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New Poll Shows Strong Catholic Support for Gay Rights

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ve played a large role in opposing same-sex marriage issues, including the latest attempt to pass marriage equality in Maryland. “They’re not going to be distracted by any polls and certainly not what the laity says about these things. We’ll certainly see a lot of activism on the part of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops to try to keep at bay the move toward increasing laws favoring same-sex marriage,” Dillon said. Another surprise in th…

Philadelphia Man Blames Bible for Stoning Death

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ent once and for all is a terribly naïve way to read a very complicated text. Instead, one must be trained to actually read the Bible in a responsible manner – preferably, as Hauerwas states, within a community dedicated to taking the Bible seriously. As Jennifer Wright Knust writes in her latest book, Unprotected Texts, “The only way the Bible can be regarded as straightforward and simple is if no one bothers to read it. The Bible was not a colle…

Gingrich and Hagee, End-Times Buddies

By Sarah Posner

…hich are America’s best. We sold them to Egypt along with hundreds of our latest and greatest fighter jets because Egypt was controlled by Mubarak who was America’s friend. Can you imagine what Israel faces with Iran, Egypt, Syria, Turkey and Russia coming after them? The prophet Ezekiel clearly predicted this battle thousands of years ago and you are watching the players get into position with lightning speed. Jesus said: “When you see these…

Sex Is More Fun than Lying

By Sarah Posner

…blogging will be light or possibly nonexistent. So I’ll leave you with the latest religion Bloggingheads which I taped earlier this week with Michael Brendan Dougherty of the American Conservative. We discussed Michael’s new cover story on religion and the Tea Party (a topic RD readers are certainly familiar with), although we delved into some of the foreign policy divides within religious conservatism — basically the Armadeggon-ites versus the no…

Facebook Doesn’t Kill Churches, Churches Kill Churches

By Elizabeth Drescher

…al. Along the same lines, Rome recently announced a new Facebook page that promotes the beatification of Pope John Paul II. Monsignor Paul Tighe tells USA Today that the page is a move in the direction of greater interactivity: “What we found is that Facebook doesn’t just share information, it creates community. People begin talking to each other and sharing ideas.” He’s right! Just probably not on the John Paul II Facebook page. The page, which o…

Red Riding Hood Arouses Man’s Inner (Were)Wolf

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…o the spooky fairy tale has now transformed into a sort of love-story. The latest film version, Red Riding Hood, is thus a knowing participant in a very long folkloric tradition that takes us all the way back to Early Modern Europe. There are intriguing gestures toward each of the tales Orenstein rehearses, and they’ve even added a little vampire logic for good measure. These werewolves can pass their powers on with a bite, but only in the once-ev…

Sniffing the Zeigeist

By Sarah Posner

Hot off the press: the latest religion Bloggingheads, with yours truly and the American Conservative’s Michael Brendan Dougherty. We discussed Peter King’s Muslim “radicalization” hearings, the shari’ah conspiracy theory industry, and then digressed on to Newt Gingrich’s patriotic infidelity and how that squares (or not) with his new-found Catholicism. And last — but not least — we chatted about Rob Bell’s possible heresy, a favorite topic here a…

My Lent: Ashes, Addiction, and the Reality of Hell (Pace Rob Bell)

By Debra Dean Murphy

…”) are not entertaining, nor are the tweets and status updates hurling the latest zingers, looking for easy laughs. But I understand that we all want to be funny on Facebook (and to be “liked”) and that we live in an age when everyone is an armchair therapist. The depths one descends to while in the grip of addiction and its associated pathologies are rightly called “hell” since they constitute a black hole of alienation, torment, and anguish. Fri…

Creationists Try to Claim Scopes

By Lauri Lebo

A Tennessee lawmaker is leading efforts to introduce the latest anti-evolution strategy into public school science class. I have an article in today’s Scientific American about the proposed legislation, as well as continuing efforts in Texas and Louisiana to water down the teaching of evolution. What makes the Tennessee bill so interesting is that the man who leading the campaign is invoking the name of John Scopes, the science teacher convicted…

Pence Amendment not Just About Abortion, but About Thwarting Contraception

By Sarah Posner

…o focus on ending family planning. In the press release, the Howard Center promotes the most recent issue of its quarterly journal, which is centered on the theme of what the Center contends are the horrific societal effects of family planning and contraception. From the press release: “How timely is it that the most recent issue of The Family in America: A Journal of Public Policy would highlight the harm and exploitation of women and children un…