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First U.S. Visit of the Virgin Mary Confirmed in Wisconsin

By Lewis Wallace

…e United States, and immigrants from Catholic countries may be pushing the numbers up. As a symbol of Catholic catechesis, and as a representative of a seemingly humbler, more educated past, Adele may have a chance to make her mark. If she does, the Shrine of Our Lady of Good Help will need some visitor accommodations—like a parking lot. It might look to Lourdes to improve its website: on the official site for the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Lourdes,…

Prophet Muhammad

By Amina Wadud

…inspiration for some people to read. Plus, it’s been a challenge to fast, travel, and keep it up, but keeping it up has a goal a bit broader than Ramadan. I’m making preparations for pilgrimage to Makkah: hajj. Almost all of my feminist Muslim friends who have gone tell me I will not be satisfied with some of the arbitrary restrictions on women. Then they recount specific challenges they faced on the hajj and things they did to get around it. I’m…

Russian Attack on LGBTs at UN Rejected; Gay Cake Controversy Rages in N. Ireland; Bishop Calls for Marriage Referendum in Puerto Rico; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…gave same-sex couples the same benefits, such as pension entitlements and travel allowances, that heterosexual couples can expect, provided they were wed in a country where gay marriage is legal. Previously, same-sex couples could only enjoy benefits if they were citizens of a country where gay marriage is recognized, which is not the case in Russia…. Russia argued the previous rules were not discriminatory and said the changes violate the sovere…

Rand Paul: We Wouldn’t Need Laws If Everyone Were Christian

By Sarah Posner

…a new law requiring railroads ‘to furnish separate coaches or cars for the travel or transportation of the white and colored passengers.’” At TAPPED, Adam Serwer unpacked Paul’s feeble defense of his stance (claiming that he finds racism “abhorrent” and would have marched with King): The problem with the conservative appropriation of King based on a single sentiment made during the “I Have a Dream” speech — the only King speech they’ve bothered to…

Excuses, Excuses: The Polite Regrets of Governors Bailing on Perry’s Prayer Rally

By Sarah Posner

…rtin O’Malley, according to Texas on the Potomac: “Houston is ‘just not on travel schedule’ and he has a family wedding that day, his office said.” That’s why? Really? Not one governor has had the guts to say anything about the impropriety of a sitting governor hosting a sectarian prayer event where conversion to Christianity is prayed for, or that posits that America’s problems (as defined by them) can be fixed by 70,000 people getting on their k…

Moral Mondays: The Battle For Justice Cannot Be Waged Only in the Courts

By Kareem Crayton

…ong end of a canceled flight out of RDU Airport. I used the opportunity to travel into downtown Raleigh to observe one of the early Moral Monday rallies at the State Capitol. The gathering was ostensibly called to protest the legislature’s newly gerrymandered district map – among the most tortured in the nation. I expected to find a group of committed, passionate citizens (mostly people of color) voicing their disfavor about a process and outcome…

Putin’s Violent Holy War Rhetoric Made it to the Christian Right Fringe — And There’s Reason to Believe it’ll Go Mainstream

By Thomas Lecaque

…. Holy war rhetoric already abounds. Tying all of these together is, potentially, a potent message. And if Rick Wiles is a distinctly flawed, erratic, and fringe vessel for the message? We’ve seen time and again how fringe, violent, horrific ideas travel offline and into mainstream rhetoric, from QAnon to the fringe conspiracy theories around the attack on Paul Pelosi. Russian holy war rhetoric is fringe, erratic, and vile, but it fits just too pe…

When I Have Fears The Middle East May Cease To Be

By Haroon Moghul

…ary into a responsible process of democratization. Who else can summon the numbers adequate to force the military’s hand? And the Islamists, too, might read these lessons in their own way: They can participate in politics, but not really. Or only under strict limits, which others will decide for them. That didn’t work in Algeria, and tens of thousands died in a war that the deep state exploited for its purposes. It only worked in Turkey until the…

Fake, Evil, Spiritual, Commodified; What’s the Truth About Popular Yoga?

By Andrea R. Jain

…Near the beginning of my graduate school career, I had the opportunity to travel to Rajasthan to research Jain traditions and came upon the Jain Shvetambara Terapanth (a Jain sectarian tradition) and its guru at the time, Mahaprajna, who was famous for having introduced a new form of “Jain yoga” called preksha dhyana. My inability to grasp the contrast between the world-, society-, and body-negating ascetic ideology of traditional Jain monastic t…

Why Zubik is Especially Important for Women of Color

By Elizabeth Platt and Kira Shepherd

…e women and women of color to get an abortion, since many cannot afford to travel the long distances needed to reach a clinic. A recent New York Times article found that clinic closings appear to be closely linked to the uptick in searches for illegal, self-induced abortion. In addition, women who have unintended pregnancies are more likely to abuse substances while pregnant and less likely to seek prenatal care, which can negatively impact the he…