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Rather than working for equality, the church has enshrined and anointed male authority. For all the talk of the priesthood not being an institution of power, the reality is that the church is in thrall to a culture of radical clericalism. Read more
Rather than working for equality, the church has enshrined and anointed male authority. For all the talk of the priesthood not being an institution of power, the reality is that the church is in thrall to a culture of radical clericalism. Read more
Pope Francis sits during the traditional greetings to the Roman Curia at the Vatican in December 2018. Filippo Monteforte/Pool Photo via AP by Timothy D. Lytton, Georgia State University Pope Francis is gathering 200 bishops and heads of religious orders from around the world for a global summit in Rome to discuss the crisis facing the Catholic Church over sexual abuse scandals. The meeting begins on Feb. 21 and will last four days. It is likely to produce a new... Read more
From the time I was old enough to vote, I knew one thing for sure: I had to vote pro-life. Other factors could be taken into consideration – and as a burgeoning intellectual I took pride in giving at least a cursory glance to contextual matters, such as education and the environment – but in comparison to the abortion issue, everything else was really window dressing. I’m not sure when I began overtly to question this principle. It might have... Read more
Currently, criminal or civil charges can be brought against an abuser until the victim’s 23rd birthday. Only Alabama and Mississippi have more restrictive regulations, while nine other states have no statute of limitations at all. Read more
Until we’ve done something about the complete inaccessibility of medical care for many women in challenging pregnancies, conversations about the ideal ethical choice in cases where women and their babies’ lives are threatened tend to have little relevance outside ethics classes. Read more
On January 27, we observe International Holocaust Remembrance Day. On this day in 1945, the Red Army liberated the prisoners held in Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest of the Nazi death camps, but by no means the only one. Throughout the duration of the Holocaust, an estimated six million Jews – that is, approximately one third the existing population of Jews in the world – were systematically murdered. A meme circulating on the internet today states that if we were all to... Read more
“Can’t we just drop it?” people ask. Well, we could. The problem is, the story has reverberated beyond the initial encounter, so that it is now not so much about what happened in a particular complex cultural situation, and more about broad perceptions and the shaping of narratives. And because of this, we owe the young white men in the video an apology. No, I never doxxed, threatened, or called for violence against these young men. And I denounce the... Read more
The March for Life isn't supposed to be a Trump rally. If you turn it into one, it will carry with it the kind of tension that has been found at Trump rallies for the past three years. Read more
One of the sillier of many silly responses to the “men can do better” Gillette ad is a meme: “No one called it ‘toxic masculinity’ when we were saving the world from Nazis.” The answer to this is, of course, obvious: fighting Nazis IS fighting toxic masculinity. Or, it should be. It is interesting, however, how “fighting Nazis” serves a particular rhetorical purpose in arguments like this. As though the function of “Nazis” in the equation has less to do... Read more
When a person admits to being sexually aroused by that which is not intended to sexually arouse, that person is saying far more about themselves than about the work of art. Read more
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