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Doubting Obama: A Response to Harper’s and Simon Critchley

By Linell Cady

…and cultural formations, respectful but distant. Obama’s decision to join Chicago’s Trinity United Church of Christ was driven by his growing recognition of the importance of a shared community of faith, a social vehicle to give it some structure and public expression. Despite this commitment, Critchley senses a continued aloofness that suggests he has not really solved his mother’s dilemma and its attendant “sense of loneliness, doubt, and aband…

Paul Ryan: I Reject Ayn Rand, She’s an Atheist!

By Sarah Posner

…I enjoyed them,” Ryan says. “They spurred an interest in economics, in the Chicago School and Milton Friedman,” a subject he eventually studied as an undergraduate at Miami University in Ohio. “But it’s a big stretch to suggest that a person is therefore an Objectivist.” “I reject her philosophy,” Ryan says firmly. “It’s an atheist philosophy. It reduces human interactions down to mere contracts and it is antithetical to my worldview. If somebody…

Sex and the Seminary: Wake Up and Smell the Incense

By Mary E. Hunt

…e progressive ones that are working on these matters already, schools like Chicago Theological Seminary, Jewish Theological Seminary, Pacific School of Religion, Harvard, Yale, Union, and the like. The ones I really worry about are the rest—including most Catholic seminaries—that have yet to admit the need for sex education. They simply don’t offer Birds and Bees 101, much less theological reflection on how to think about sex religiously and certa…

Comparing Gender Transition and Surrogacy to War and Human Trafficking, Vatican’s ‘Dignitas Infinita’ is an Intellectually Embarrassing and Harmful Mess

By Mary E. Hunt

…s moral reflection is needed. This is not it. The rest of the document, 66 numbered paragraphs, includes an introduction to the notion of human dignity which for the Vatican boils down to Natural Law, and a history of the concept of human rights as it has emerged in Catholicism and some global platforms. The second half is a catalog of what are considered by the writers to be “grave violations” of human dignity: poverty, war, injustice to migrants…

Bishops vs. Nuns: Who Spoke for God in 2010?

By Eugene McMullan

…ence of Catholic Bishops, outgoing President Cardinal Francis E. George of Chicago said that the Catholic debate over health care reform, in which nuns opposed the bishops, had caused “wounds to the church’s unity,” while raising the question of “who speaks for the Catholic Church.” Only the bishops, he said, “speak for the Church in matters of faith and in moral issues and the laws surrounding them.” Everything else is just “opinion.” But what is…

Vatican’s ‘Dumbed Down Version of an Old Argument’ on Gender Can’t Stop Changes in Catholicism

By Mary E. Hunt

…ndings of gender, sex, and how good people live their lives. University of Chicago legal scholar Mary Anne Case lays out the contours of the Vatican’s long and increasingly damaging campaign in a well-researched, complex, and convincing article, “Trans Formations in the Vatican’s War on ‘Gender Ideology’”. She explores “…the Vatican’s decades-long, worldwide, multifront war on what it has come to call ‘gender ideology’ from its very recent incarna…

US Catholic Bishops Elect a Culture Warrior

By Marian Ronan

…d in the very church where we were singing vespers. And while Dolan said a number of things about Day in his sermon, including a brief mention of her pacifism, what he stressed above all was Dorothy Day’s loyalty to the Church. She was a faithful Catholic. He didn’t use the word obedient, exactly, but clearly that’s what he was getting at. Now there can be no doubt that Dorothy Day was a faithful Catholic; she did not spend a lot of time attacking…

New Gallup Poll on Religion in Election Has Problems

By Sarah Posner

…tant Christian, and was a member of the Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, while Romney is a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Despite Protestants’ broad religious connection to Obama, they support Romney over Obama by a five-point margin in the April 19-23 tracking aggregate.” It’s silly for Gallup on the one hand to declare that “very religious” Protestants are the “functional equivalent” of evangelicals (which…

Gospel and Soul Lose a King and Queen

By Anthea Butler

…sic. Albertina Walker, the “queen of Gospel” passed away on October 8th in Chicago, and Bishop “King” Solomon Burke, native of Philadelphia, passed away on October 10 at Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport. The contribution of both Walker and Burke to the development of gospel music and performance is undeniable. Walker’s good friend, Mahalia Jackson, encouraged her to go on the road and quit singing background for her. Walker took the advice, creating a…

The Most Ominous Promises Jeff Sessions Just Made to ADF Attorneys

By Sunnivie Brydum

…, explained Anthony Kreis, an attorney and visiting assistant professor at Chicago-Kent College of Law, who specializes in unpacking “religious freedom” laws as they impact LGBT Americans. There’s nothing outright improper about Sessions signaling his fondness for the attorneys representing a client seeking to undermine the state of nationwide marriage equality and equal access for LGBT people, but it certainly doesn’t bode well for those LGBT peo…