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Meeting on the Bridge: Fr. James Martin’s Ministry to LGBT Catholics Becomes a Book

By Kaya Oakes

…eligious media: still working a day job as the editor-at-large of America magazine (where I’m an occasional contributing writer), he’s also become a go-to explainer of Catholic issues to both religious and secular audiences. He’s so successful in this role that in April of this year, he took up yet another job when he was invited by Pope Francis to be a consultor to the Vatican’s Secretariat for Communications. In the past few years, however, even…

The Pope’s Gay Priests

By William J. Dohar

…judge actions.” Archbishop Vigneron of Detroit joined Dolan in whittling away anything new in Francis’ words: “There’s no change” to the church’s teachings on homosexuality, Vigneron said. “He may have had his own Pope Francis way of putting it, different from maybe the way Pope Benedict would put it, but they’re saying the same things.” Cardinal George of Chicago issued a statement that included among other things: “Pope Francis, on his way ba…

Norwegian Catholic Church May Stop Civil Marriages; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ssary has initially been published in English, French, Turkish, Farsi, and Arabic. The London-based Kaleidoscope Trust has published a set of recommendations designed to help The Commonwealth of Nations (formerly known as the British Commonwealth) to improve the lives of LGBT people even though, as 76 Crimes notes, “dozens of those countries still have anti-LGBT laws inherited from their former colonial overlords.” The group’s “toolkit” includes s…

Trump Doesn’t Need to “Pivot” if Evangelicals Do it For Him

By Paul Harvey

…is evangelical base. There hasn’t been a pivot, but the campaign team has managed to hit the “partly reset” button—at least as long as they can keep their boss’s itchy fingers off Twitter. Whether this will sway the fracturing of a considerable number of Catholic voters from that base, however, remains dubious. His address to the group also shows his evolution into someone less ill-at-ease with Bible verses and more attuned to the language of Amer…

Why Cliven Bundy Wasn’t A Religious Right Hero

By Sarah Posner

…servatives (some rather belatedly) who lionized his supposedly brave stand against the big bad federal government, until his racist statements were published in the New York Times. As Jamelle Bouie chronicles, Bundy’s view that blacks were better off under slavery are “fairly common within the conservative movement,” the only difference being he “isn’t sophisticated enough to couch his nonsense in soundbites and euphemism.” Adam Serwer adds: This…

The Bleeding Heart of Muslim Europe

By Haroon Moghul

On the cover of Today’s Zaman, a Bosniak woman is crying over one coffin among dozens. The paper identifies them as the remains of 613 recently identified victims of the Srebrenican genocide, found in the many places Serb forces tried so hard to hide them, ripped apart in some cases by the bulldozers used to bury them. That’s the English-language edition of Turkey’s top-selling newspaper; the story is big news in Turkish, too. It means something…

Oh Say, Can You See?: 9/11 Flag Displays and the Flag’s Symbolic Power

By Spencer Dew

…two and a half acres. One immediate goal with such an arrangement (as with analogous displays of white crosses in protest of abortion or the array of wooden angels to commemorate the victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre) is to convey the enormity of the loss of life, to make otherwise abstract numbers visible. In the Oak Brook commemoration, each flag has attached to it a brief biography of the person killed, with color-coded ribbo…

The Man in the Red Dress: My Unlikely Friendship with Cardinal Francis George

By Cathleen Falsani

…ew rows back, I studied Cardinal Francis George’s reaction when our Alitalia flight bound for Pope John Paul II’s funeral in Rome hit the kind of turbulence that makes most travelers grip the armrest and offer involuntary prayers. Cardinal George held a copy of a broadsheet Italian newspaper in his hands, arms bent at a 45-degree angle as he casually read coverage of preparations for the conclave to elect John Paul II’s successor, in which he woul…

The Lesser and the Greater Pilgrimage

By Amina Wadud

…t to Makkah you should go straight to Masjid al-Haram, entering gate al-Salaam. There I will perform the tawaf, circumambulate the ka’abah seven times, starting at the corner with the black stone. Then I will perform sa’iy, walking and running seven times between Safa and Marwa. I only know that I arrive in Jeddah at 9:30 p.m. No other real information from that recalcitrant tour company about how long we will be at this transition point before mo…

From Organized Religion to Organizing Religion: Brian D. McLaren Wants Christians to Be Better

By Peter Laarman

…moves, in ascending order of importance, from personal spiritual migration away from a rule-bound static religion (and the conversion of lifeless churches into “schools of love”) to a longer and beautifully-done section on theological migration and then finally to the book’s longest and (I think) most problematic section—a programmatic proposal that McLaren frames as the necessary “missional” migration American Christians must make. I want to focu…