by Many commentators have considered this question, especially given the Pope’s decision regarding the convent at Auschwitz. As a non-Catholic, I am reluctant to take a position on this question but I recommend this intriguing column by the author of “The Saint and the Sultan: The Crusades, Islam and Francis of Assisi’s Mission of Peace.”
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In Park Slope, where I live, all of us have family or friends who either died on 9/11 or had close calls. My wife had one of those close calls. She was a law enforcement lawyer who stayed in an adjacent building until the first tower collapsed. I lost touch with her at that moment [...]
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by On the way in to work this morning, I heard an interview on BBC Newshour that included Jordan Sekulow, Deputy Director of Public Affairs at the American Center for Law and Justice. The ACLJ has been a leading voice of the religious right concerning the so-called “Ground Zero Mosque.” The presenter asked Sekulow whether the plans for [...]
Read the full postGreat piece by Sam Tanenhaus, “God and Politics, Together Again.” Best I’ve seen on why President Obama’s best efforts to promote unity have largely failed and why he does not connect with large segments of white Christian America. As someone sympathetic to the President, I hope he reads it — and gets it.
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by I recently had the opportunity to read a draft article by Notre Dame Law professors Margaret Brinig and Nicole Garnett (I am citing this article with their permission). The article, “Catholic Schools and Broken Windows,” examines the impact of Catholic school closures on inner city Chicago neighborhoods. The “broken windows” refers to the now famous [...]
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by The news today is full of stories of James Lee’s take-over of the Discovery Channel headquarters. The stories including earlier pictures of him carrying signs that say: “Discover Channel: Save the Planet.” My question is, why isn’t the news media calling in Al Gore and other leaders of the environmental movement, demanding that they condemn [...]
Read the full postThis brief snip of a video interview with Biblical scholar and theologian N.T. Wright is geared towards evangelical Christians, but I thought it was worth sharing here. Wright is not addressing American Catholics, or other American religious people, in this clip. But it’s interesting (and frustrating) to me that evangelicals in the U.S. tend toward [...]
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