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“The Gift of Gay”: Father Matthew Kelty, Confessor to Thomas Merton, Dies at 96

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…re unstable world of human forms. Born Charles Richard Kelty Jr., in South Boston (in 1915, just like Merton), his parents were no artists. His father was an engineer and a machinist from New Jersey; he was arguably the most precocious of their four children. He was educated in public schools in Milton, Massachusetts, where by his own confession he acquired his lifelong taste for poetry. In other words, unlike Merton, he did not have art foisted u…

Netanyahu Patriarch Dies at 102, Leaves Hawkish Legacy

By Shalom Goldman

…period when the two ambitious young businessmen were working for the same Boston consulting firm in the 1970s. The elder Netanyahu’s death has given Romney yet another opportunity to position himself as ‘pro-Israel’—or in his words, a champion of “all who care about Israel.” The implication, of course, is that Obama, and liberals in general, do not care about the Jewish state. This most recent opportunity to praise Israel’s right-wing leadership…

Killing For Religion, Not God

By Haroon Moghul

…temptation to return to ugly ideologies will only increase. Recently, the Boston Review covered the rise of a worryingly far-right party in Hungary, and its attendant anti-Semitic impulses, whether explicit or implicit. Breivik’s screeds link Marxists and multiculturalists and blames both for a defense of Muslims; “Marxist” is often a stand-in for Jewish, as the rootless population that, in this case, enables an imagined Islamic conquest—Jews as…

Can the Religious Left be Effective Again? Short Answer: No

By Daniel Schultz

…ivists, but they tend to be in lefty paradises like Madison or Berkeley or Boston. Outside those areas, they’re much fewer and farther between, and in total, they’re outnumbered by the partisan-neutral churches. That’s not nothing to the religious left! A neutral church is not a conservative church, and that helps. But in terms of political effect, it blunts the liberal thrust. Along the same lines, religious lefties often don’t wear their faith o…

Occupy’s Sacred Mob and the Politics of Vagrancy

By Vincent Gonzalez

…ch some faithful 99%-ers may be opposed. The “Sacred Space” tent at Occupy Boston invites meditation between a Buddha statue and a picture of Christ. Occupy Phoenix built an improvised shrine where First Nations traditions interact with Catholicism and Neo-Paganism. On Zuccotti Park’s makeshift community altar, Gandhi shares space with Alex Grey, John the Baptist, and Kwan-Yin. Here, in sites of religious conjunction that must repel some participa…

AIDS Progress is Paradoxical

By Susan Henking

…What’s wrong here? Perhaps the same thing that is wrong when we see rising numbers in various populations globally and locally? Wedding Bells and Decriminalization And yet, not all the news is depressing. Not even all the news at the intersection of AIDS/HIV and religion is depressing. American governments and courts are hard at work legalizing same-sex marriage which, despite the cynic in me that thinks marriage equality involves joining the cons…

UPDATED: Warren is… Heterogeneous on Gay Marriage; In Hot Water for Equivocation

By Bill Berkowitz

…mega-best-selling book, ”The Purpose Driven Life,” said that “There were a number of things that were put out. I wrote to all my gay friends—the leaders that I knew—and actually apologized to them. That never got out.” When King asked Warren about the Iowa court decision allowing gay marriage, he maintained that the Iowa decision was totally off his radar screen: “I’m—I’m totally oblivious to—to what—that’s not even my agenda.” According to OneNew…

Bush’s Favorite Catholic Departs The Scene

By Peter Laarman

…they gave us Iran-Contra (they all lionized Ollie North, and one of their number—the execrable Elliott Abrams—is still running our disastrous Middle East policy as Assistant Secretary of State). They also tried, unsuccessfully in this case, to discredit the anti-apartheid forces in South Africa and their allies here in the United States. They orchestrated a pretty effective pushback against affirmative action programs at every level and against E…

Has American Conservatism Abandoned the Christian Right?

By Bradley Onishi

…late of similar laws over the past century,” writes Michael Bronski at the Boston Review. “In significant ways, ‘Don’t Say Gay’ laws—and obsessions with ‘grooming’ more broadly—are old Christian fears about sin and danger given a new face, and express this by recycling medieval anti-Semitic tropes of the blood libel, simply substituting LGBTQ people for Jews as the supposed threat to children.” In sum, Mr. DeSantis’ “Don’t Say Gay” campaign is not…

Beyond Radical: Mary Daly, Feminist Theologian, Changed Worlds

By Susan Henking

…and promotion to full professor, and forced into retirement, the longtime Boston College professor’s career spanned world transformations of Roman Catholicism, higher education, and American culture’s treatment of women. Beginning with her degrees from the University of Fribourg in Switzerland, where she was the first woman to receive a theological degree, through her witnessing of the debate of Vatican II, her authorship of transformational phil…