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How Do You Beat a ‘Pretty Damning’ Impeachment Case? You Lie

By John Stoehr

…, according to Blake. That raises an interesting question for a democratic republic such as ours. If the Republicans have gone blind to the truth because they want to go blind to the truth, how on earth are Democratic impeachment managers supposed to get them to see? The Democrats presented and will continue to present a pretty damning political case demanding Trump’s disqualification from holding public office. How do you beat a pretty damning po…

Irish PM Scathing Denunciation of Vatican

By Anthea Butler

…phia may be the next Cloyne. The Archdiocese of Philadelphia appointed its new leader last week, Archbishop Charles Chaput of Denver. The Archbishop, who has presided over the “clean up” of several church scandals, most notably the Legionaries of Christ, will have his hands full with the Philadelphia grand jury reports and the upcoming trials, including that of Monsignor William Lynn, who has two felony charges against him for “purposefully shield…

Stem Cell Chronicles: Why Politics and Science Most Certainly Should Not Be Separated

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…en the bail-out plan consists primarily of printing out staggering sums of new money and dumping it on research and development. That’s where the politics will not go away, nor should it. The US taxpayer is funding this science; the US citizen has the right to some voice in the vetting process whereby new scientific proposals are approved for funding. The scientists are quite right to remind us that all such proposals are vetted by a rigorous revi…

Will the Taliban Actually Remain Somewhat Moderate This Time?

By Mark Juergensmeyer

…sion from outside. The diversity of political positions within the Islamic Republic of Iran give some indication that even a rather rigid religious regime is indeed capable of flexibility and perhaps significant change on its own. Muslim militants in other parts of the world have disagreed with Ayatollah Khomeini and rejected many of his positions. Post-revolution leaders in Iran, including Mohammad Khatami, Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, and Hassan Ro…

Health Care Post-Mortem: Left is Right, Right is Left and Public is Loser

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…rs and loved ones against each other. It was not so very long ago that the Republican-controlled Senate, and ex-President Bush attempted to intervene in the name of a single person, Terri Schiavo, to weigh in favoring the wishes of her biological family against her husband’s representation of her own wishes. That was a governmental death panel, and most citizens wanted no part of it. So this really is an odd position for an adamant right-to-lifer…

Billy Graham Was More Like White America’s Surrogate Savior Than “America’s Pastor”

By Peter Laarman

…acher.” Calling him that would be an insult to earlier figures who really knew how to use a pulpit: Charles Grandison Finney, Henry Ward Beecher, etc., as well as to Graham-contemporary preachers of real spiritual genius like Gardner C. Taylor. I would place Graham differently. I would describe him as white America’s surrogate savior. Although not personally vain about his looks, the young Billy Graham surely knew that he bore a striking resemblan…

Don’t Cry For Me Argentina, Cry For the Catholic Church

By Mary E. Hunt

…ted and cultured, if not very religious circles in Buenos Aires, everyone knew who the religious leaders were who could be counted on or not. The bishops, with few exceptions, were not very impressive. When Pio Laghi admitted he was “no hero,” no one contradicted him. Gay and lesbian rights took hold in Buenos Aires and to a less flamboyant but surely just as important degree in Cordoba, Mendoza, Rosario, and other large cities. Ironically, the fi…

The Story of ‘In God We Trust,’ Our Christian Nationalist Motto [Part 1]

By Andrew L. Seidel

…son proposed removing that heathen, “the Goddess of Liberty,” and adding a new, godly motto, something like, “God, liberty, law.” With the sense of entitlement typical of a religious majoritarian, Watkinson claimed that “no possible citizen could object” to such language. The change, Watkinson concluded, “would relieve us from the ignominy of heathenism. This would place us openly under the divine protection we have personally claimed. From my hea…

Will the Pope’s Woman Problem Alienate Young Catholics?

By Patricia Miller

…that subjugation a holy thing. Elizabeth Stoker Bruenig fired back in the New Republic that “liberal malcontents” are so busy attacking Francis for failing to be “a good center-left feminist” that they’re missing his “subtle” feminism, such as his insistence in the climate change encyclical Laudato si that “population control” policies ought to conform to women’s reproductive timelines, not to the needs of the market: Pope Francis’s interest is i…

What If Donald Trump is Just as Christian as Evangelicals?

By John Stoehr

…reedom, but no right to impose it on others. That white evangelical Christians believe they are an oppressed minority—see Ezra Klein’s latest—should not in any way deter other Americans from fighting like hell. Their worldview is categorically incompatible with a just and equitable democratic republic. Their politics is their religion, and their opponents should act accordingly. Is Trump as Christian as evangelicals are. Yes, it’s obvious. Once yo…