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Pope’s US Visit Provokes Intense Attention; New Vatican Book on Man-Woman Complementarity & New Int’l Report on Christian Role Models for LGBT Equality; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…erican values and with international laws Washington has taken the lead in promoting.” China: Filmmaker sues over censorship A documentarian is suing the Chinese government over censorship: Beijing-based film-maker Fan Popo has sued the agency responsible for television and internet content. Fan’s recent film, Mama Rainbow, documented Chinese mothers reconciling with their LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender) children. After thousands…

More Pressure on Obama to Fix His Religious Freedom Legacy

By Sarah Posner

…rcumvent legal prohibitions on discrimination in hiring. The letter is the latest push in a seven-year effort to persuade Obama to reverse this Bush-era policy, put in place during the zealous days of Bush’s Office of Faith-Based Initiatives. Last year 90 organizations joined the call for reversing the memo, renewing calls that had begun shortly after Obama took office in 2009, and that have proved to be an exercise in futility. But the issue has…

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….

Will the Giglio Affair Ruin the Democrats’ Outreach to Evangelicals?

By Sarah Posner

…On the latest Bloggingheads, I probed the evangelical reaction to Louie Giglio’s withdrawal from the inaugural activities with Christian ethicist and author David Gushee. In this segment, we discuss whether how the incident played out will undermine Democrats’ outreach to evangelicals, and if so, whether it will even matter: You can watch the whole thing here….

We Are All Nuns

By Mary E. Hunt

…e bishops, was just more than the delicate souls in Rome could stand. This latest mandate to reform the LCWR—indeed to put it out of business—has been in the works for years. In a process that began in 2008, the “doctrinal assessment,” as it is known, was aimed at investigating the “serious doctrinal problems which affect many in Consecrated Life.” In the face of wars in several parts of the world, ecological crises throughout the planet, and seve…

Are the Culture Wars Over? Look at the States

By Sarah Posner

Social psychologist Jonathan Haidt, in the latest Democracy: In 1943, Allied forces achieved a hard-fought victory in the North African campaign, captured Sicily, and began to fight their way up the Italian peninsula. Victories in places such as El-Alamein, Salerno, and Anzio gave America some confidence that the Allies would ultimately prevail in Europe. That confidence allowed the American public to shift more of its attention to the Pacific Th…

“Ex-Gay” Common Ground More of a Killing Ground

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

On the surface, Dan Gilgoff is right in his latest US News column to tout famous “ex-gay” Alan Chambers’ new interview with Focus on the Family’s CitizenLink as “striking.” But, when studied, the interview is simply more of the same from the “ex-gay” camp. What striking is that Chambers is not promoting so-called conversion therapy, which some religious conservatives claim can convert gays and lesbians to a straight sexual orientation. Rather, he…

Forget the Pope—We Need a New Caliph!

By Haroon Moghul

…rise in GDP in the last ten years, repaired relations with Israel, and the latest news suggests he’s even worked out a peace deal with the Kurds. If Erdogan can make Turkey a truly multicultural democracy, he’ll have resurrected the best characteristics of the Ottoman Empire, which last held the Caliphate, conveniently enough in modern Turkey. The Bad: Erdogan may actually already be the Caliph, which kind of ruins our brackets. Also, his peace wi…

Philadelphia Man Blames Bible for Stoning Death

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ent once and for all is a terribly naïve way to read a very complicated text. Instead, one must be trained to actually read the Bible in a responsible manner – preferably, as Hauerwas states, within a community dedicated to taking the Bible seriously. As Jennifer Wright Knust writes in her latest book, Unprotected Texts, “The only way the Bible can be regarded as straightforward and simple is if no one bothers to read it. The Bible was not a colle…

No More Mosques

By Daniel Schultz

…lash out and hurt somebody: Normally I would think we could ride out this latest wave of nativism and racism, but there are two factors that make it more dangerous than usual. The first, of course, is the economy which looks like it’s not going to recover smartly thus giving this impulse more oxygen than it might otherwise have. The second is that the right wing demagogues have an entire industry now devoted to creating and nurturing these wedge…