https://politicalresearch.org/ The latest research related to vatican ii en 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/2022/05/10/end-roe-comes-courtesy-catholic-church-dorothy-day-abortion-fund-st-vincent-de-paul No matter how Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization is decided finally, restrictions unto bans on abortions will be courtesy of the institutional Roman Catholic Church. The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, their Pro-Life Activities Committee, and colleagues will… Tue, 10 May 2022 03:41:31 EDT Mary Hunt 1c7ff8e2-da71-42af-a292-a2f7ca74b98a https://religiondispatches.org/2021/12/01/growing-anti-pope-rad-trad-community-poised-become-qatholics-history-isnt-encouraging On Halloween, Rhode Island police announced that they had arrested Father James Jackson , the pastor of the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter (FSSP)’s church of St Mary in Providence, Rhode Island, for possession and transfer of child pornography. The… Wed, 01 Dec 2021 10:46:27 EST Joshua P. Hevert, Thomas Lecaque cf52626b-194a-49a9-9b11-05cfa434551a https://religiondispatches.org/2021/11/01/synod-or-sin-oddly-vatican-encourages-catholics-walk-together-long-hierarchy-leads-way The “Synod on Synodality” which Pope Francis launched with minimal fanfare this month is the Vatican’s latest effort to square a circle. It’s meant to engage the whole church, all billion plus, in a process of “walking together” though no… Mon, 01 Nov 2021 03:07:39 EDT Mary Hunt 0d1bbf73-dacb-4a0c-b0a3-1ece035ebbc9 https://religiondispatches.org/2021/08/13/latest-diatribe-francis-and-latin-mass-times-launders-history-and-troubling-elements Church councils are never simple things, neither when they’re happening nor in their aftermath. Although often called to confront troubling questions or iron out controversies, they haven’t always been successful in accomplishing those tasks over the past nearly 1,700 years… Fri, 13 Aug 2021 01:39:38 EDT Matthew Gabriele cde509e7-fa50-438c-bd6d-f3efc082c0e0 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/2019/11/06/what-does-catholic-churchs-patriarchal-structure-have-do-failure-amazon-synod Feminist liberationists have long claimed that discrimination against women is the model for favoring the power of elites over the rest with negative consequences worldwide. The Amazonian Synod only reinforced the claim. The mistakes were breathtakingly obvious and relatively easy to fix. Wed, 06 Nov 2019 02:51:20 EST Mary Hunt 2737b639-7d2a-40e4-a631-f5d74620a413 https://religiondispatches.org/2019/05/09/theology-inspired-poway-synagogue-shooting-and-new-zealand-remains-strikingly Concerned as we rightly are about the immediate human cost of Lori Gilbert Kaye’s awful murder and the trauma inflicted on the Poway and national Jewish communities, hardly anyone has delved into the theological causes behind Earnest’s actions, as confused as they may be. Thu, 09 May 2019 01:36:05 EDT Ivan Strenski 1e9f97d8-4b24-46dc-ad61-ee35b76688f3 https://religiondispatches.org/2018/09/12/its-gay-problem-and-other-myths-catholic-churchs-sexual-abuse-crisis The cover-up has nothing to do with politics. It’s about saving face, protecting priestly friends, and saving the Church from scandal. Wed, 12 Sep 2018 01:54:18 EDT Joelle Casteix 6e1568ca-3304-4395-8424-c567da78985b https://religiondispatches.org/2018/07/24/story-behind-catholic-churchs-stunning-contraception-reversal Behind the official explanation for the continued ban on birth control was the need to maintain the link between sex and procreation, which was essential to the maintenance of the traditional, subordinate role of women, a key concern of the Catholic Church. Tue, 24 Jul 2018 01:26:59 EDT Patricia Miller b35f7da8-6a7f-459f-8338-c744f3587a88 https://religiondispatches.org/2018/01/19/new-survey-catholic-women-disengaged-disengaging-and-dont-listen-us-bishops Nearly five years into Pope Francis papacy, with its great expectations for a revival of Catholicism among the flagging faithful, a new large-scale survey of American Catholic women finds the flock faithful but disengaged from the rituals of the church… Fri, 19 Jan 2018 01:22:50 EST Patricia Miller 91448444-aa89-4631-a80e-dd56cc8dbe35 https://religiondispatches.org/2017/06/15/new-study-islamophobia-common-catholic-media With Catholic commentators writing about the “threat” of Islam, it’s no surprise many U.S. Catholics have negative views of Muslims Thu, 15 Jun 2017 03:28:40 EDT Jordan Denari Duffner aa6662ab-4219-4bfa-97c4-cee395a5ed86 https://religiondispatches.org/2017/06/08/pences-prayer-breakfast-appearance-underscores-fractured-american-catholicism