Public Religion Research and Third Way have jointly released a new report, Beyond the God Gap, which presents new research…
Beyond the God gap
Catholicism
Religious cartoons: freedom of speech as well as religion
In a post at Religion Dispatches last month, Austin Dacey argues vehemently that religious satire is nothing new. Before the…
“Religion can make life inside bearable”
Francis Davis discusses the role of religion in the prison system, why certain religious movements acquire certain followings, and the…
Religion and the judiciary
In The Guardian, Aidan O'Neill discusses the role of religion in the American and British Supreme Courts.
The Catholic heresy, again
The reason I am talking about Catholics here is because of the subtitle of Bender's book: Spirituality and the American…
Seattle-area nuns investigated for “feminism”?
In light of the bad press that the Catholic Church has been receiving lately regarding the cover-up of sexual abuse…
Re-evaluating Flannery O’Connor
In Commentary, Terry Teachout writes that for many years, Flannery O'Connor's readers and critics failed to grasp the meaning of…
“How the health care bill made nuns rad”
At Slate, Noreen Malone notes that American nuns were instrumental in countering the conservative position of the Catholic Bishops during…
“The Year of the Abusive Priest”
Amid the maelstrom of reportage surrounding the Vatican's meiotic response to recent revelations of further sexual abuses in various arms…
“Questioning” Catholic celibacy
At the Reuters FaithWorld blog, Tom Heneghan has a useful post about the controversy sparked by Cardinal Christoph Schönborn's remarks…