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Supernatural Drama ‘Evil’ Provides No Easy Answers to Questions of Faith, Reason, and the Nature of Evil

By Michael F. Pettinger

…his is due in no small part to scandals over clerical sexual abuse and the high-level coverups. Shame and humiliation have become part of contemporary Catholic life and pose a more obvious threat to the real-life Catholic Church than an army of demons or a secret society. Given that corruption in the Church isn’t fantasy, even those who remain faithful have to ask “why stay?” Indeed, many do not. Asked if she’s Catholic, Bouchard responds “not any…

“De-Ratzingerization” Continues as Pope Francis Removes Conservative Cardinal Burke

By Patricia Miller

…er, after all, of the smaller and purer church, who appointed Burke to the high court in a clear signal of his preference for doctrinal purity and rigidity.) Combined with a number of other lower-level curial promotions and demotions—including the firing of a bishop accused of protecting a priest suspected of sexually abusing a child—conservatives are complaining of the de-Ratzingerization of the Vatican (which does sound an awful lot like the fum…

Krapp’s Last Tweet: The Rise (and Fall?) of Privilege in the Digital Economy

By Kevin Healey

…ward pressure that social media places on the quality of online content, a number of news articles did manage to connect the dots between Ferguson and the discriminatory housing policies put in place after World War II. As I have argued before, new technologies tend to augment existing systems of privilege. Yet there is reason to hope that digital media may yet catalyze a more just future. Dear Prudence Before jumping from his capsule, with all ey…

Catholic Cardinal Slams Jesuit’s Bridge-Building Book; and More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…er, president of the Liberal Party, are supporting marriage equality. From SkyNews: Mr Greiner highlighted that no one in the government is advocating for rights to be taken away from institutions that teach a ‘traditional’ view of marriage. ‘I think it ought to be clear that in those situations that have been put up, aged care homes and church schools, they should be allowed to act in accordance to their religious beliefs,’ he said. ‘I don’t thin…

The Anxiety of White Christian America: A Poll

By Daniel Schultz

…in ten white Catholics (60%) and white mainline Protestants (59%) say the number of immigrants coming to the U.S. from Muslim countries is either too high or should be stopped. Fewer than four in ten black Protestants (39%), Hispanic Catholics (37%), and religiously unaffiliated Americans (34%), and fewer than one-quarter (23%) of non-Christians echo this sentiment. Same when talking about banning Syrian refugees or temporarily barring Muslim imm…

Pornographic War Gazing: Why We Don’t Look Away

By Daniel Martin Varisco

…games to action films and thriller novels we not only consume wars; we get high from seeing the dark side played out. The Glittering Sword is Whet Jonathan Edwards’ timeless sermon, Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God still resonates, even if God is now left out of the equation in the national media. Imagine the adrenaline boost listening to Rev. Edwards on that July 4, 1741 day, when his words rang out from the pulpit: “The wrath of God burns ag…

With Kurdish Genocide a Real Danger, How Ethical Was Mattis’ Resignation?

By Ivan Strenski

…orresponding “right” to have a secretary of defense agreeably “aligned” to high criminality? Someone like Mattis may have imagined that his quiet resignation would save both his honor and conscience. But such conventionally dignified resignation may have put both at risk. Honorable exits from malevolent chains of command often only clear the way for craven careerists eager to “align with” those very malign policies at issue. In extreme cases, if r…

Innocuous SCOTUS Ruling Opens Door For Discriminatory Religious Institutions to Access Public Funds

By Sunnivie Brydum

…o secular groups equally available to religious groups “raises an enormous number of church-state questions,” Platt added. “And it really puts the state into a very tenuous position, in terms of other potential Establishment Clause violations.” That was essentially the argument advanced by Missouri’s former solicitor general (who argued the case from a position that Missouri’s new governor officially abandoned). But the argument didn’t seem to win…

Apocalyptic Rhetoric at Moms for Liberty Summit Illustrates Political Challenge of 2024

By Chrissy Stroop

…ng babies”—thereby condemning the “babies” to hell, according to one of my high school Bible teachers. The ideas of national decline and possible redemption in which we could play a role imbued our mostly prosaic lives with apocalyptic significance, with all the attendant feelings of anxiety and superiority that thinking brought us. It was our job to “stand for God and His Word”—yes, they made us capitalize the deity’s invariably male pronouns and…

Joe Lieberman: Romney Surrogate?

By Joanna Brooks

…t about the safest route Romney could take on religion. And it’s a sort of high road non-response to the button-pushing we saw last week from high-profile writers Christopher Hitchens and Maureen Dowd, who turned her New York Times column over to Bill Maher, perhaps the most visceral opponent of religion (and especially Mormonism) in the American media today. All of this presages a year ahead in which there will be two parallel channels of nationa…