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2021 National Prayer Breakfast: A Kinder Gentler Christian Capitalism

By Becky Garrison

…by “introducing powerful men to Jesus, the Family has managed to effect a number of behind-the-scenes acts of diplomacy.” For example, when the National Prayer Breakfast is held in person, this event allows individuals access to the president without going through the usual vetting process by the State Department. As anticipated, secular groups continue to express concern over the religious rhetoric used during this year’s NPB with repeated calls…

The Myth of the ‘Lone Wolf’ Terrorist Continues with New Zealand Attack

By Mark Juergensmeyer

…Kouachi. Before that, there was the 2013 Tsarnaev brothers’ attack on the Boston Marathon; the August 2012 attack on the Milwaukee Sikh Gurdwara by Wade Michael Page; the 2011 deadly assault on a Norwegian youth camp by Christian extremist Anders Breivik; the 2010 Times Square bombing attempt by Faisal Shahzad; and even earlier, the 1996 Atlanta Olympic park by Eric Robert Rudolph, and the 1995 Oklahoma City Federal Building bombing by Timothy Mc…

Make Way for Liberal Pro-Lifers

By Patricia Miller

…tholic hierarchy and the Republican Party. O’Malley told John Allen of the Boston Globe that serious Catholics could no longer “turn a blind eye to the human suffering and the tragedies that are taking place” regarding the treacherous border crossing and the mass deportation of undocumented migrants. He said serious Catholics need to support immigration reform. O’Malley isn’t the first Catholic prelate to suggest that issues beyond abortion are “p…

What Masterpiece Cakeshop Oral Arguments Suggest About the Future of LGBT Discrimination

By Patrick Hornbeck

…ociety is clearly continuing to wrestle with an issue on which substantial numbers of Americans continue to differ, usually for religious reasons. Masterpiece Cakeshop gets at a number of disputed questions, but regardless of which way the justices rule, others will likely go unanswered. Beginning to thread this needle will likely be the task of Justice Kennedy, who did not tip his hand in today’s arguments about how he intends to reconcile his la…

The End of Roe and School Prayer: America is Not Ready to Be a Christian Nation

By Andrew L. Seidel

…ristian nation,” has a constitutional right to fly the Christian flag over Boston City Hall. On Jan. 6, 2021, Christian Nationalists proudly flew this flag at their rallies and marches, and insurrectionists even paraded the flag on the floor of the U.S. Senate after they breached the Capitol. It marked their territory on January 6th and will do the same flying over the seat of government in one of our oldest cities. This term’s likely decisions, a…

Is Football a Pro-Life Sport?

By Marian Ronan

…enty-three top US Catholic colleges and universities field football teams: Boston College, the Catholic University of America, Fordham, Georgetown, Holy Cross, Marquette, the University of Dayton, the University of Notre Dame, Villanova, and Xavier in Cincinnati. (Anna Maria College in Massachusetts, recently protected from Mrs. Kennedy, also has a team.) In 2009, Notre Dame football made more than $15 million from its television contract, and ret…

Old White Dudes Tell the Democrats to Forget about Abortion

By Patricia Miller

Writing in the New York Times, Thomas Groome, a professor of theology at Boston College, has a super original, never-before articulated idea about how the Democrats can “reclaim their Catholic base.” The Democrats need to “stop being the party of abortion” to win back the Catholic voters that abandoned the party and sealed Hillary Clinton’s fate, which by my count is approximately installment #1,000 in the apparently never-ending series “White Du…

Inventing “Jihad”

By Asma Afsaruddin

…news reader, to account for the violence he and his brother carried out in Boston. After all, are not religious male Muslims supposed to carry out the military jihad against non-Muslims as an essential requirement of their faith? Such popular perceptions of jihad are often predicated on the assumptions that a) jihad is relentless, bloody warfare to be waged by Muslims (en masse) against non-Muslims (en masse) until Islam occupies the whole world o…

What is Interfaith Cooperation For?

By Eboo Patel

…Huffington Post article on the urgency of interfaith cooperation after the Boston bombings. As religious diversity continues to grow both in demographic fact and in salience in our public discourse, and as interfaith efforts expand, it is more important than ever to engage in a thoughtful exchange about the purpose of interfaith programs. I wish to use this space to advance my view of what interfaith cooperation is for. The ideas I present below h…

Satanic “Black Mass” at Harvard Excites Conservatives

By Joseph Laycock

…dent Drew G. Faust beseeching him to halt the event and the Archdiocese of Boston released a statement condemning it. The controversy demonstrates the cycle of appropriation that often occurs between religious authorities longing for a direct encounter with extraordinary evil and dissenters who perform the script of evil. In an e-mail, Greaves described the black mass as a “non-story,” insisting that it’s meant as a performance of his religious cu…