The annual National Catholic Prayer Breakfast is hardly a bipartisan or nonpolitical event. It was founded in 2004 as part of an effort to cement ties between conservative Catholics, the Catholic hierarchy, and the GOP. Among those associated with it… Thu, 08 Jun 2017 02:34:44 EDT Patricia Miller 70ccb19c-1745-45c8-9460-67b65319c489 https://religiondispatches.org/2017/05/11/catholic-citizenship-massimo-faggioli-role-public-theologians-today Massimo Faggioli’s new book, Catholicism and Citizenship: Political Cultures of the Church in the Twenty-First Century, is based on a series of lectures and essays the Villanova professor began publishing and delivering during the 50 th anniversary of Vatican II… Thu, 11 May 2017 12:32:31 EDT Kaya Oakes 8910682f-ac94-4030-8172-555b6e352c13 https://religiondispatches.org/2017/02/17/creation-little-noticed-department-pope-francis-securing-liberal-reforms As Steve Bannon has allied with the pope’s bitterest opponents, liberals have had all the more reason to rally behind Francis. Fri, 17 Feb 2017 12:43:11 EST Cormac Shine 4187743d-bff6-4405-baa7-85ec0ddcca0e https://religiondispatches.org/2017/01/04/make-mass-latin-again-pope-francis-backlash-comes-home There’s beauty in mythology, to be sure. But there is also grave danger in believing mythologies can save broken institutions. Wed, 04 Jan 2017 02:16:32 EST Kaya Oakes a0d47aff-10ea-459a-b55b-77f3d4f525b3 https://religiondispatches.org/2016/11/28/catholic-feminist-isnt-oxymoron-and-other-tales-beleaguered-tradition In her latest book, journalist Celia Wexler explores the conflicted feelings many Catholic women have towards their faith and the attempts to make peace with the institutions and traditions that fail them. Mon, 28 Nov 2016 03:34:38 EST Celia Wexler 8a819f4c-ee58-49c8-b2ea-831fca606273 https://religiondispatches.org/2016/11/21/donald-trump-scares-lgbt-people-worldwide-and-more-weeks-global-lgbt-recap Backlash At UN & Elsewhere; Religious Leaders Rally Against Marriage Equality in Taiwan & El Salvador. Mon, 21 Nov 2016 12:55:57 EST Peter Montgomery 3cc00fba-e5c7-4c11-b4ec-92940832e086 https://religiondispatches.org/2016/10/31/breitbart-how-right-wing-media-transformed-american-politics It didn’t all start with Glenn Beck. Mon, 31 Oct 2016 01:29:33 EDT Eric C. Miller 76e7df71-3e76-4fd4-b365-10381e94f344 https://religiondispatches.org/2016/06/20/could-orthodoxy-be-having-its-vatican-ii-moment An interview with theologian Fr. John Chryssavgis Mon, 20 Jun 2016 09:26:39 EDT Chrissy Stroop 06fe329f-2f36-4a70-9d03-3beccb2e9bab https://religiondispatches.org/2016/04/15/pope-francis-talking-anyone-listening For all the ink that has been spilled in the last few years over the historic family synods convened by Pope Francis—as well as general prognosticating over the direction he will take Catholic teaching in, one would think that Catholics… Fri, 15 Apr 2016 02:40:59 EDT Patricia Miller 806a3b78-5c69-48f8-86d5-9a60a333adb0 https://religiondispatches.org/2016/04/04/guy-rome-catholic-town-idaho-where-pope-heretic Last December, at the end of his tour of Africa, Pope Francis answered a question about Islamic fundamentalism by pointing to the same malady in his own flock. “We Catholics have some—and not some, many—who believe they possess the absolute… Mon, 04 Apr 2016 11:51:12 EDT Jason Wilson 8fca20a6-6830-4813-a22a-3324b9daf581 https://religiondispatches.org/2015/12/01/will-religious-freedom-be-issue-finally-unites-religious-right It is by now widely accepted that the second half of the 20 th century witnessed a realignment of religious politics in the United States. In particular, many scholars have written about an interfaith alliance of religious conservatives working to… Tue, 01 Dec 2015 01:43:43 EST Eric C. Miller 77e0decc-d49d-4d50-bf0c-bf279ec65d65 https://religiondispatches.org/2015/07/09/who-are-waldensians-and-why-did-pope-ask-their-forgiveness Avenge, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones/Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold… who kept thy truth so pure of old. – John Milton on the 1655 slaughter of 1,700 Waldensians at the hands of the Catholic Duke of… Thu, 09 Jul 2015 09:39:10 EDT Ed Simon 8a646c81-3583-46c6-a555-0957c2339fc0 https://religiondispatches.org/2015/07/01/sacred-and-dead-ten-writers-end-american-adventure Jerry Garcia said once that he didn’t care much for the Western God—but that didn’t stop him from creating a religion of his own, complete with “ tie dye, skulls, and swirling skirts.” But just how does the Grateful Dead… Wed, 01 Jul 2015 11:41:12 EDT The Editors 3ea62d48-44dd-4ceb-a25a-7a4d2c396442