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Pope Benedict’s Blind Spot on Holocaust

By Kevin P Spicer

…admits that he “cannot read all the newspapers and meet with an unlimited number of people. But there are, I believe, few people who have as many meetings as I do. Most important of all to me are my meetings with the bishops from all over the world.” It’s doubtful that the bishops today or in the past have provided the Pope with extensive insight on the historical record of Pius XII. Benedict does offer light on who is helping to influence Pius’s…

Wojnarowicz’s Ant-Covered Jesus: Blasphemy or Religious Art?

By S. Brent Rodriguez Plate

…round New York City, with significant travels throughout Latin America and Europe. Catholic schooling left him scarred, but it is simplistic to suggest he turned against religion. Instead, he sought a more primal, even childlike faith, in touch with the natural world and the bodies of other people. His work in photography, film, and video continually expressed this, even when it became the most confrontational. He was openly gay, and outspoken abo…

News Flash: God Has Revised the Laws of Physics

By Paul Wallace

…you may have noticed the recent flurry of reports about the physicists in Europe who think they’ve caught some rowdy subatomic particles breaking the cosmic speed limit. Scientists at CERN suspect that a flock of neutrinos arrived at their destination 60 nanoseconds earlier than they should have. That may not seem like much time—the blink of an eye is millions of times longer—but for physicists and maybe for us too, it is all the difference in th…

Manhattan Declaration Asks: What If Jesus Had Been Aborted?

By Sarah Posner

…is questionable (would your parents have met?). The post goes on to list a number of world events, inventions, and creations that the writer claims never would have happened if Jesus had been aborted, including: there would have been no Cathedrals in Europe, no Sistine Chapel, and “further, no Vatican at all;” Bach and Mozart wouldn’t have been as awesome as they were; Columbus wouldn’t have discovered America; “the Constitution, the Bill of Right…

“Liberal Nazis”: The Republican Crusade Against NPR

By Paul Harvey

…flecting on his great-grandfather Abraham Reiss, who didn’t make it out of Europe before the real Nazis got to him. He considered further what it meant for him to hear “Nazi” used in reference to his network. That word, Nazi, means something. We are all free to use it as we please. It’s our right, of course. But when its use is stripped of any of its real meaning, I just ask you to remember the story of Abraham Reiss. Lamborn knows better than to…

Inventing Jesus: An Interview with Bart Ehrman

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…neighbor may in fact hold such views. What has been the reaction so far? A number of evangelical Christians who consider me to be the enemy are now cheering me on from the sidelines—and the humanists, agnostics, and atheists who thought I was their friend are now really upset with me. Well, if everyone is angry, you must be doing it right! The thing is, I’ve never understood my writing to be debunking religion—even though a lot of people think th…

World Congress of Families Draws Anti-LGBT Activists to Budapest; More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…n review the status of LGBT people in Cambodia, which “has seen increasing numbers of gays emerging into public life as the country continues to rapidly normalize after three decades of war.” Cambodians have traditionally shunned the gay community, and LGBT practices are often viewed as being against nature and a threat to rebuilding the social order in the aftermath of three decades of war, which obliterated the country’s social fabric. Overcomin…

“I Worship Jesus, Not Mother Earth”: American Christian Exceptionalism and the Paris Withdrawal

By Jacob J. Erickson

…nd theological voices taking global warming seriously in North America and Europe: the water protectors at Standing Rock, “Green Sisters” taking the earth seriously at Genesis Farm, Lutherans demanding an “Eco-Reformation,” theo-ethicist Michael Northcott, process theologian Catherine Keller, Pope Francis, Interfaith Power and Light, and the innumerable others who change lifestyles and organize motivated by their faith, their theological imaginati…

New Study: Islamophobia Common in Catholic Media

By Jordan Denari Duffner

…ave dominated significant portions of American Catholic media, including a number of mainstream Catholic outlets that have elevated the voices of those with affiliations to anti-Muslim groups, touting them as experts on Islam. In addition, prominent Catholic institutions and public figures, including priests, have promoted materials on Islam that depict a Muslim-Christian clash. One of Steve Bannon’s favorite “experts” on Islam is Robert Spencer,…

A Boundary-Busting Memoir of Love, Mental Illness, and Being Muslim in America

By Haroon Moghul

…t happened to, say, the Avari. I get that it’s about the origins of modern Europe, but why does the East have to be such a malicious place? What’s your next book? I’m working on three novels, a proper trilogy, that I can best describe as a cross between science fiction, Bollywood, and alternative history. The first, Americans, takes place in the 21st and 17th centuries, and tells the story of two best friends who get stranded outside each other’s…