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Catholic Bishops End Family Synod With Little To Say To Gays; World Congress of Families Has Plenty To Say, None of it Good; How Same-Sex Marriage Came to a Buddhist Temple in Japan; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…hops ended Saturday (Oct. 24) by endorsing ways that could lead to greater participation by divorced and remarried Catholics — a major source of friction here — while the 270 churchmen declined to take up the even more controversial issue of how and whether to be more welcoming to gays. The final document was an obvious compromise intended to gain support from both reformers and hardliners and achieve as much consensus as possible. The three-week…

Sex Abuse in the Catholic Church: When Adults are Victims

By Kathryn Joyce

…l lack of ordained staff equipped to serve Spanish-speaking communities, a papal dictate was issued in 2003, calling for an expanded role for laity in the church’s ministry. Two years later, the Committee on the Laity of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops issued a report, “Co-Workers in the Vineyard of the Lord,” detailing a plan to use the more than 32,000 “lay ecclesial ministers” already in place to minister to an increasingly Spanish-speaki…

I Met God, She’s Black: An Exhibit Makes the Black Female Body a Temple

By Anita Little

…r essential selves and that will transform us from inside out. Beyoncé can participate, but I don’t think she’s the primary tool to do that. You said that you see this not only as an exhibit but as a movement-building platform. Now that the exhibit is nearing the end of its run, in what ways do you hope it will continue to inspire? The best way to answer that question is to go to what people have said to me—and that is they feel the need to create…

Why Do Evangelicals And Dems Want Immigration Reform?

By Daniel Schultz

…avorable party to immigrants. In the same Gallup analysis quoted above, Hispanics’ party identification was 53 percent Democratic to 21 percent Republican, a 32 point pro-Democratic gap. The last survey from the authoritative Pew Hispanic Center, conducted in mid-2008, had a larger 39-point gap in the Democrats’ favor (65-26). Asian Americans, perhaps surprisingly, are now about as Democratic-oriented as Hispanics. They show strong support for Dem…

Marriage Vote ‘Transforms’ Not-So-Catholic Ireland; Activist to Malaysian PM – ‘Love Is Not Terrorism’; LGBTs Find Growing Acceptance in Colombia, Not At World Meeting of Families; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…e are asking for. Vatican: Tensions mounting as World Meeting of Families, papal visit, approach We reported last week that Catholic officials in Philadelphia were refusing to allow advocates for LGBT Catholics to use church facilities for events during the Pope’s visit to the city for the World Meeting of Families. This week, David Crary from the Associated Press reports: The World Meeting of Families in Philadelphia, the central religious event…

Anonymous Utah Group Distributes Vigilante “Illegal Immigrant” Watchlist

By Joanna Brooks

…Christ of Latter-day Saints, it’s pretty safe to assume that a significant number of “Concerned Citizens of the United States” are Mormon. But so too are a significant number of undocumented immigrants living in the American West. As we’ve reported here at RD, the Church’s strongest growth over the last decade has been among Latino populations, and almost 4.5 million Mormons worldwide are Spanish-speaking. Economic downtimes and anti-immigrant out…

The Silly Calls for Congress to Investigate Planned Parenthood

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…nclear, and said that Medicaid should be reimbursed for birth control pill packs “at cost.” Planned Parenthood negotiated with drug companies for really low prices on the pills, thus keeping costs down; but then billed Medicaid for what they paid for the pills as well as what it cost to store and dispense them. Suddenly Planned Parenthood’s billing seems a lot more reasonable, right? So reasonable, in fact, that Planned Parenthood of California wa…

Does Multiverse Theory Bring Theology Into Science?

By Andrew Aghapour

…CE, the multiverse is a way to sidestep theology: if there are an infinite number of universes that take on all possible parameters throughout eternity, then we don’t have to appeal to a god to explain the bounty or harmony of the world around us. Given an infinite number of universes, a few of them are bound to be life-friendly at some point, and we’re in one of them. The problem, of course, is that the price of getting rid of God is an infinite…

Creators of Missing Lowe’s Ad Tell All

By Hussein Rashid

…e popular “It Gets Worse” viral video for Dan Savage’s “It Gets Better” campaign. Fox optioned his pilot “Yearbook” as part of their Diversity program, his pilot, “rare” (about a family of cannibals who immigrates to America) was brought to HBO by Philip Seymour Hoffman and Emily Ziff’s Cooperstown Productions as part of their first-look deal, and recently his pilot “As Seen on TV” was honored with a reading at the Rose D’Or Festival in Lucerne, S…

By the Way: Religious Right Losing its Grip?

By Randall Balmer

…o Obama’s pro-choice position on abortion and to his recent directive to expand the parameters of stem-cell research. John M. D’Arcy, the Roman Catholic bishop of Fort Wayne-South Bend, Indiana, declared his intention to stay away from the commencement proceedings, and the Cardinal Newman Society, based in Manassas, Virginia, has collected petitions asking that the president of Notre Dame rescind the invitation to Obama. Such protests from hard-ri…