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Pierre Teilhard de Chardin’s Legacy of Eugenics and Racism Can’t Be Ignored

By John P. Slattery

…e goals of worship and the whole of the cosmos are “one and the same—divinization, a world of freedom and love.” After he became Pope, Benedict XVI emphasized this cosmic vision in both speeches and homilies, including this one from 2009, where he quotes Teilhard directly: The role of the priesthood is to consecrate the world so that it may become a living host, a liturgy: so that the liturgy may not be something alongside the reality of the world…

Confronting the Abusive Legacy of Native American Boarding Schools

By Philip Arnold

…schools. Most of these schools closed in the 1970 and ’80s, after traumatizing children for decades. With mounting pressure from the adoption of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in September 2007, there may be growing opportunities for reconciliation. Recently the Prime Ministers of Australia and Canada have apologized to the indigenous people affected by the legacy of boarding schools in their nations. The United States lag…

Catholic Bishops to Use Mass to Lobby Against Health Care?

By Frances Kissling

…shioners to pray for this effort as well. More information can be found at www.usccb.org/healthcare. To be announced at all Masses on the weekend when the Bulletin Insert is distributed: Congress is preparing to debate health care reform legislation. The Catholic bishops of the United States strongly support genuine health care reform that protects the life and dignity of all, from the moment of conception until natural death. However, all curre…

8 Great Hanukkah Clips from TV

By Michael J. Altman

…e Daily Show with Jon Stewart offers its best Hanukah moments: The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c Exclusive – Best Hanukkah Moments Mash-up www.thedailyshow.com Daily Show Full Episodes Political Humor The Daily Show on Facebook …

True or False: Less Religion Means Greater Diversity?

By Elizabeth Drescher

…Current Population Survey (CPS) Database, accessed Feb. 6, 2014 at http://www.census.gov/cps/. Population sums shown are in thousands.] What this means in raw numbers is that the 30% of Millennials who are religiously unaffiliated (15.86 million) are a somewhat smaller group than the 22% of GenXers (17.95 million) who are unaffiliated. Further, in terms of percentages, twice as many 18 to 29 year olds (31%) as 50-64 year olds (11%) is unaffiliate…

The New God-Fearers (FKA “The Nones”) and Where to Find Them

By Carlos Wilton

…e her (not to mention their baptized but unchurched children), remains a puzzle that keeps parsonage lamps and computer screens burning late into the night. Curiously, the New Testament offers a framework for understanding today’s Nones. Paul’s travelogue in the Acts of the Apostles contains this line, recounting his visit to Philippi: “On the Sabbath day we went outside the gate by the river, where we supposed there was a place of prayer; and we…

AP: “Bush: Soldiers Live Out Gospel”

By Ira Chernus

…been studying presidential speeches for a long time, I impulsively ran to www.whitehouse.gov to get the full text, which the president read as his weekly radio address on the day before Easter. I don’t know how many people actually listen to these short weekly radio addresses. My hunch is that it’s more than those of us sheltered in university-town enclaves might think. Here’s a bit of what Bush said: Easter is a time when we “pause to remember a…

Leahy’s Immigration Provision Sows Sex Panic Among Key Religious Groups

By Peter Laarman

…arried – five minutes ago” couples. Sixteen other countries already recognize same-sex couples for immigration purposes, including Australia, Brazil, France, Germany, Israel, South Africa, Sweden, and the UK. It is estimated that 36,000 U.S.-based couples would be able to stay together if Leahy’s provision were enacted. If there is no change in the law, the non-citizen partner in these couples will eventually need to leave, or else the U.S. citize…

Jim Wallis Rejects 1996 Pro-Life Declaration

By Sarah Posner

…one. That led Pavlischek to ask, “is Jim Wallis pro-choice?” Our Dan Schultz asked the same thing, as did Mark Silk over at Spiritual Politics. That’s what led me to ask Wallis to answer that question. And he doesn’t really say. But his answer about “tragic and desperate” choices evokes not a pro-choice position but, indeed, a variety of common groundism that women need moral help in making the “right” choices. That’s the difference between the “c…

Religion as a Front for Tyranny: A Roundtable on the Timeliness of Hulu’s “The Handmaid’s Tale”

By Anita Little

…ore the Hulu series began. Since the U.S. presidential election, Sarah Kendzior, who studies authoritarian regimes, has encouraged people to pay attention to changes that are taking place. She recommends even taking notes in order to remember how things used to be and to recognize the things that are not normal. It is possible that some Americans may become increasingly numb and acclimate to a “New Normal.” Yet, it is also possible that more peopl…