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If the Girl Scouts Investigated the Bishops…

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…s Most Rev. George Rassas. In 2008, Cardinal Francis George, Archbishop of Chicago, said in a deposition that Rassas had “withheld information about abuse allegations.” These are two of the people who will be seeing whether Girl Scouts USA meets the appropriate standards for a Catholic organizational partner. In light of this, why not ask whether the Committee on Laity, Marriage, Family Life, and Youth meet Girl Scouts USA’s standards, rather than…

Is Football a Pro-Life Sport?

By Marian Ronan

…nior Seau died in a suicide strongly resembling the 2011 suicide of former Chicago Bear’s safety Dave Duerson. Duerson intentionally shot himself in the chest, not the head, so his brain could be examined for a degenerative disease he feared he had contracted from multiple concussions. Subsequently he and twenty other former NFL players were diagnosed with the disease, chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE. Since then, approaching three thousan…

RDBook: Technology and Tradition: Carlson’s Indiscrete Image

By Nathan Schneider

…Image: Finitude and Creation of the Human Thomas A. Carlson University of Chicago Press, 2008 Thomas A. Carlson’s last book, Indiscretion: Finitude and the Naming of God, dealt largely with death. Carlson is a brooding yet incisive philosopher, a professor of religious studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. By connecting Martin Heidegger’s understanding of life in the shadow of death with how certain Christian mystics thought of…

Gay Pride Weekend Draws Mormon Allies and Equality Supporters

By Joanna Brooks

…ul parade-route meetings with gay Mormons estranged from the community. In Chicago, a contingent of 15 LDS marchers, organized just days before the event by former LDS bishop Kevin Kloosterman, marched as “Mormon Allies” with signs reading “God is Love,” “Love thy Neighbor,” and “All are Alike Unto God.” Marcher Mayra Diaz, who carried a sign that declared her support for marriage equality, expressed amazement at the “thank yous” the Mormon Allies…

Nuns on the Bus: 2700 Miles, Nine States, and a Rock Star DC Welcome

By Mary E. Hunt

…bleachers, and eight speakers lined up to address the crowd. The audience numbered about 30. Even Timothy Dolan at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York City, on the kickoff day of the Fortnight, only gathered 250 people. The nuns got that many in small towns across the country at stop after stop. The bus trip also proved that there is a deep hunger across generations for this kind of faith-based organizing. The crowd in DC was surprisingly younger…

Christian Terrorism Comes to Milwaukee

By Mark Juergensmeyer

…d from the army in 1998 for “patterns of misconduct.” He then relocated to Chicago and then to Milwaukee where he joined the skinhead underground and started a band. When he entered the Sikh Gurdwara (also called a “temple”) on Sunday, he was dressed in military fatigues and carried a military-style semi-automatic pistol. It is not clear whether he thought that Sikhs were Muslims, since male Sikhs are bearded and wear turbans, or whether he was an…

Mitt Romney’s Best-Known Mormon Critic Tells it All. One Last Time.

By Joanna Brooks

…omen who admire me?” I told him, “I always give them five or six names and numbers, and the press says, ‘we’ve gone to them, and they won’t talk.’” I said to reporters, “I can only tell you my experience, and my experience is that he’s not accepting of people who are different, particularly women who are single who he has to deal with one-on-one.” Lots of women told me, “Don’t give the press my name anymore,” some because they had negative things…

Jihad of Islamophobes

By Hussein Rashid

…ustry placed in New York City’s public transit system, Ahmed Rehab of CAIR-Chicago launched his own campaign, #MyJihad, designed as an “opportunity to get to the heart of the problem and to reclaim the word ‘Jihad.’” He engaged with professional Islamophobe Robert Spencer, who apparently admits to practicing “jihad” himself. In response to Rehab asking what everyone’s “jihad” is, Spencer replied “mine is countering your hate & defamation w/ truth…

Romney and the Jews

By Sarah Posner

…s strongly disapprove of his selection of Paul Ryan as his running mate. Here’s the clip about Romney and the Jewish vote: We also discussed Michele Bachmann’s Yom Kippur visit to a Chicago synagogue, why the AJC poll didn’t ask about Jews’ attitudes toward the occupation and more. You can watch the whole thing here. …

Wal-Mart Faces a New Round of Historic Strikes… But Why Now?

By Sarah Jaffe

…to Washington. Warehouse workers at Wal-Mart distribution centers outside Chicago and in Los Angeles have also gone out on strike—and won. The full reinstatement and back pay granted to the workers (averaging $900 for each) was unprecedented, leading one of the strikers to comment, “I think there’s been a hit in Wal-Mart’s armor.” The retail employees are part of the Organization United for Respect at Wal-Mart (or OUR Wal-Mart), an organization…