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Fr. John Dear, Dismissed from Jesuits: “It Is So Strange to Be Hated by So Many Church Leaders”

By Megan Sweas

…by so many church leaders. However, I just had an incredible few weeks in South Africa. I met a lot of great people, saw a lot, and learned a lot about the thousands who gave their lives to struggle against apartheid. I spent a great day with Archbishop Tutu, who is one of my heroes and my friend—that is an enormous blessing. And I have met all the greatest saints. My life has been so unusual, from time in jail and traveling war zones to being wi…

Global LGBT Recap: Nigeria Jails Gays, Russian Orthodox Spox Calls for Criminalization Referendum

By Peter Montgomery

…ines, up to 14 days in jail, and deportation. The law makes it a crime to promote LGBT equality in public, but lacks concrete legal definitions for key terms. Russian authorities have indicated a broad interpretation of what constitutes “LGBT propaganda,” and provided vague guidance as to which actions will be interpreted by authorities as “LGBT propaganda.” LGBT travelers should review the State Department’s LGBT Travel Information page. Sen…

Patron Saint of AIDS/HIV To Be Canonized

By Susan Henking

…uch of the social and health infrastructure across significant portions of Africa. To reject widely recognized prevention strategies, not to mention contraception, places lives at risk. That was then, this is now, you say? No. In his current role, Pope Benedict’s views remain deeply problematic. And yet, on October 11, 2009, the Catholic Church, led by this same Pope Benedict, will canonize a man some have called the patron saint of people with AI…

To Let It Go and So To Find A Way: U2, (A)Live with Grief and Grace

By Cathleen Falsani

…stians (and others) to respond to the then-pandemic of AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa. We’ve had many conversations, publicly and privately, over the years about our shared Christian faith. From their earliest days as a band, U2 has sung about wrestling with angels, the magnificent and mystical, God the Father, the Divine Feminine (who moves in mysterious ways). They’ve confessed their sins, aired their doubts, celebrated amazing grace, and mourned th…

The Jersey Shores of Tripoli: MTV and Arab Revolution

By Haroon Moghul

…Russia’s European navy to show up (it took many months to navigate around Africa), and then, once that showed up, they sunk all of that, too. People across the Middle East found inspiration in a non-white, non-Christian, non-European power, thinking: If they can do it, why can’t we? The tyranny of low expectations, of longstanding assumptions of inherent cultural inferiority, was shaken, but not overthrown. During today’s Arab revolutions, we hea…

Dylann Roof Was Wrong: The Race War Isn’t Coming, It’s Here

By Willie James Jennings

…the very first old world (proto-European) citizen stepped on the shores of Africa and the Americas and other soon-to-be-colonized places and said, “God has given this land and these people to me. This is mine.” The belief in God-given possession flows like a vampire virus through the veins of this country. We eagerly draw lifeblood from as much of the world as possible, in land, natural resources, and cheap labor. What does it mean to be born in a…

Pope Francis Dismisses Condoms in AIDS Fight

By Patricia Miller

…nst condoms and actively discourage their use. In June, 45 bishops from 40 African countries signed the Common Declaration of the Bishops of Africa and Madagascar, which called the “billions of dollars allotted to the production and distribution of condoms” a “scandal.” Last year, the Ghana Catholic Bishops’ Conference deplored the provision of condoms by international aid organizations, calling it “a radical and faceless culture of death which pr…

Gingrich on Obama’s “Kenyan, Anti-Colonial Behavior” and “American Exceptionalism”

By Sarah Posner

…d, in Hawaii, Indonesia and Pakistan, with multiple subsequent journeys to Africa. Because, as we all know, Hawaii isn’t America? Apparently not. And Obama doesn’t understand the founders’ intentions: A good way to discern what motivates Obama is to ask a simple question: What is his dream? Is it the American dream? Is it Martin Luther King’s dream? Or something else? It is certainly not the American dream as conceived by the founders. They believ…

Ultra Orthodox Murder-Suicide Makes Headlines

By Shalom Goldman

…s. Also living in Israel proper are 500,000 so-called “guest workers” from Africa, Asia, and Eastern Europe. Outside of “Israel proper” lie the territories (variously modified with the adjectives “liberated,” “occupied,” or “administered”). In these territories (the Golan Heights, the West Bank, the Gaza Strip), Israel has varying degrees of control over the Palestinian population (approximately 3.5 million people) and over the Jewish settler popu…

Eat, Pray, Trash: What the Critics Don’t See

By Ben Brazil

…industrializing West has become increasingly “inauthentic,” Latin America, Africa, and (especially) Asia have been deemed “authentic.” Dean MacCannell noticed just this projected sort of authenticity in his 1976 The Tourist: A New Theory of the Leisure Class. But even before the Beatles went to India, elite Westerners had begun juxtaposing the “spiritual” East to the “materialist” West, a move that (as post-colonial critics have pointed out) proje…