https://politicalresearch.org/ The latest research related to opus dei en https://religiondispatches.org/2021/05/11/bishops-attempt-deny-communion-biden-will-backfire-even-more-spectacularly-opposition If only President Joe Biden didn’t carry a rosary or quote the popular Catholic hymn “On Eagle’s Wings” in his Inaugural address, it would be easy to categorize him. It would be simple to write him off as one more… Tue, 11 May 2021 03:23:58 EDT Mary Hunt b5e90788-efe3-427b-b9c9-04ce10906b8d https://religiondispatches.org/2019/12/06/bill-barrs-belief-powerful-president-actually-religious-high-papal-fable A new book aims to show how Christianity continues to shape the West in unseen ways. But one scholar believes a more accurate summary of the argument is that modern secular society is actually saturated in a deep Roman Catholic ethos, which notably includes the doctrine of strong papal authority. Fri, 06 Dec 2019 02:57:03 EST Ivan Strenski 152a9b53-2bd4-447b-a320-f46e366ea7ff https://religiondispatches.org/2017/08/01/burmas-spirit-festival-and-more-weeks-global-lgbt-roundup The Washington Blade spoke to bisexual activists in a dozen countries and reported on the global movement in a two-part series. Earlier this month, the intensely anti-gay leader of the U.S.-based Mass Resistance, Brian Camenker, traveled to the U.K. to… Tue, 01 Aug 2017 05:16:04 EDT Peter Montgomery a6983bba-4a05-4663-85da-8844ac577c47 https://religiondispatches.org/2017/07/28/brownback-nomination-further-evidence-religious-freedom-code-conservative-christian Wednesday was a terrible, horrible, no-good, very bad day for LGBT Americans and those who believe we deserve basic respect and civil rights. After the president’s hastily tweeted ban on transgender Americans serving openly in the military, the Justice Department’s… Fri, 28 Jul 2017 11:49:04 EDT Sunnivie Brydum 652a0b8f-5b3b-4060-aa4a-f3ccd68be895 https://religiondispatches.org/2016/10/07/pope-francis-says-teaching-gender-nasty-far-right-religious-groups-helping-mexicos-anti Catholic Church: Pope calls teaching of gender theory “nasty” Pope Francis told reporters that teaching gender theory amounts to unacceptable “indoctrination” of young people. And he spoke about treating gay people with respect. Nicole Winfield reports for Associated Press that… Fri, 07 Oct 2016 04:52:54 EDT Peter Montgomery d17e0301-f0e8-4c69-8648-13bab5cdf3ae https://religiondispatches.org/2016/09/25/mexican-marriage-marches-show-struggle-between-church-and-secular-state-pro-lgbt-mormon Mexico: Anti-marriage marches stir clash between church officials and proponents of secular state A march drew tens of thousands – or hundreds of thousands depending on whose numbers you believe – of anti-marriage-equality Catholics and evangelicals to Mexico City, the… Sun, 25 Sep 2016 11:25:29 EDT Peter Montgomery b8f6bdb3-03b6-4c28-876a-0175fc73df9a https://religiondispatches.org/2016/09/03/mexicos-religious-conservatives-seek-anti-lgbt-constitutional-amendment-lgbt-activists The anti-equality World Congress of Families has regional conferences scheduled in Belgrade, Serbia on September 16-18 and Nairobi, Kenya on September 23-25 each featuring an array of speakers from the global religious right. Another regional conference is planned for Cape… Sat, 03 Sep 2016 05:25:41 EDT Peter Montgomery 0294c666-7d0b-418f-ad82-585375985156 https://religiondispatches.org/2016/02/16/scalias-not-very-catholic-right-wing-originalism The late Antonin Scalia is rightly being remembered for almost single-handedly creating and promulgating the idea of “originalism,” the highly controversial doctrine that the Constitution is like a bug entombed in amber, forever frozen in its original meaning to the… Tue, 16 Feb 2016 01:38:14 EST Patricia Miller 660e0a71-aa65-4303-bea1-305b7e348ba0 https://religiondispatches.org/2015/09/19/brutality-life-syrian-lgbts-saving-anglican-church-dissolving-it-backlash-hindu-gay Syria: ISIS not the only source of brutality against LGBTs Dan McDougall’s feature story in the Sunday Times of London Magazine examines the situation in Syria, “where gay people are being persecuted and murdered – and not just by Isis.”… Sat, 19 Sep 2015 01:33:49 EDT Peter Montgomery 7012c0cb-594c-42e2-b1d3-195995f85de1 https://religiondispatches.org/2015/08/29/marriage-vote-transforms-not-so-catholic-ireland-activist-malaysian-pm-love-not Islamic State: Nine men reportedly executed for sodomy; UN Security Council hears testimony Islamic State militants reportedly executed nine men on Sunday “on charges of sexual perversion.” The killings came a day before the United Nations Security Council heard testimony… Sat, 29 Aug 2015 02:19:58 EDT Peter Montgomery 474794c3-3943-4b1f-b206-941fe48ef1bd https://religiondispatches.org/2015/07/31/african-religious-leaders-complain-about-obama-advocacy-lgbt-rights-ultra-orthodox-man Africa: Religious leaders criticize Obama comments on LGBT human rights A story from the Catholic News Agency rounds up critical commentary from members of the church hierarchy in response to U.S. President Barack Obama’s advocacy for the human rights of… Fri, 31 Jul 2015 10:01:20 EDT Peter Montgomery 3122d501-cc72-4af7-a824-c84d8c4fda5a https://religiondispatches.org/2015/07/20/why-church-struggling-hold-millennial-catholics