https://politicalresearch.org/ The latest research related to traditionalist catholicism en https://religiondispatches.org/2024/05/20/between-butker-candace-owens-and-nick-fuentes-tradcaths-are-having-moment-moment Trads (or traditionalist Catholics) are having a moment. In the last four weeks alone, Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker delivered a controversial commencement speech at a conservative Catholic college, right-wing media personality Candace Owens announced her conversion to Catholicism… Mon, 20 May 2024 12:14:42 EDT Lauren Horn Griffin 39fdd2b3-3db2-4b44-b89b-5ea71d4e35d8 https://religiondispatches.org/2023/12/18/pure-white-examines-white-supremacist-origins-evangelical-purity-culture Over the past few years purity culture has become a hot topic in the secular press. The harm it inflicts on White women has been explored by a number of scholars and survivors in books (both popular and scholarly), on… Mon, 18 Dec 2023 05:05:25 EST Emma Cieslik f0274a50-d4a7-4ef4-b579-c34dd5ef9974 https://religiondispatches.org/2023/10/23/spooky-action-quantum-physics-offers-alternative-frame-war-middle-east-and-2024-election By now you’ve read about Hamas’s attack and Israel’s ferocious response , all of which has exposed deep divisions on the Right , and aroused Christian Zionist supporters , b ut what are the implications of a violent, percussive war… Mon, 23 Oct 2023 02:22:34 EDT Peter Schwartz 749e1bed-deb4-46bf-a0e7-2d100f6f3b9b https://religiondispatches.org/2023/05/17/new-data-strongly-suggest-correlation-between-disaffiliation-and-christianitys For centuries, American evangelical Protestants have been obsessed with religious ‘revival.’ Fear of ostensible societal, moral, and religious ‘decline’ is the other side of the same paranoid Christian coin. The United States, deeply influenced by early Puritan settlers and other… Wed, 17 May 2023 03:10:02 EDT Chrissy Stroop 22349fab-511f-4a50-bae5-ef8a7222b312 https://religiondispatches.org/2023/01/17/key-understanding-federalist-society-isnt-originalism-its-800-year-old-tradition In the amicus brief he submitted to the Supreme Court on behalf of the state of Mississippi in the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health case that overturned Roe v. Wade , John Eastman of the Claremont Institute anchored a “foundational… Tue, 17 Jan 2023 05:15:13 EST Peter Schwartz 1a5a6f37-1de4-45e6-a3bc-fc71f49990de https://religiondispatches.org/2022/10/14/george-weigels-revisionist-history-casts-vatican-ii-christian-nationalist-handbook The upcoming 60th anniversary of the Second Vatican Council, better known as Vatican II, will produce lots of hot takes on the famous mid-twentieth century gathering of the Catholic hierarchy. Most will ask: what went wrong? Why was the Catholic… Fri, 14 Oct 2022 12:08:23 EDT Patricia Miller de7a94b2-7deb-4e07-aead-d4d8faed8ad9 https://religiondispatches.org/2022/05/19/we-believe-god-has-special-plan-every-single-life-oklahomas-strict-punitive-and-total Anyone who grew up in the Christian Right could have told you that Roe v. Wade was never “settled law,” despite what the pundits said. We conservative evangelicals were always sincerely gunning for Roe . I was born on July… Thu, 19 May 2022 05:23:18 EDT Chrissy Stroop 9d779d15-4cd9-42e8-80b4-b9f7973d725e https://religiondispatches.org/2022/02/17/freedom-convoy-inspired-biblical-account-divine-massacre-welcome-jericho-march When a church announces what’s called a Jericho March (or a Jericho Walk), you might picture congregants praying, walking around a building, trumpets blasting and an odd gospel song. You might forget, however, what comes next. From Joshua 6:20-21: When… Thu, 17 Feb 2022 06:10:40 EST Thomas Lecaque 90fd100f-40cc-412a-a36f-d308db6bafd5 https://religiondispatches.org/2021/10/21/manslaughter-conviction-brittney-poolaw-represents-pattern-white-christian-policing In light of new developments in right-wing, heavily evangelical states, it is both laughable and deeply upsetting that certain scholars have recently argued , irresponsibly, that abortion isn’t as significant an issue to white evangelicals as it once was. And… Thu, 21 Oct 2021 03:52:54 EDT Chrissy Stroop 3c68aced-6c23-49fa-b291-05de04324578 https://religiondispatches.org/2021/09/30/new-report-white-evangelicals-are-americas-most-anti-trans-demographic-encouraging-data In the latest important, if entirely unsurprising, news we learned this week that white evangelicals are more opposed to transgender rights than any other demographic in the United States. The data is found in a new report by the Public… Thu, 30 Sep 2021 05:22:28 EDT Chrissy Stroop 19a33333-6f7f-41d5-8e5e-1d466a86e8cd https://religiondispatches.org/2021/09/24/setting-low-bar-religious-entities-praised-treating-covid-religious-exemptions Last week, AP published a small, albeit important article, “Many faith leaders say no to endorsing vaccine exemptions,” noting that the leadership of certain Eastern Orthodox churches, Catholic dioceses, mainline Protestant denominations, Mormon leadership, Orthodox Jewish and Muslim organizations, and… Fri, 24 Sep 2021 05:33:39 EDT Chrissy Stroop 349470be-0d05-4a42-aa0c-1e22d313d648 https://religiondispatches.org/2021/09/20/love-letter-exvangelicals-and-those-deconstructing-their-toxic-faith I’m astounded by people who have