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Union Busting for God: Catholic Colleges Invoke “Religious Freedom” to Violate Catholic Teaching

By Kaya Oakes

…a who teach without benefits or security of employment, often at the same pitiful wages that drove Vojtko to sleep in her office while she battled cancer. While Duquesne faced national criticism after Vojtko’s death, less discussed was the fact that, as a Catholic college run by the Spiritan religious order, Duquesne’s mission statement, which includes “profound concern for moral and spiritual values,” appears not to extend to its contingent facul…

Raelians’ “Clitoraid” Met With Suspicion in Burkina Faso

By Joseph Laycock

…own a “pleasure hospital” created by Clitoraid—a charity founded by the religious movement Raelianism for the purpose of reversing female circumcision. Like the Raelians’s previous initiative Clonaid, Clitoraid has been mired in controversy since it began. Opponents of Clitoraid claim the project exploits the issue of female circumcision to gain financial contributions and converts and that it frames the issue in terms of sexual pleasure rather th…

Does Religion Condemn Homosexuality?

By Michael Bronski

…in several countries, including Iran and Saudi Arabia. In early 2012, a Shiite militia group in Iraq—where homosexuality is not illegal—tortured and murdered more than forty men thought to be homosexual. The murders were denounced by Iraqi human rights groups as well as by international LGBT activists. The Iraqi government did not condemn or even address the murders. All this may seem shocking, but, sadly, the criminalization and severe legal pun…

Anti-Gay Violence Rages in Gambia; Conservative ‘Complementarity’ Confab; Coming Out in Iraq Can Be Death Sentence; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ost certainly under-reports the actual figure. In the US, the National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs reported earlier this year that, based on data collected from 13 states and Puerto Rico, almost three-quarters of LGBTQ homicides in 2013 were transgender women, more than two-thirds trans women of color. In Wales, Liberal Democrats marked Transgender Awareness Week by leading a debate in the Welsh Assembly on issues faced by trans people. Ga…

7 Women Scholars On the Gender Divide in Religious Studies, the Power of Mentors, and Leading While Female

By Rebecca Barrett-Fox

…ultural critic Benjamin DeMott, in which I had to write a paper on Richard III that explained his behavior through his own eyes. It was the hardest thing I’ve ever done, to try to put myself into the psyche of such a vile character. It led me to explore ways of understanding the world that I never would have reached on my own. And ultimately, it made me a historian with a greater capacity to imagine alternative ways of being. That, of course, is o…

‘My Name is Legion’: Sources and Forces of White Supremacy in the U.S.

By R. Drew Smith

…lor—as a relatively marginal or “extremist” dimension of American socio-religious culture. I argue instead that white supremacy is a much more central part of American socio-religious culture than generally acknowledged and that its investigation cannot be limited to “lone wolf” racists such as the 21 year-old in Charleston—nor confined merely to networks of explicit white supremacist organizations and activists. Rather, behind the individually em…

Religious Leaders Need ‘Empty the Pews’ Which Chronicles the Darker Side of the ‘Nones’ Phenomenon

By Kaya Oakes

In 2020, the rise of the so-called religious “Nones”—those who claim no religious affiliation—has evolved from a story of interest to a small niche of readers into an entire genre on the religion beat. While the term None has some usefulness as a blanket descriptor, we are beginning to understand that most individual stories about religious disaffiliation are far more complicated than just checking “none of the above” on a survey. Stories about t…

Francis Must Make Changes to Have a Real Effect

By Patricia Miller

…in tune with the needs of Catholics in the pews than many of the John Paul II appointees who still dominate the bishops’ conference. That’s fair enough. But as I said, that’s a long way off and Gallicho doesn’t offer any data to support his opinion. He goes on to suggest that disillusionment with the church in the wake of Humanae Vitae is some pet issue of mine and not, as Garry Wills called it “the most crippling, puzzling blow to organized Catho…

The Vatican v. Protestant Free Thinkers

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…with some care, by reminding us, first, of some important dates. Pope Paul III established the modern Inquisition in 1542; it was designed to deal with persons, primarily those who evidenced what was deemed to be a willful adherence to ideas contradicted by Catholic Orthodoxy. This language is instructive, because faith was understood to be partly an act of will in the Early Modern period. Thus, Protestant kinds of free thinking amounted, in the C…

After More Mass Shootings It’s Time to Call Out White Supremacy in the Pews

By Peter Laarman

…arvin Gaye’s “What’s Going On?” do the talking for him. Hearing Gaye’s exquisite plaintive voice allowed me to weep openly. Weep for a country that seems irredeemably lost in so many ways, a country where, in the words of Paul Simon’s equally haunting “American Tune”: I don’t know a soul who’s not been battered I don’t have a friend who feels at ease I don’t know a dream that’s not been shattered or driven to its knees The thing is, we do know wha…