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Contraception Isn’t Meat

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…tal systems are an essential part of healthcare. They receive significant amounts of reimbursement money from the government, they have merged with non-Catholic systems, and they participate in a wider nonsectarian system wherein insurance companies negotiate with them and ambulance companies work with them and medical students do residencies in their hospitals and so forth. So if one had to bring Boudway’s original analogy up to code, one would h…

I Volunteer to Root Out Christian Extremism

By Peter Laarman

…f this number, roughly 8,000 congregations claim upwards of 1,000 members; most are smaller, indeed most are much smaller. My concept is this: I think we can create a Christian Honor Corps (CHC) of perhaps 10,000 persons. Persons like myself who take our responsibility to monitor Christian extremist thought seriously and who are willing to work hand-in-glove with you and with other law enforcement personnel to spy upon and help quash the bad guys…

Sex Abuse in the Catholic Church: When Adults are Victims

By Kathryn Joyce

…ain, and distressed to find herself dependent on her parents, Birge, whose mother grew up in a number of Latin American countries, joined a charismatic Hispanic church group for young adults held at Catholic churches around Denver. The group, Christo Y Yo, drew as many as 500 participants across the Archdiocese and around 100 in Birge’s St. Cajetan Parish alone. It was run by a Mexican lay minister named Juan Carlos Hernandez: a dynamic and pious…

Pornography’s Dirty Little Secret: What We Say vs. What We Do

By Shira Tarrant

…stitute found that 71 percent of Americans think watching pornography is immoral. Yet moral objection to porn doesn’t stop people from watching. Given the high rate of online porn use documented in highly religious, conservative states, moral pressure may mean that people are watching porn yet feeling guilty for doing so. With easy online porn access, and concerns about its impact on sexuality and interpersonal relations, the issue has taken cente…

Why Do Evangelicals And Dems Want Immigration Reform?

By Daniel Schultz

…advocated for the “broader social agenda” among evangelicals, about which more in a moment. As for why the Obama administration and more-or-less conservative evangelical leaders might find common ground on the immigration issue, it’s simple math. Demographics explain why Democrats want immigration reform: Hispanics will drive minority growth above all. Their numbers will triple to 133 million by 2050 from 47 million today, while the number of non…

Broken Courts, Big Lies and Genocide Rehearsal: A Review of 2022—And What We Can Expect From 2023

By Annika Brockschmidt

…e rights of the people sitting around the kitchen table? It was one of the more uplifting moments of the year, one that the polls had foreseen quite accurately (even if no one believed them) since the events of the summer. Democrats did lose the House of Representatives, but only just barely—and they managed to hold the Senate in a repeat of the Georgia run-off. Some small cracks in the GOP’s resolve regarding the Big Lie have become noticeable: p…

Meeting on the Bridge: Fr. James Martin’s Ministry to LGBT Catholics Becomes a Book

By Kaya Oakes

…ts a great many of them. That was kind of shocking to me, frankly. Because more and more people are out, that means more and more family members and friends are affected. It’s not that there are more LGBT Catholics, but that they are more well-known, which means this is a bigger issue for more people. It’s a bigger issue for the church than what the percentage of LGBT Catholics might indicate. Twenty years ago, that grandmother might have turned u…

C Street Scandal, the Media, the Future of the Family: An Interview with Jeff Sharlet

By Bill Berkowitz

…had a much bigger impact than NBC Nightly News; Real Time With Bill Maher moved more books and provoked more former members of the Family to get in touch with me than The Daily Show. Chris Matthews used the last seconds before going live to lean across the desk to tell me, “I don’t know if I get this. I don’t know if want to!” And he didn’t, rattling on about how he used to like to stay at the YMCA. But what the hell, it got the books into more h…

By the Way: Religious Right Losing its Grip?

By Randall Balmer

…r evangelicals understand that, as do a growing number of Roman Catholics. The reflexive position that it is impossible to be both an evangelical and a Democrat or a Catholic and a Democrat no longer obtains. Something’s happening here….

Does Multiverse Theory Bring Theology Into Science?

By Andrew Aghapour

…it is and get on with learning to master the what. That having been said, more and more physicists are signing on to one or another version of the multiverse hypothesis. So it may well be “having its day,” but insofar as it is, science itself is undergoing a radical reconfiguration at its own limits, which open so dramatically onto things like metaphysics and mythology. Let me push you on that last point. How is science “reconfiguring” itself in…