Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday rejected international pressure to halt the war in Gaza in a fiery speech marking the country’s annual Holocaust memorial day, declaring: “If Israel is forced to stand alone, Israel will stand alone.”
‘Come Over To Haiti And Help Us, Oh Lord’: Pastors Gather To Address Ongoing Crisis
“Kumbaya,” the Negro spiritual pleading with the Lord to come and bless the oppressed, filled the sanctuary of Parkridge Baptist Church at a prayer service for Haiti, its capital paralyzed by gang violence.
Comparing gender transition and surrogacy to war and human trafficking, Vatican’s ‘Dignitas Infinita’ is an intellectually embarrassing and harmful mess
The good news about the Vatican’s recent document, “Dignitas Infinita: on Human Dignity” is that most people will not read it. This shoddily written, self-referential, unresearched paper wouldn’t get most first-year graduate students in theology a passing grade.
‘Wildcat’ Is as Unsettling as Flannery O’Connor Would Have Wanted
Why not write something that “a lot, a lot, of people like?” Regina O’Connor asks her daughter, the writer Flannery O’Connor, in the middle of the new biopic Wildcat. The same question might be put to the film itself. It’s not a…
Cafeteria Catholicism?
I always find it fascinating when religious leaders show up in a non-religious context. It’s one thing for a pastor or priest to speak to their flock from the pulpit. A religious leader engaging in dialogue in a non-religious setting…
How ‘apocalypse’ became a secular as well as religious idea
The exponential growth of artificial intelligence over the past year has sparked discussions about whether the era of human domination of our planet is drawing to a close. The most dire predictions claim that the machines will take over within five…
Priests prepare to bring synodality from the Vatican to parishes around the world
After five days of meetings and an audience with Pope Francis in the past week (April 28-May 2), more than 200 parish priests from around the world are preparing to return home and bring the pope’s mission of synodality to…
Sacred religious site case needs 29 judges to weigh in, Apache group says
When lawyers over the years have asked the full 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals – all 29 active judges sitting together – to review a case, the answer has always been no.
The House Passed A Bill To Fight Antisemitism. Here’s Why Critics Call It Misleading.
A bill expanding the definition of antisemitism was passed on Wednesday by a bipartisan vote in the House — but despite the legislation on its face claiming to help federal officials better protect Jewish students on school campuses, critics say…