Pope Francis is Talking, But Is Anyone Listening?
For all the ink that has been spilled in the last few years over the…
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“That Guy In Rome”: A Catholic Town in Idaho Where The Pope is a Heretic
Last December, at the end of his tour of Africa, Pope Francis answered a question…
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Will “Religious Freedom” Be the Issue That Finally Unites the Religious Right?
It is by now widely accepted that the second half of the 20th century witnessed…
Read MoreWho Are the Waldensians and Why Did the Pope Ask for Their Forgiveness?
Avenge, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones/Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold……
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The Sacred and the Dead: Ten Writers on the End of an American Adventure
Jerry Garcia said once that he didn’t care much for the Western God—but that didn’t…
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The Sacred and the Dead: Three Ways to American Beauty
One sentence, spoken by an anonymous “usher” to a maverick producer who then riffed to boisterous…
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The Benedict Opt-Out: Why Christian Self-Isolation Won’t Work
In a much talked-about Op-Ed in Time last week in the wake of the Supreme Court’s…
Read MoreIgnoring the Pope on Climate Change is Not Like Using Contraception
The encyclical is finally here. Laudato si was officially released today and has already produced a tremendous…
Read MoreWhat Irish Marriage Vote Means for Catholic Church; The Lonely Fight for Equality in Belize; Progress and Backlash in Tunisia; Global LGBT Recap
The big news of the week was Irish voters’ overwhelming “yes” vote on a…
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What the Numbers Don’t Tell Us: Religion Is a Lived, Shifting Experience
Having spent most of the last two years in conversation with Nones, seekers, doubters, and…
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