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What The Church Needs More Than a ‘Good Pope’

By Mary E. Hunt

…e years to parse. Early headlines heralding a new moment in church history are largely correct, but not necessarily for the reasons cited. While it is true that Pope Francis has downplayed some of the hot button issues: “abortion, gay marriage and the use of contraceptive methods…it is not necessary to talk about these issues all the time,” it’s also true that in no way did he disavow them: “The teaching of the church, for that matter, is clear an…

Is Religious Liberty Whatever Anyone Says It Is?

By Patricia Miller

…sponsibility for providing contraceptives back to the insurer. Clement compared requiring the Little Sisters to notify the government of their intention to opt-out of the mandate to taking over a room in one of their nursing homes and running a Title X birth control clinic out of it. Kennedy appeared to be swayed by the argument that the accommodation was not the least burdensome means of achieving the government’s objective of providing women wit…

Cruz Brings GOP Nomination into the Toilet

By Patricia Miller

…to make sure that no one misses his point that the country’s little girls are in clear and present danger. His comments follow Trump’s shrug-off of the transgender restroom controversy following North Carolina’s passage of a law that says people must use the bathroom that corresponds to the sex on their birth certificate. Trump said that allowing transgender individuals to use the bathroom of their choice hadn’t caused any problems to date and th…

Why Trump’s Religious Liberty Order is “a Whole Lot of Nothing”

By Sunnivie Brydum

…approach toward enforcing the Johnson Amendment,” said Kreis. “It’s been particularly lax in terms of allowing religious nonprofits to engage in non-cost political activities. […] The concern, I think, has been more in terms of spending money. We don’t want folks to donate money to nonprofits, then have those monies in turn be used for electioneering purposes. That’s really what we don’t want.” Trump’s latest executive order could send a signal t…

What’s Behind Trump’s “Impossibly Stupid” Roll Back of Contraception Mandate

By Daniel Schultz

…party. As Paul Waldman points out, the contraceptive mandate is quite popular, with nearly 70% approval in one poll, including a majority of Republicans. The ACA itself is somewhat less popular, but has been gaining strength ever since the GOP-led Congress started taking whacks at it with a fire axe earlier this year. Which leaves the question: what the hell are they doing? This makes little political sense. Again, Waldman’s got the best explanati…

Can You Be Liberal and Catholic?

By Patricia Miller

…of coverage of liberal religious voices in the media raises questions that are particularly pertinent to coverage of the Catholic Church. Case in point, my recent post about the National Coalition of American Nuns. I found it interesting that an established group of progressive nuns, whose work has in the past received coverage by the New York Times and the National Catholic Reporter, announces their support for contraceptive access under the Affo…

The Devil is in the Details

By Amina Wadud

…packing not quite final until the last day, and then I’ll be off. I even start wearing clothes I know I won’t be taking, so I don’t have to worry that my last laundry is missing something I need there, because I’m still wearing it over here. The other thing is making amends with my children. All week I’ve been trying to keep my notes generated about this that and the other. It’s kinda hard when you are also excited about this trip and when you con…

The American Media’s Longterm Ambivalence About the Papacy

By Peter Manseau

…al distinction of being the first to depict an American churchman (George Cardinal Mundelein, archbishop of Chicago) and the first to include color in the form of an eye-catching orange bar down the left side of the page. With such covers, which included three others cardinals and two additional images of the pope in the magazine’s first fifteen years, Time put faces to the Catholic hierarchy as never before. Other publications of the day often fe…

Welcome to the Shari’ah Conspiracy Theory Industry

By Sarah Posner

…ith shari’ah law. That they even point to shari’ah, says Lena Salaymeh, a Harvard-trained lawyer now working on her doctorate in Islamic legal history at Berkeley, is evidence of their ignorance about Islamic law, politics, and culture. “There’s a cottage industry in the West of people who pretend to be experts on Islam, who are getting a lot of time in the media,” Salaymeh points out. “It wouldn’t pass in any other context that you would get peop…

When God and Gender Mix: New Book Examines the Southern Holiness Movement

By Colin Chapell

…aid, Gail Bederman’s Manliness & Civilization and Matthew Frye Jacobson’s Barbarian Virtues are two of the most influential books for me, so I’d have loved to have written those! What’s your next book? I’m in the early stages of my next project, exploring how Holiness adherents understood and demonstrated their identity as sanctified individuals and as part of a sanctified community. For some of this, I will be looking at the connections they made…