Saturday, October 31, 2020

Nation with Soul of a Church on Eve of Historic Election: Weaponized Bibles Brandished with Guns as Nuns Choose to Be Photo Props for Trump

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Oliver Laughland and Tom Silverstone, " God and the GOP: Will evangelicals stay loyal to Trump? "  Charles Pierce writes ,  Just i...
Sunday, October 25, 2020

Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne: "In Reality, Evangelicals Did Not Cast Their Vote [for Trump] Despite Their Beliefs, but Because of Them"

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I recently read Kristin Kobes Du Mez's book Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation (NY: ...
Saturday, October 24, 2020

When the Instinctual Response of Christian Communities to a Changing World Is, No!

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Read the responses of a number of bishops and the homophobic sector of Catholic Twitter to the recently released papal statement about civil...
Thursday, October 22, 2020

"Nobody Should Be Thrown Out": Francis's Latest Shock Wave (in Some Circles) re: Same-Sex Civil Unions

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James Alison, " Pope Francis backing same sex unions isn't a surprise. But it's still a big deal " As Jamie Manson tweets ...
Saturday, October 17, 2020

National Catholic Reporter Review of Sarah Posner, Unholy — "Sarah Posner's 'Unholy' implicates Catholics as well as evangelicals"

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Here's a review I wrote of Sarah Posner's Unholy: Why White Evangelicals Worship at the Altar of Donald Trump , which appeared in th...
Monday, October 12, 2020

On the Destructive Pretensions and Posturings of Purists — While So Much Needs to Be Done to Change the World for Better

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It's the militant  atheism that so easily gloms together with the militant anti-Catholicism, both perfectly mirroring militant  Catholic...
Thursday, October 8, 2020

The Current US Election and Spectacularly Failed "Pro-Life" Politics of US Catholic Bishops

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Pew Research Center, 22 July - 4 August 2019 Catholic bishop Tobin of Rhode Island tweeted during last night's debate , "Joe Biden ...