Religion Dispatches
The Vatican will be assessing the status of communities of women religious, but the apostolic visitor is the superior general of a conservative, habited order. What does this mean?
Read MoreSure it was nice that Obama gave a shout out to nonbelievers, but the president’s actions during the campaign give pause to the nation’s atheists and agnostics.
Read MoreWhen is an apology not an apology? When it’s just part of a public relations campaign.
Read MoreBenedict decides to rescind the excommunications of four bishops, all of whom are antagonistic toward Judaism, and one of whom is a holocaust-denier.
Read MoreIn a jolly pope-a-gram, Benedict welcomes the new president; the head US Cardinal is not so friendly in his welcome.
Read MoreWarren’s prayer began with all of us, narrowed itself to the Judeo-Christian monotheist, then more narrowly still on the Christian, then more narrowly still on that faith as experienced by Rick Warren himself. A stunning rhetorical achievement.
Read MoreThe outgoing president’s much-vaunted faith may have given religion a bad name.
Read MoreWhile the decision for any individual to abort or not is a delicate and fraught one, the desire for state control women’s bodies comes down to good old fashioned misogyny.
Read MoreThe Portuguese Cardinal’s warning manages to be a cocktail of Islamophobia, racism, sexism, xenophobia…
Read MoreThe door is not just open to Muslim Americans; we are not sitting in the living room; there is a room for us in the house now.
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