Showing posts with label Catholics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Catholics. Show all posts
Tuesday, January 17, 2023

The U.S. Has a White Christian Problem, and It's Imperiling American Democracy: My Commentary on New PRRI Report re: American Attitudes Towards Immigrants

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Today, Public Religion Research Group (PRRI) published results of a study it has just done entitled " Are Immigrants a Threat? Most Ame...
Wednesday, November 9, 2022

Yesterday's Vote and What It Tells Us About Americans and Abortion: Whither U.S. Catholic Leaders Now?

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PRRI, 2022 American Values  Survey As Oriana Gonzalez reports , not only did voters in Michigan, California, and Vermont just vote  for cons...
Friday, November 6, 2020

Snapshots of Intersection of Religion and Politics, American Style, as Indicators Point to Biden Win

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Moi on Twitter, pointing to an AP Report by Elana Schor and David Crary, 6 November On this day when the worm may be turning (if at sloth...
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, July 13, 2020

News Commentary in Time of Plague: 43 Pages of Obituaries in Houston Today (and the Role Many US Christians Are Playing in the Pandemic)

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OUR LOCAL PAPER: The Houston Chronicle obituary section was 43 pages today. Let that sink in. — Rogelio Garcia Lawyer (@LawyerRogelio...
Sunday, June 14, 2020

"As the Nation Grapples with Demographic Changes and the Legacy of Racism, Christianity's Role as a Cornerstone of White Supremacy Has Been Largely Overlooked"

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Germany confronted its racist legacy. Britain and the US must do the same | Susan Neiman https://t.co/VrmrtGM2x2 We cannot have a just...
Monday, June 8, 2020

Commentary on Trump's Powerful Religious Enablers Pence, Barr, Pompeo: "Have Convinced Themselves That They Are in a Biblical Moment"

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Trump officials claim there is no systemic racism in policing as protests sweep US https://t.co/ms1pX6dd9a pic.twitter.com/k3ZnN4Au5G —...
Saturday, April 18, 2020

Wisconsin as Worst Place to Be Black in US and Recent Voting Débacle: These Are Related, in a State Whose Citizens Are a Quarter Catholic

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Take a cue from Wisconsin voters who stuck it out during a torrential rain & hail storm to make sure the Republican judge lost his se...
Thursday, April 16, 2020

Facts, Numbers, Trump's Real Pandemic Record — and Continued Truth-Skirting of "Pro-Life" White Christians as Death Tolls Mount

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In my absolutely darkest moments right after the 2016 election I could not imagine this moment: thousands of Americans dying a day, an ec...
Tuesday, April 14, 2020

"Jesus Paid It All": How the Pushback of Some US Catholics Vs. Church Closings Reflects Captivity of Catholic Imagination to a Capitalist Worldview

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Jesus paid it all, All to him I owe. As social gospel theologian Shailer Mathews noted in the early 20th century, those words fro...
Sunday, April 5, 2020

Today's Guardian on Growing Backlash to Appeals to Cease Religious Gatherings, Fueled by Top GOP Leaders

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Since it appears some people just do not intend to get what's going on with some communities of faith — churches, notably — in the ...
Tuesday, March 10, 2020

"Pro-Life" Christians May Yet Be the Death of Us All: Who's Driving Trump's Nonchalance About Coronavirus and Why

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Yesterday , I pointed you to a recent article by Ruth Graham about why Trump-friendly Christian leaders are feeling fine about coron...
Friday, August 2, 2019

Ruth Krall, Historical Meandering: Ideologies of Abuse and Exclusion (3)

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Vasily Polenov, Le droit du Seigneur (1874), in the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow This is the third and final installment of an essay b...
Thursday, March 21, 2019

Ed Kilgore on White Evangelicals as Heart of Trump Base: "Committed to a Common Desire to Take America Back to Its Days of Greatness in the 1950s"

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In " White Evangelicals Are Still the Heart of Trump's Base ," Ed Kilgore comments on new Pew Research Center data tha...
Thursday, March 7, 2019

Connections: UMC Hardening vs. Queer People to Catholic School Barring Child of Gay Couple to Failure of Utah Bill Outlawing "Conversion" Therapy to "Pro-Life" Administration Caging Children

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I offer you today these selections from items I have been reading lately, because — to my way of thinking, and I am hoping you'll a...
Sunday, March 3, 2019

Tara Westover's Educated: Questions re: the Anti-Government, Anti-Schools, Anti-Science, Anti-Medicine Lifestyle of Many Americans Today

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Sorry to have been silent the past week. As I mentioned previously, I have had an onerous textual revision process on my hands, and I...
Friday, February 15, 2019

Stephanie Krehbiel on Religious Groups Facing Abuse Revelations: "Godly Men, Be Quiet"

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This map shows routes of several Southern #Baptist "travelers;" men who preyed on people in one church role & went on to an...
Wednesday, January 30, 2019

Yes, More on Catholic MAGA Boys: Conversation White Americans (& Especially White Christians) Refuse to Have, or Why Trump Is in the White House

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Nothing has changed, essentially, since Robert P. Jones offered us the analysis of our serious cultural-political-religious crisi...
Monday, December 3, 2018

Headlines Keep Pouring Forth: "Pope Francis Goes Full Homophobic"; "Pope Tells Gay Clergy to Quit" — Some Mercy. Some Hope. Some Welcome!

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Newshub (New Zealand) And the headlines just keep pouring out around the world: "Pope Francis goes full homophobic"; "P...
Sunday, December 2, 2018

I Have a Dream: As Pope Francis Announces that Gay Men Shouldn't Enter Priesthood, as Advent Begins — "Leave the LGBTQ Community the Hell Alone"

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This is a meditation for the first Sunday of Advent. It has specific reference to what Pope Francis said (or is said to have said: let th...