pope benedict xvi

Perhaps it wasn’t just the pope’s health that sent him into retirement, but his consternation at our increasingly networked lives.

Educated guesses about the next pontiff.

Critics cite the “devastating” impact of Benedict’s papacy when it comes to the place of LGBT people within the Church, as well as his antagonism toward women religious.

What do you give to the Pope on the occasion of his retirement? I am sure he has more Rolex watches than he needs, and the red shoes he likes are out of my price range. But a new Church would be just the thing to assure him a dignified old age.

Yep. But it’s been a while.

As if the whole Louie Giglio inaugural preaching debacle weren’t enough to sour many in on the religiosity of the American political process, conservative evangelical shock preacher Mark Driscoll stirred a hornet’s nest of Christianist hate and Christian outrage with the following…

I have a better idea.

At the end of the day, ministry without meaningful engagement is merely a form of advertising.

While the Catholic Church has certainly gone out of its way to encourage the use of social media to spread the gospel, it’s unlikely it intended the creepy surveillance that recently took place in a Minnesota parish.

Or is the choice of Ryan ideological window dressing for a failed campaign?