When you consider the Pope on condoms, a hospital’s failure to follow simple precautions, and the fading of activism, we’re still coming up short in the fight against AIDS. Still, even at the intersection of AIDS and religion, the news ain’t all bad.
Roger Haight, a Jesuit priest and scholar, is teaching his last semester at Union Theological seminary this spring. In this interview, one of his students tells the story of Haight’s censure by the church, and explains why it matters.
World-known theologian Hans Kung, ever a sharp thorn in the side of the Vatican, imagines what it would be like if Obama were in the Vatican instead of the White House.
An interview with Neil Giuliano, president of GLAAD, in the wake of a new poll that shows much wider concern for LGBT rights than might be expected, even among conservative Christians.
Unlike earlier technologies the ultra-personal iPhone will enable us all to become religious dilettantes privately dabbling with a few taps of the screen: the evangelical teen can recite the rosary, the Catholic can hear prayers in Hebrew, and a Jew can get a mantra. Were the Pontiff aware that the door swung both ways would he still go 2.0?
Benedict’s visit to Israel was marked by his refusal to acknowledge the history of Catholic anti-Judaism and its relationship to Nazi antisemitism. Politicians, rabbis, and journalists were indignant that the pope offered no apology while a cardinal was surprised to learn that an apology was expected.
The Pope’s anti-modern critiques should not be waved off so easily, as many allegedly life-promoting institutions actually foster death. There is much in it that a progressive secularist could agree with—apart from feminism and sexual ethics.
