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Massacre of Jesuits in El Salvador: 20 Years Later

By Richard Amesbury

…program for the poor; and their domestic employee Julia Elba Ramos and her 15-year-old daughter Celina, who had sought refuge inside the Jesuit dormitory that fateful night because of heavy fighting in the capital. Somewhere between 75,000 and 100,000 Salvadorans are believed to have died during the civil war, and they too are acknowledged as presente. In what has become an annual tradition, students on Saturday decorated the main street of the u…

Masculinity and Mass Violence: When Will We Acknowledge the Smoking Gendered Pronoun Hiding in Plain Sight?

By Elizabeth Drescher

…e Columbine”—a list of nearly 30 shooting sprees with lethal results. Ne’er-do-wells who merely wounded didn’t make the cut. Thus, not included on the list was a shooting spree in an Alabama bar with a multiple arson warm-up just two days earlier. There, enraged after having been fired from his job (only the latest in a string of personal and financial calamities), NVW fired into a bar from across the street, wounding or otherwise injuring 17 peop…

The Theology That Inspired the Poway Synagogue Shooting (and New Zealand) Remains Strikingly Commonplace

By Ivan Strenski

…y and Saint Brenton of Christchurch” (sic). Others assume insincere passive-aggressive, self-pitying stances. One, posted by Owen Benjamin pleads, “I did not want to kill Jews. But they have given us no other option…the Jew—with his genocidal instincts—is insistent on poking the bear.” Yeah, right. Or, another post, this time anonymous, reads “Vigil Held For Annihilated Parasites Of Poway Synagogue Shooting.” To be fair, many other posts on chan8/…

It’s the Theology, Stupid: Why the Shocking SBC Report is Anything But Surprising

By Chrissy Stroop and Jessica Johnson

…gives the SBC higher ground over any “secular” ways of identifying or being-in-the-world. That’s why the SBC has so many, many “resolutions” setting themselves against whatever they deem “secular”—be it “CRT” (or just racism–as Resolution 2 states it), LGBTQ folks, those who seek abortions, women who hold positions of leadership (or simply desire credit for the work they actually do), or even in this case, sexual abuse. It’s like, our [Christian]…

To Let It Go and So To Find A Way: U2, (A)Live with Grief and Grace

By Cathleen Falsani

…fostered. The band literally climbs into their past via a gargantuan state-of-the-art multimedia screen they call “the divide” that runs the length of the stadium along the narrow center stage that allows fans to get physically close to the musicians. They play inside the screen as images from their past—including drawings of Bono’s childhood home on Cedarwood Road in Dublin and home movies of his mother—are projected on the surface. It’s difficu…

What Do You Think?: “Padre Oprah” Scandal Has Many Asking Whether Priests Should Be Allowed to Marry

By Frances Kissling

…hen I was growing up there were a fair share of what we called Father “What-a-wastes”… outgoing, kind, good looking, mostly young men who made you wonder what they were doing in the priesthood. They’d make, we thought, great husbands and fathers. But alongside them were many profoundly unhappy and lonely men, poorly adjusted and quietly drinking themselves to death. These men got little help from the church who saw their problem as moral weakness,…

U.S. Bishops Reject Pope Francis’ Priorities

By Patricia Miller

…Francis wasn’t a willful rejection of the pope’s agenda, but more of a wait-and-see attitude of exactly what that agenda was and how it could be implemented in concrete detail. But the jig is up. Its been nearly three years. The pope has clearly laid out his priorities, first in Laudato si and then during his recent trip to the U.S. But at their fall meeting in Baltimore this week, the majority of the bishops forcefully rejected giving Francis’ co…

In a Powerful Statement Black Presidents and Deans Say: No More Stolen Black Lives!

By Pamela R. Lightsey

…isconduct, to include clarity about “excessive force.” ○ A moratorium on no-knock warrants for drug-related arrests. ○ An end to “broken-windows” policing. ○ The implementation of swift and strong fines against persons who make emergency calls to police departments based upon false allegations against Black citizens. ○ State and local level public policy initiatives that ensure police review boards comprise citizens representing its diverse neighb…

Larry King’s Immoral Debate on Homosexuality and the Bible

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…d everyone else in the media fails to understand is that this is not a “two-side” issue. This is an issue about human beings and how we treat them. Putting Knapp in this situation isn’t just bad journalism, it’s immoral—it’s sinful. She should not have to face down bigots like Botsford anymore than Rep. John Lewis should have to debate a member of the Ku Klux Klan every time he goes on television. There is no “other side” argument to homosexuality…

Judge Rules Law Prohibiting Picketing Outside Military Funerals Unconstitutional

By Julie Ingersoll

…e the trip from the Midwest to the west coast to protests to at Comicon in San Diego where they were met with a mocking counter-demonstration. At issue is the right of families of the deceased to mourn in private against what is clearly political speech—although legal efforts to stop the church’s protests were not raised when the target was gays but only now the target is the families of soldiers. Of course, if you watch South Park (or if you are…