Religion Dispatches
Surrounded by those she had been taught to “despise,” she began to question these prejudices that had been instilled through the institutional Church and seek out the human rights model laid out in the Gospel….
Read MoreAs in the case of gay Arabic translators, the US military debilitates itself by refusing qualified candidates…
Read MoreFather Bourgeois has frequently articulated the notion that violence—whether physical, emotional, spiritual, economic, or structural—is always “wrong and immoral.”
Read MoreWhat’s notable here isn’t just the broadness of the definition of abortion and other ”objectionable activities,” but the corresponding broadness of the definition of health care entities that would be covered under the new proposal…
Read MoreOn August 17, India’s Catholic Bishops take a side in the battle over women’s ordination arguing that like men, women are ‘very good’ in the eyes of God.
Read MoreA chain of Christian bookstores pulls the latest issue of Gospel Today from its shelves. Whatever could be so hideous?
Read MoreOn the occasion of the latest “Love Won Out” conference, a story of love winning out. But not that way.
Read MoreBreaking with the American Medical Association’s longstanding definition of pregnancy, Bush’s HHS is spreading ideology, not science…
Read MoreFrom “Ex Gay Is Ok” buttons to denigrating Senators Pelosi, Clinton and Boxer, who are not like the “American women that we know”; a personal reflection on the Values Voters Summit…
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California’s Proposition 8 would overturn the state’s Supreme Court decision to allow same-sex marriage — right wing religious groups are girding for the battle they are calling “the Armageddon of the culture war.”…
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