If There’s any Retaliation at Next Month’s EuroPride Festival in Serbia it’s Likely to Have Orthodox Clerical Blessing
EuroPride is scheduled to take place in the Serbian capital of Belgrade next month. It’s…
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Orthodox Church’s Authoritarian Anti-LGBTQ Statement Poses Serious Threat to Academic Freedom
As discussed earlier this week on RD, the Orthodox Church in America recently released an…
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Laugh at Tucker Carlson’s Tanning Testicles Doc All You Want, But the Bulging Muscles and Potent Sperm Imagery is a Fascist Dream
Sculpted, sweating, bare torsos doing push-ups, bulging muscles, two scantily-clad men locked in a fight—they,…
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In His ‘Forgiveness Day’ Sermon — a Slightly More Sophisticated ‘GloboHomo’ Rant — Kirill Lays Out an Authoritarian Vision in Which His Version of God Might Dominate and Rule the Human Race
Since the start of the war in Ukraine, Patriarch Kirill, the leader of the Russian…
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Is the Growing Anti-Pope ‘Rad-Trad’ Community Poised to Become ‘Qatholics’? History Isn’t Encouraging
On Halloween, Rhode Island police announced that they had arrested Father James Jackson, the pastor…
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Douthat’s Criticism of Pope’s Restriction of Latin Mass Is Fascinating; It’s Also Ahistorical and Has Been Used Before
In a recent opinion piece in the New York Times, fellow Catholic Ross Douthat criticized…
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The Left Behind: Why Are White American Christians So Racist?
Robert Jones, founder of the Public Religion Research Institute, has been doing the op-ed thing…
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The Most Important Religious Category of the Primaries, the Non-Religious, Doesn’t Break Down as Cleanly as You Think
It’s been noted that Bernie Sanders’ youth revolution failed him on Super Tuesday. It’s not…
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Struggling With the Legacy of Harold Bloom, Brilliant but Deeply Flawed Critic (1930-2019)
For all that Bloom got wrong about theory and the state of the discipline, he was correct in his contention that the sometimes godlessness of the field was a critical detriment, and that ‘A nation obsessed with religion rather desperately needs a religious criticism.’
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The Ex-KKK Priest and the Subtle Terrorism of the Anti-Abortion Movement
Largely lost in the coverage of the Rev. William Aitcheson, the priest serving in a…
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