridge Ministries Produces Is Jesus God?: Since…

Sing the Glory of the Smoke: The Spiritual History of Jazz

By Andrew Aghapour

…provised, is unpredictable and ephemeral. As Jason Bivins documents in his latest book, Spirits Rejoice!: Jazz and American Religion, jazz musicians share with religion scholars certain anti-essentialist leanings. Spirits Rejoice!: Jazz and American Religion Jason C. Bivins Oxford University Press (May 1, 2015) The similarities run deeper. Jazz musicians often describe their music as “sacred,” “spiritual,” and conducive of self-realization or soci…

Don’t Sleep on Trump’s CPAC Speech Calling For ‘The Final Battle’: This was Southern Strategy as Apocalyptic Promise

By Thomas Lecaque

…calyptic totem, and he either conveniently ignores it or makes jokes. This latest speech is only a joke in the sense of a DC comic—The Killing Joke maybe. The former president opened his speech—after a long list of far-right celebrity shout outs—by framing the 2024 election as a battle: “the greatest in our history, most important battle in our lives is taking place right now as we speak. For seven years, you and I have been engaged in an epic str…

US Catholic Bishops Elect a Culture Warrior

By Marian Ronan

…Catholic Worker, because priests had authored three of the articles in the latest issue—clearly more than she was looking for. This brings us to the election of Archbishop Dolan as president of the USCCB. As previously noted, the archbishop is a cordial and well-spoken man, so I’m sure he was gracious to his defeated opponent, Bishop Gerald Kicanas of Tucson. But his election is not a good sign. As the New York Times mentions, this is the first ti…

Republican Jewish Coalition Calls Obama Out for “Donors” Mention

By Evan Derkacz

…to convince American Jews that Democrats are harmful to Israel. The RJC’s latest release—”What Exactly Did President Obama Mean By That?”—takes such an aggrieved posture that you’d think the president had referred to “powerful banking interests” or, while praising the caterers for the delicious matzoh, casually referenced the disappearance of Christian children. Nope: According to today’s New York Times, at the Democratic Senate retreat yesterday…

Reason for Cautious Optimism in the Mauna Kea Telescope Standoff

By Jean Rosenfeld

…and languages that require expert decoding while the clock is ticking. The latest religious standoff occurred July 21, 2019 at the foot of Mauna Kea, a mountain held sacred by Hawaiian sovereigntists on the island of Hawaii. The mountain’s protectors (kia’i) blocked the road to the construction site of the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT). Their legal suits against the project had finally ended and the court had allowed construction to proceed. The go…

Massacre in Mindanao: The Irresistible Urge to Blame Religion

By Bruce B. Lawrence

…, etc.) Casting the Massacre in Religious Terms When I first heard of this latest, horrific incident, I wrote to several of my contacts in Mindanao whose collective sense was one of despair about the outcome. It won’t be long, I was told, before religious colors will be attached to the Maguidanao massacre. It will come in three forms. First, recent histories remind us that the Christian side of Mindanao’s sizable South Cotabato Province was the br…

Gays Attacked in Uganda After Mag Publishes Info

By Jody May-Chang

…ishers simply wait for the temporary order to expire. Reading parts of the latest round of outings Kiyimba shouts, “They do not understand what they are doing! They are ruining the lives of these young people. These are just kids, nineteen or twenty years.” In Uganda, Kiyimba says, “everybody knows everybody for four square miles.” When someone’s name appears in the paper, “life is over.” While he was in the U.S., three high school boys in Kiyimba…