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“Make The Mass Latin Again”: The Pope Francis Backlash Comes Home

By Kaya Oakes

…in the number of seminarians in formation, and there are currently only 93 students enrolled. The Sulpicians were informed in October of last year “that we are no longer invited to provide Sulpician administrative leadership to St Patrick’s,” and the rector, Fr. James McKearney, was forced to resign, in a decision that “just came out of the blue for reasons that are still not clear.” Cordileone appointed new seminary staff from among the higher up…

Let’s Stop Calling Rape and Harassment by Bikram Yoga Founder Just Another “Guru Scandal”

By Andrea R. Jain

…urus have been outed as sexually active, usually with young, white, female students. These scandals have left the American public thinking the “guru model” is problematic for its inherently undemocratic tendencies, suspecting the model is an extreme form of authoritarianism that inevitably leads to demise. In 1993, for example, Joel Kramer and Diana Alstad warned against the dangers of the guru-disciple relationship, suggesting it displays “the se…

Who Would Jesus Marry?

By Elizabeth Drescher

…s to the Democratic National Convention—I’ve been working on ways to guide students over rocky terrain. Into that fraught landscape came the news earlier this week that Karen L. King, a Harvard Divinity School church historian and expert on the controversial biblical figure, Mary Magdalene, had been given access to a papyrus fragment held by a private collector. The fragment includes the provocative phrases, “Jesus said to them, ‘My wife…’” and “……

Sara Hurwitz’s ‘Rabba’ Title Sparks Orthodox Jewish Condemnation

By Rachel Barenblat

…1985. As of 2008, according to the Boston-based Jewish Advocate, women outnumber men in liberal rabbinic schools. But in the Orthodox world, ordaining women remains a radical move; perhaps because Orthodoxy is a culture in which men and women assume divergent gender roles in largely separate social spheres. The mainstream Orthodox viewpoint holds that God created men and women to be different according to divine purpose. (For an insider’s perspec…

“Traditional values.” Tom DeLay. Jesus loves low, low prices! Just another day in Texas.

By Sarah Posner

…” as they do “to support a gender and sexuality center or other center for students focused on gay, lesbian, homosexual, bisexual, pansexual, transsexual, transgender, gender questioning, or other gender identity issues.” Christian is also the president of the Texas Conservative Coalition (its slogan is “winning the fight, building the future,” proving again, I suppose, that conservatives are out to win fights and progressives are out to win somet…

Religious Youth Activists Take to Hill for Comprehensive Sex Education

By Sarah Posner

…coalition with Advocates for Youth, Catholics for Choice, Choice USA, Law Students for Reproductive Justice, NARAL Pro-Choice America, Planned Parenthood, SIECUS, and the Sierra Club to lobby Congress to end funding of abstinence-only programs and fund comprehensive sex education. As part of its Sex Ed Month of Action, SYRF is encouraging activists to call their representatives on the Hill today. On the Senate side in particular, an amendment to…

Christian Schools Invoke Religious Liberty to Reopen Despite Warnings of Health Experts

By Chrissy Stroop

…raw attention to the ways that conservative parochial schools indoctrinate students in bigotry and “alternative facts.” Indeed, one nine-year-old student at Circle Christian School in the affluent Orlando suburb of Winter Park, Florida, tested positive for COVID-19 last week. As a result, the school has shifted to online instruction only until August 24, which is more than two weeks from when the boy tested positive. But while this move may seem r…

Santorum from the Religion Angle

By Sarah Posner

…re Law Center tried to make the argument that federal law recommended that students learn alternatives to evolution such as the teaching of intelligent design. The decision invalidating the teaching of intelligent design in public schoools came down while Santorum was fighting to retain his Senate seat. More the politician than the uncompromising conservative he claims to be to GOP primary voters, Santorum promptly denounced intelligent design. (H…

Jews and Christians for Santorum?

By Sarah Posner

…my of Christians and America. Health care reform, gays, Muslim high school students, secularists, and yes, Mormons, are also on his list. Perusing my inbox, a sampling: “Obama’s Fraudulent Faith Just Unmasked.” “Obama’s Economic Policy Directly Opposes the Bible.” “Rick Santorum is Right: Satan Has Targeted America.” “Stand Strong: Stop the Intimidation Today.” “Twisted Scripture: Overcoming the Lies of Homosexuality.” “URGENT: Stop Sharia Law in…

“We (some of) the People” Florida Governor Rick Scott and the Tea Party

By Julie Ingersoll

…y last minute two school buses pulled up and the bandstand was filled with students from The Villages Charter School. The governor’s staffers handed the students signs that read, “No to Earmarks” and “Thank You Governor Scott” that were designed to appear handmade. When the mayor of The Villages opened the ceremony and welcomed everyone saying, “the signing of the budget is an exercise in representative democracy and we’re happy to have it right h…