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Francis Visits the Church that John Paul Broke

By Patricia Miller

…erhaps the politics of religious affiliation, like “all politics,” is local.) As a result, what we now call the Catholic Church looks very different from the church of 1979. Francis will find a fractured church where a significant number of practicing Catholics aren’t receptive to his papacy and its message, and where a large population of those who would presumably be supportive of his papacy and its priorities are politically and doctrinally ali…

UNESCO on Religion, Culture and SOGI in Asia; Orthodox Family Sues to Stop Cremation of Israeli Trans Woman; Struggles of Iraqi Queer Activists; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ve been working in Russia as a human rights and political activist. I have participated in and organised numerous public events in support of LGBT rights and also political actions for the democratic opposition in St. Petersburg. In the last year our most urgent issue was the protesting against Russian military aggression in Ukraine. Protecting the rights of LGBT people and supporting Ukraine are the most urgent and dangerous issues in contemporar…

What a Turn-of-the-Century Anti-Abortion and Contraception Crusader Reveals About GOP Efforts to Ban Abortion Pills by Mail

By Steven K. Green

…items within their borders (as is already the case federally with lottery tickets). A Republican-controlled Congress could then impose a nationwide ban on the mailing of abortion pills or certain contraceptives. (Republican-controlled state legislatures have already demonstrated a willingness to enact questionable legislation for nothing more than its intimidation factor.) Which brings us back to Anthony Comstock. In 1878, the Supreme Court uphel…

Burning Down the Temple: Religion and Irony in Black Rock City

By Sarah M. Pike

…or many Burners, this pilgrimage to the desert is the closest they come to participating in anything like a religious community. They prepare for it all year, gathering costumes and camp decorations, assembling sculptures, planning meals with groups of friends, and scheduling shifts as lamplighters or temple guardians. These are not desert fathers or renunciants seeking a wilderness away from civilization in which they suffer and travail to prove…

Growing Catholic Resistance to Bishops’ Crusades

By Peter Montgomery

…ly passed same-sex marriage law.” Notably, among the parishes declining to participate are St. James Cathedral, the seat of the archdiocese, and Christ Our Hope, a new and growing parish in downtown Seattle. According to the Post-Intelligencer: The spreading dissent—although couched in respectful terms—comes at a time when the Catholic hierarchy is asserting its authority. Pope Benedict XVI, in a Holy Thursday sermon, took to task clergy who are a…

Does the Inquisition Explain the Modern World?

By Gordon Haber

…ace he mentions in God’s Jury, and he’s not afraid to tell us about it: “I passed the vast expanse of St. Peter’s Square, paused momentarily in the shade beneath a curving flank of Bernini’s colonnade”; “The roads of southwestern France, in the shadow of the Pyrenees, wind among deep valleys and steep gorges”; “Reading a book in an aircraft cruising above the Syrian Desert.” And so on. Then there’s Murphy’s habit of interrupting his narrative to p…

Communion or Disunion?

By Mary E. Hunt

…s and to remember the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus. In so doing, participants join in the grace, energy, and responsibility of the Jesus movement then and now. No one is excluded from the table. No priest is authorized to cover the ciborium when certain classes of people approach the altar. Rather, the heart of the Catholic tradition, sacrament and solidarity, is played out over and over in timeless worship with endless variations. “Marg…

Refusing the Monsters on Maple Street: A First-Person Commentary from the Mass Hysteria at JFK

By Marion Grau

…I shared what I learned with those standing around me or who didn’t have a phone, compared notes with others about what they knew, and tried to calm some who were scared and close to panic. As far as I could tell, the TSA personnel and other security officials seemed know about as much as the passengers about what was happening—all around me, I sensed a complete failure of nerve. A black woman wearing a security vest crouched outside on the tarmac…

An Open Letter to CEO Jeff Smisek On United Airlines’ Blasphemous Safety Video

By Austin Dacey

…le ourselves before this sublime work. But for now I will not rest, I will not sit back, relax, and enjoy the flight, until I hear the end of this violation. And neither should you, for it is the abomination that brings desolation. The final reckoning will not register which airline company boasted the most freshly painted fleet or ranked last in customer satisfaction. But there are some sacred goods of such high ideal as we instead are called to…

Invited by Allah

By Amina Wadud

…minute. Yesterday was magnanimous! It had been two weeks since the tour company received my passport by express mail when they told me I had to choose, apply for the visa or go to Berlin. They said then, the embassy says it will take 10-12 business days. I figured: if they got my visa into the embassy on the same day it arrived, at least ten days were up. Anyway I was too nervous NOT to make contact before the weekend, because, well, I was just ne…