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The Pope in My Pocket; We Are All Dilettantes Now

By Michael A. Elliott

…ut it may be that what exactly conversion means in contemporary life could change as well. The iPhone is not about making hard choices; it is about creating new networks of possibility. When I watch Benedict XVI on my iPhone, he looks calm and stately; his voice is measured and even. I don’t know, though, whether the Pope has his own iPhone yet. If he doesn’t, I’m sure that the folks at Apple would be happy to help him out. He might enjoy poking b…

Spiritual McCarthyism and the Catholic Vote

By Bill Berkowitz

…Obama’s National Catholic Outreach Coordinator] informing him of the three phone calls, requesting that he respond to my question: ‘I would like to know whether the Catholic National Advisory Council for Sen. Obama is still operative.’ He has not replied. Donohue’s statement continued: It would appear, then, that the group no longer exists. It is not hard to understand why. After being criticized by the Catholic League, Archbishop Joseph Naumann…

Hajj Journal: M & M

By Amina Wadud

…though this, the men would hover around the tent entries, send notes, make phone calls, actually get their phone cords recharged, and send food and drink through every possible opening in the tent. As far as I could tell, it was always the men hanging around our tent and not the women hanging around the men’s tent. Pretty funny if you think about it. They were like lost puppies without their women. Yet patriarchy would have us think they are the m…

What The Church Needs More Than a ‘Good Pope’

By Mary E. Hunt

…interview. First, Pope Francis is a person who freely admits that he can change his ways. I admire that. Having been wrong more times than I can count, I understand a person who admits that while at the time s/he did what s/he thought was right, in retrospect it was dead wrong. Pope Francis acknowledges that when he was the provincial of the Jesuits in Buenos Aires his leadership style was authoritarian. He chalks it up to his youthfulness and c…

What if Israel Were in Germany? An Alternate History

By Haroon Moghul

…wer, the main thing I’d say about that is that in the long run it tends to change hands. And while there are nicer reasons to cultivate an ethic of mercy and fairness, one of the most important ones is: Your turn on the bottom could be next. Maybe this isn’t the kind of question you, as an author, would like to get, but why do you think the Arab world is in the condition it is in? Do you think that the Arab spring will change things–for people ove…

Sometimes Dialogue is Not the Answer and Neutrality is a Trap: An Interview with the Authors of ‘The Neutrality Trap’

By Chrissy Stroop

…s Take a break when needed Be actively patient—while you wait for the “big change,” work on “smaller” changes Work with others—changing systems is not a one-person job Make time to celebrate major and minor milestones Bernie: I’ve heard this from a few people. You should be wary of toxic positivity, and by no means are we saying that people are wrong to feel pessimistic and even despairing. We feel what we feel. But I would make two points about t…

Invited by Allah

By Amina Wadud

…no office I could do to secure what was demanded of me, so the day for my flight came and went and the ticket never got used. During that year, a woman read my tea leaves after supper with some of my new friends. If you don’t know how that works, first I drank a cup of tea with leaves still settled at the bottom. Once the liquid is mostly all drunk, the reader takes the leaves, swishes them around in the bottom of the cup, turns the cup upside do…

Refusing the Monsters on Maple Street: A First-Person Commentary from the Mass Hysteria at JFK

By Marion Grau

…John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York, as I waited to board a flight back home to Oslo. I was there on Aug. 14, 2016, when, after years of the “War on Terror,” one of North America’s most important international airports seized up as panicked reports of “multiple active shooters”—later discredited as false—swept through the terminals, sending passengers, law-enforcement, and airline workers scrambling for cover and eventually onto the…

As Long As There’s Fear, We Aren’t Ready for Atheism: A Conversation with Theologian and Ex-Priest Daniel Maguire

By Alana Massey

…in the morning and seeing the sun shine and the sky blue and the birds in flight and saying, ‘Thank you God,’ and you’re taking that away from me.” You write “theism promises simplicity and security and delivers neither,” but you do refer to a world that was “not yet ready for atheism.” Do you believe the world is now ready for atheism? As long as there is fear, it will never be fully ready. Fear makes you reach for a supernatural insurance polic…

Vatican Considers ‘Disordered’ Language; HBO Doc on LGBT Persecution in Russia; Nigerian Bishop Shifts on Anti-Gay Law; Arson at ‘Open Mosque’ in South Africa; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…omosexual persons, which he is no proclaiming. Even so, Kaigama’s apparent change of heart is interesting, This obvious change of tone from Africa is just one clear indication of how the voice of the Spirit, and the leadership of Pope Francis, are clearly working through the synod to effect a much needed change in tone and in style, which will inevitably lead to a change in pastoral practice. As DeBenardo notes, there will not in the short term be…