This is who we are. We came to this continent, stole it from those who lived here, and claimed to discover it. We warred over it, put down roots, established a new nation claiming to be based on liberty, while we were keeping human beings as slaves. Read more
With Trump as their figurehead, the pro-life movement now looks, to anyone outside his cult following, like exactly the kind of misogynistic, cruel, racist movement we were worried about it becoming. Read more
I have written before about how there is an antisemitism problem among Catholics of the far right. Whether it’s alt-right media personality Patrick Coffin giving a platform to overt antisemites such as E. Michael Jones, or Center for Family and Human Rights president Austin Ruse praising the Proud Boys, or white nationalist John Zmirak defending the phrase “you will not replace us – whether it’s tabloid media groups such as the Remnant publishing anti-semitic material – whether it’s ongoing and... Read more
It is impossible for any woman to take the lead in this society without being judged not according to ordinary expectations for humans, but also according to patriarchal expectations for women. And since the patriarchal image of a woman is of something not entirely human, the more human a woman is the less she seems to be failing in feminini Read more
The hypocrisy of those who claim to defend decency while standing up for everything that is base and indecent is breathtaking. But on top of this hypocrisy, Trump’s religious devotees dare to pretend to still have a moral high ground. They are still trying to police and shame us - this time, for doing what we know is right. Read more
The important thing is, we do agree that a right to life is real, and we do agree that bodily autonomy is real. We do not want to see a world in which abortion rates are high. Nor do we want to see a world in which women are routinely shamed, punished, and imprisoned because of personal choices they have made in dire circumstances. Read more
Is Christianity a religion of empire and nationalism, of “might makes right,” of walls and guns and flags and bombs and borders? Read more
It is our work, heavy work, tiring work, work where we often miss our turning and blunder in the dark. This is a work that has failed often, not just at our hands, but in all hands, over and over, through the cycles of time. Read more
"You know what was the worst part? Being betrayed by your friends, and knowing the SS guards only 7 years earlier were good, educated, Christian gentlemen, your neighbors." Read more
The corrupt prelates who persecuted the mendicants wanted to water down the radicality of Jesus’s message. Religious and political leaders try to do the same today, to attempt to appropriate the Gospel as something to be used for power on behalf of the powerful, rather than for justice on behalf of the oppressed. Read more
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