A new survey from Catholics for Choice on the opinions of Catholic millennials as regards doctrinal issues might make the church’s traditionalists want to brace themselves. But its findings are also somewhat unsurprising to anyone who spends time around younger… Mon, 20 Jul 2015 06:55:28 EDT Kaya Oakes 924356c5-62ef-4914-ac86-da6dea22507f https://religiondispatches.org/2015/05/18/predicting-future-religion-thought-experiment Polls are good, but a crystal ball might be better. Mon, 18 May 2015 10:57:10 EDT Ed Simon d5004cb0-1124-4589-869f-888154e0974d https://religiondispatches.org/2014/06/12/catholic-bishops-vote-double-down-culture-war The U.S. Catholic Bishops’ vote to maintain their politically aggressive Ad Hoc Committee on Religious Liberty for another three years signals that despite the warnings of Pope Francis to tone down the culture war stuff, the bishops are fully invested… Thu, 12 Jun 2014 08:53:21 EDT Patricia Miller 37a4f15b-161a-4392-a286-8e290f61d1dd https://religiondispatches.org/2014/06/02/kudlow-brags-twitter-about-helping-card-dolan-write-free-market-oped CNBC host Larry Kudlow is bragging on Twitter that he helped Cardinal Timothy Dolan with his recent paean to free-market capitalism in the Wall Street Journal (note to Mr. Kudlow, there is a reason they call it “ghostwriting”): I worked… Mon, 02 Jun 2014 09:46:27 EDT Patricia Miller 836e5e76-e92e-443e-9b6b-d3fc13ed71ae https://religiondispatches.org/2014/01/06/trouble-francis-three-things-worry-me Substantive structural and doctrinal issues do not evaporate just because the pope does not wear Prada. Mon, 06 Jan 2014 01:45:00 EST Mary Hunt 1c4655a1-ab81-4e46-a5ae-55e95a3f71fd https://religiondispatches.org/2013/01/29/internet-not-killing-organized-religion The theory that access to the internet will be the undoing of organized religion has resurfaced. But do the data show anything like this? Tue, 29 Jan 2013 11:33:17 EST Elizabeth Drescher 5ea63fbd-b01e-4afb-8eba-649187d40af1 https://religiondispatches.org/2012/07/26/god-my-co-belligerent-avatar-priests-hijacked-theologians-and-other-figures-right-wing Probably few who gathered to hear Bonhoeffer’s latest biographer expected to be asked to imagine themselves called by God to rise up against a regime that might be as heinous as the Third Reich—but as it turns out Metaxas is not unique among religious-right intellectuals in his use of the language of armed revolt. Thu, 26 Jul 2012 06:05:47 EDT Frederick Clarkson 95e2b234-846b-4956-9bf0-d355252e7860 https://religiondispatches.org/2012/07/09/nuns-bus-2700-miles-nine-states-and-rock-star-dc-welcome Tourist buses are fixtures on Capitol Hill, but the arrival at the Methodist Building of “Nuns on the Bus: Nuns Drive for Faith, Family and Fairness” in noonday heat to the cheers of their colleagues had to be a first. Mon, 09 Jul 2012 07:51:03 EDT Mary Hunt 64eec8ff-dc6e-495c-82fb-14482f46555b https://religiondispatches.org/2012/06/25/new-gallup-poll-finds-only-34-correctly-identify-obama-christian Forty-four percent say they don’t know what his religion is. Mon, 25 Jun 2012 05:23:02 EDT Sarah Posner 9aac2968-b3e6-4335-ba01-f037ebc475cc https://religiondispatches.org/2012/06/13/new-anti-gay-snake-oil-religious-right It doesn’t even measure what it claims to be measuring. Wed, 13 Jun 2012 01:20:31 EDT Candace Chellew-Hodge 44de0eec-5a0e-421b-bc6a-e98d438b98af https://religiondispatches.org/2012/03/20/santorum-and-new-catholic-evangelical-alliance A political, not theological, co-belligerence. Tue, 20 Mar 2012 06:03:24 EDT Sarah Posner 2c432120-7f68-4511-849a-b371d257a990 https://religiondispatches.org/2012/03/14/catholic-women-against-contraception An “affront to women.” Wed, 14 Mar 2012 11:56:31 EDT Sarah Posner 179dc715-33c3-48d6-8ce8-48d2c5fa38ac https://religiondispatches.org/2012/02/21/contraception-furor-v-catholic-realities Efforts by the hierarchical institution to spin the current controversy as a matter of religious liberty are unconvincing. After all, it is not the Catholic Church whose liberty is impinged upon. Members, even bishops, can still teach and believe what they wish. No one forces them to use contraception. Rather, it is employees of Catholic institutions, including janitors and housekeepers, whose rights to make their own decisions about health care are impinged upon. Blaming the victim is an old trick, but, in this case, few people are buying it. Tue, 21 Feb 2012 03:18:21 EST Mary Hunt d8f33ea1-d009-40c3-82e6-ff3b4bf71c12 https://religiondispatches.org/2011/08/31/unauthorized-catholic-immigrants-will-renew-christian-america-archbishop-says As Archbishop Gomez argues, it is Catholics who “have a special duty today to be the guardians of the truth about the American spirit and our national identity.” In fact, Archbishop Gomez argues, immigrant Catholics “without proper documentation,” who share the values of “faith, family, and community” are “the key to American renewal.” Yes, Archbishop Gomez is arguing that unauthorized immigrants not only deserve the chance to adjust their status to live legally in the United States, but also hold the promise of a renewed and reinvigorated “next America.” Wed, 31 Aug 2011 11:05:27 EDT Marie Friedmann Marquardt d89d4783-1e13-4056-8710-8cadf72ec515