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Bishops Release Religious Liberty Manifesto Vowing Disobedience to “Unjust Laws”

By Sarah Posner

…the Feasts of St. John Fisher and St. Thomas More—to July 4, Independence Day.” Fusing the martyrdom of Catholic saints with Independence Day, the Bishops write, “Our liturgical calendar celebrates a series of great martyrs who remained faithful in the face of persecution by political power . . . . Culminating on Independence Day, this special period of prayer, study, catechesis, and public action would emphasize both our Christian and American h…

Paranoia and the Progressive Press: A Response to WaPo’s Religion Columnist

By Peter Montgomery

…franca among the religious right, forming the basis for Janet Porter’s May Day rally on the mall last year as well as the National Day of Prayer and Jim Garlow’s Pray and Act campaign. The Family Research Council and prominent religious right figures like Harry Jackson and David Barton all use the language. In other words, this is not a movement dreamed up by people with no understanding of Christianity who simply want to stir up fear of conservat…

Why Conservatives Really Oppose Federal Aid for the ‘Undeserving’

By Daniel Schultz

…m, choosing Easter must have been like selecting Independence Day or Arbor Day or Groundhog Day — a useful date on which to hang a ploy. Likewise, Paul Waldman is baffled by Lindsey Graham’s attacks on nurses: “You know, the ones who right now are risking their lives to treat coronavirus patients, and are in some cases forced to wear trash bags because their hospitals have run out of protective gear.” John Stoehr is equally befuddled by Graham, wh…

At Moms for Liberty Summit, ‘Mama Bears’ Declare Spiritual War on the ‘Radical Left’

By Annika Brockschmidt

…oor air quality, protesters maintained their defiant presence on the third day of the summit outside the Marriott Hotel where community organizers passed out water and sunscreen. Inside, Moms for Liberty, who claim to be champions of free speech, used this display of their fellow Americans exercising their 1st Amendment rights to paint themselves as victims of the “radical Left” and the “Marxists” who have forced them to endure unjust abuse and vi…

The Unsung Speech at Notre Dame, A Postmortem

By Mary E. Hunt

…he Middle Ages. FYI, “Laetare” means “rejoice” and refers to the fourth Sunday (Rose Sunday) of Lent when Catholics are reminded that their sacrifices are well worth what awaits them. The medal winner is named on this day, presumably to add to the rejoicing. A look at Notre Dame’s recipients from the award’s inception in 1883 to this year’s selection who no-showed, Mary Ann Glendon, includes politicians and military leaders, social justice stars a…

The Problem with AMC’s Sci-Fi Hit Humans

By Andrew Aghapour

…chines. Critics have praised Humans for going beyond sci-fi’s typical doomsday portrayal of artificial intelligence. If the Terminator and Matrix franchises reflected our fear of one day being dominated by machines, Humans taps into a subtler anxiety about being replaced by them. In this parallel world, synths don’t just take jobs, they also excel at the subtleties of domestic labor: preparing home cooked meals, massaging a tired spouse, reading t…

The Idiot Play

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…dministration. Today is always more of the same, days piled on top of days. Shakespeare understood this manic dilemma all too well. Here is Macbeth, another ambitious leader whose overreaching makes him monstrous: Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,/ Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,/ To the last syllable of recorded time;/ And all our yesterday’s have lighted fools/ The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!/ Life’s but a walking…

Gays to Ex-Gay Movement: “Lift My Luggage”

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…us International, the group that sponsored the event this year. Called the Day of Truth, the annual April event has been pushed by influential conservative Christian groups as a way to counter the annual Day of Silence, an event promoted by gay rights advocates to highlight threats against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender students. Perhaps Exodus is beginning to come to its senses about how harmful their message really is to gay and lesbian…

Religion Round-Up: What’s Going on in Religion Around the World

By Diane Winston

…08:08:08 p.m,. the summer Olympics are scheduled to begin in Beijing. The day and hour for the start of the Olympics was chosen for its good fortune—a widely held belief in Confucianism and Chinese folk religions.” By American standards (which are unusually high among developed nations), religion is not a significant factor among the Chinese: only 31% deem it very or somewhat important in their lives. However, given six decades of a repressive po…

Indonesia: As Volcano Erupts, a Spiritual Loss

By Mark Woodward

…hern horizon. Merapi is always at least somewhat active. It “smokes” every day. In the more than thirty years that I have been visiting Yogyakarta, I have never seen Merapi without a plume of smoke rising from the summit. There are many in Yogyakarta who understand natural disasters in religious ways. Merapi holds a special place in the mystical variant of Islam that is common in the area. It is widely believed that there is an invisible North-Sou…