the intellectual honesty, courage, and fortitude to examine their most deeply held beliefs. Not just examine, but challenge and reject beliefs that shape how their entire world is constructed—beliefs that they have been told… Mon, 20 Sep 2021 03:27:34 EDT Andrew L. Seidel 3cafd514-a3d0-4106-b289-4009401b5417 https://religiondispatches.org/2021/08/26/anti-vaxx-cardinal-burke-just-ventilator-becoming-living-anti-abortion-martyr Earlier this month Cardinal Raymond Leo Burke announced to the world that he had contracted Covid-19 in a strangely triumphant August 10 tweet “Praised be Jesus Christ! I wish to inform you that I have recently tested positive for the… Thu, 26 Aug 2021 03:49:48 EDT Karen E. Park 004350d2-e43a-41a3-b937-69379e012ef4 https://religiondispatches.org/2021/08/10/douthats-criticism-popes-restriction-latin-mass-fascinating-its-also-ahistorical-and-has In a recent opinion piece in the New York Times, fellow Catholic Ross Douthat criticized one of Pope Francis’ most consequential decisions: the July 16 motu proprio—or order—that reimposes restrictions on the Latin Mass preferred by many right-wing Catholics, thus… Tue, 10 Aug 2021 03:57:53 EDT Massimo Faggioli 9afc05b5-3015-42fb-8319-2a7788e9a587 https://religiondispatches.org/2020/02/12/trump-admin-grant-hookers-jesus-ignites-twitter-firestorm-over-taxpayer-funded-religious Reuters’ Sarah N. Lynch broke a big story on Monday morning highlighting one of the more outrageous examples of the Trump administration’s penchant for rewarding supporters and punishing opponents: A U.S. Justice Department anti-human trafficking grant program is facing internal… Wed, 12 Feb 2020 10:36:45 EST Chrissy Stroop 0e0a0d68-eeef-4f95-9fa2-0b3538b2262e https://religiondispatches.org/2020/02/06/amid-reality-tv-gimmicks-and-xenophobic-rhetoric-trumps-sotu-appeals-evangelicals Since late December, 2019, when retiring editor-in-chief of Christianity Today Mark Galli published his infamous “Trump Should Be Removed from Office” editorial, there’s been a great deal of buzz in the pundit class over whether Trump, after a highly publicized… Thu, 06 Feb 2020 11:32:00 EST Chrissy Stroop 355b4093-938b-4544-a86f-b830b0c18582 https://religiondispatches.org/2019/12/10/empty-pews-gives-voice-those-whove-escaped-toxic-christianity We want people who grew up or are growing up in right-wing Christian environments to understand that it’s okay to trust their doubts; and [because] there’s still a pretty strong taboo in the American public sphere against criticizing any large Christian group we hope this book will help [change that]. Tue, 10 Dec 2019 04:03:28 EST Chrissy Stroop, Lauren O'Neal f0f6eb25-7a28-45b0-a6a1-5793baf54ecc https://religiondispatches.org/2019/08/07/beyond-thoughts-and-prayers-how-christian-rights-politics-providentialism-keeps-america In order for the GOP leadership to continue to do nothing on guns they need loyal foot soldiers to deliver messaging that appeals to their base. What this messaging, familiar to those of us who grew up in the Christian Right, tells us about the “soul” of the Republican Party is not pretty. Wed, 07 Aug 2019 03:39:52 EDT Chrissy Stroop 6adefc20-1de3-48d6-92c7-214c22ced3de https://religiondispatches.org/2017/04/17/conservative-catholics-unhappy-about-new-book-lgbts-and-church-and-more-global-lgbt The Global Alliance for LGBT Education has protested the selection of Saudi Arabia as the site for a forum on youth engagement in social change: The forum, “Youth and their Social Impact”, is supposed to explore youth engagement and its… Mon, 17 Apr 2017 06:30:42 EDT Peter Montgomery 56541dc3-adfb-49a5-964c-e2d41a1b20b2 https://religiondispatches.org/2017/02/21/warships-animals-pubs-eligible-blessings-church-england-not-same-sex-couples-global-lgbt Vitit Muntarbhorn, the UN independent expert charged with investigating discrimination and violence on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity told the Washington Blade’s Michael Lavers that he sees his job as “an engaging process with all actors.” A… Tue, 21 Feb 2017 12:24:57 EST Peter Montgomery ade51f20-dcb3-41af-82ca-257cfbcf18cc 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/2015/06/22/encyclileaks-was-laudato-si-leak-sin-or-just-scoop In the days before the release of Pope Francis’ encyclical on the environment, Laudauto Si, the level of hype among the Catholic journalists and religion writers on my Twitter feed approached Star Wars levels with astonishing rapidity. A papal encyclical… Mon, 22 Jun 2015 10:15:26 EDT Kaya Oakes 3fd4a441-738c-401a-b65b-389a2cec5a45 https://religiondispatches.org/2014/04/14/why-such-outrage-over-star-trek-actors-geocentrism Do not profane the Star Trek. Mon, 14 Apr 2014 12:50:56 EDT Joseph Laycock 0cbe3133-1644-4e45-a19e-d6c011c77edf https://religiondispatches.org/2012/04/10/kirk-camerons-monumental-reveals-subtle-influence-christian-reconstructionism The documentary serves as a good illustration of the gradual and subtle influence of R. J. Rushdoony’s work in the broader culture—often in places where his name is completely unknown. Tue, 10 Apr 2012 10:57:05 EDT Julie Ingersoll 9e600b06-e152-4be3-8431-3e9f6efdea7b https://religiondispatches.org/2011/04/20/sex-more-fun-lying The latest BloggingheadsTV. Wed, 20 Apr 2011 08:24:44 EDT Sarah Posner c118423c-ab30-4d3b-954e-83602ba72b99