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The End of Roe Comes Courtesy of the Catholic Church — But From ‘The Dorothy Day Abortion Fund’ to ‘St. Vincent de Paul Vasectomy Clinic,’ Here Are Some Ideas for Catholics Looking to Make a Difference

By Mary E. Hunt

…men heard that before? Maybe he has annulment in mind. The price is surely high and it’s women who pay it. The best Catholic response to date has come from the Midwestern-based church reform group Call to Action, launched in 1976 as part of a dialogue initiated by U.S. Catholic bishops and lay people after Vatican II. But when participants at the three-day conference joined social issues like poverty, sexism, and militarism, with ecclesial issues…

Baring Their Testimonies: Mormon Women Get Naked for the Camera

By Holly Welker

…I doubt everyone will accept that. From the moment I showed up at BYU as a high school senior to check the campus out until I graduated, I felt like it was a cuteness contest. There’s a lot of pressure for girls to be attractive. Whether it’s spoken or not, and as much as more independent women might want to deny it, there’s a huge pressure in Mormon culture to get married before age 25. So that campus feels like you’re always on display. My non…

Is Pope Francis Yogaphobic?

By Andrea R. Jain

…g yoga were not dissimilar from other yogaphobic remarks from contemporary high-profile Catholics whose positions have ranged from identifying yoga as self-destructive activity to associating it with Satan. Back in 1989, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF) of the Roman Catholic Church published the “Letter to the Bishops of the Catholic Church on Some Aspects of Christian Meditation” warning of the “dangers and errors” of fusing C…

Gun Ownership as Sin—A Strategic, Secular Proposal for Gun Reform

By Ira Chernus

…al talent for technological invention, a traditionally masculine preserve. High demand for guns was in fact a major motive for developing interchangeable parts, which made mass production possible. Names like Samuel Colt, Oliver Winchester, and Richard Gatling are high on the list of America’s industrial pioneers. Their products, along with other famous gun names, have become icons in the history of American technology. When gun owners talk about…

(Ex-)Ex-Gay Activist Alan Chambers On His Prop 8 Epiphany and the Downfall of Christianity and Evangelicalism

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ve God gave us scripture as something that is freeing. We no longer need a high priest to interpret it for us. We can do that ourselves because Jesus is our high priest. What they’re pushing is still a fear-based theology. I was in a private meeting about a year and a half ago with a prominent Southern Baptist leader and I told him there’s so much animosity in this conversation. They were lamenting the anger they felt from LGBT people. I told them…

Does Analytic Thinking Erode Religious Belief?

By Andrew Aghapour

…subtle: Participants received sets of five randomly arranged words (e.g. “high winds the flies plane”) and were asked to drop one word and rearrange the others in order to create a more meaningful sentence (e.g. “the plane flies high”). Some of their participants were given scrambled sentences containing words associated with analytic thinking (e.g. “analyze,” “reason”) and other participants were given sentences that featured neutral words (e.g….

What Connects Racism, Misogyny and Faith? Community. And That’s a Bad Thing

By Daniel Schultz

…ld leads them to build, what the church sociologist Nancy Ammerman calls, “high walls” between their members and the wider society, creating an all-embracing culture that resists outside perspectives. In other words, evangelical culture promotes firm boundaries and homogeneity. As well, white evangelicals, especially in the South, have constructed their faith as the foundation of white culture, over and against other parts of society. That nationa…

How a Group of Catholic Pacifists Took on the Nuclear State

By Eric C. Miller

…e drama and efficacy of the actions was more important than increasing the number of participants. They use the language of vocation to talk about their project, not the language of social movements. Of course the corollary is that as the years go by, there are fewer Plowshares activists and fewer Plowshares actions. But their worldview has always accommodated small numbers, characterizing them as a mark of faithfulness and authenticity. Faithful…

Jews and Christians for Santorum?

By Sarah Posner

…ys as an enemy of Christians and America. Health care reform, gays, Muslim high school students, secularists, and yes, Mormons, are also on his list. Perusing my inbox, a sampling: “Obama’s Fraudulent Faith Just Unmasked.” “Obama’s Economic Policy Directly Opposes the Bible.” “Rick Santorum is Right: Satan Has Targeted America.” “Stand Strong: Stop the Intimidation Today.” “Twisted Scripture: Overcoming the Lies of Homosexuality.” “URGENT: Stop Sh…

Eat, Pray, Kill: The Basic Brutality of Eating

By Beatrice Marovich

…m that the growing surge of vegans and vegetarians have claim to the moral high ground. One might even make the argument that religious vegetarianism is one of the few things that makes modern religions look good. But not everyone is satisfied with this solution. “Ethically speaking, vegetables get all the glory,” Ariel Kaminer lamented in the New York Times, playing the role of the paper’s esteemed Ethicist. And so, in an attempt to buck this tre…