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Evangelical churches have made use of technology like PowerPoint for years, but now some Catholic priests think the stodgy environment of older parishes might be enhanced by installing LCD screens in the pews. The New Yorker reports: Monsignor Donald Sakano, of Old St. Patrick’s Cathedral, in Little Italy … has long since stopped feeling embarrassed when [...]
Filed under: Religion
Appearing the other night on the Catholic network EWTN, I was asked by Raymond Arroyo what should be done about Muslim students at Catholic University demanding that the school provide them with prayer rooms, from which crucifixes and all other Catholic symbols that they found offensive had been removed. After a nanosecond I replied, “Kick [...]
On the day when all the headlines are about the UN’s official world headcount hitting 7 billion, it’s worth noting that a former cornerstone of American protestantism also hit another ominous milestone. The Episcopal Church — by some counts, the religious home of more American presidents than any other denomination — reported last week that [...]
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Amid this week’s debate over the meaning of a Vatican department’s call for regulation of the global economy, we should note that there are some Catholics who don’t endorse the status quo or a new global Leviathan — these neo-distributists both find fault with current market arrangements and seek local solutions. This position happens to be [...]
Is a religious war breaking out in the Republican Party? On Friday, Pastor Robert Jeffress of the 10,000-member First Baptist Church of Dallas took the podium at the Values Voter Summit to introduce and endorse Rick Perry. Gov. Perry, said Pastor Jeffress, is a leader with “a strong commitment to biblical values” who defunded Planned [...]
In the New York Times Magazine, TAC‘s Michael Brendan Dougherty discusses Dr. Leroy Thompson, evangelist of the Prosperity Gospel: He testified that God gave him an abundant life, including a Falcon 900B airplane to deliver this message, as well as air conditioning so strong that he can wear a mink coat in the Louisiana summer. [...]
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The tireless Richard Dawkins continues to lay the foundations for his immanent atheist caliphate. In bookstores this October shall arrive his latest offering, a graphic science textbook called The Magic of Reality: How We Know What’s Really True, with illustrations by Dave McKean. This is ostensibly a book for “curious readers of all ages.” But [...]
Tea Party darling Michele Bachmann has become the first Republican presidential candidate to sign a pledge calling for a Constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage. The pledge is called The Marriage Vow and was released by The Family Leader, an organization of social conservatives based in Iowa. The Marriage Vow also calls for the protection [...]
Filed under: Conservatism, Election, Religion, Tea Party
The idea of a Mormon president is as unpopular today as the proposition of a Catholic occupant of the White House was in 1959. Gallup recently asked “if your party nominated a generally well-qualified person for president who happened to be Mormon, would you vote for that person?” One in four Democrats and one in five Republicans [...]
Christianity Today is running a short, entertaining essay on the history of Christian rock and roll, and it’s well worth reading. The author, Joel Heng Hartse, argues that Christian rock often wasn’t as far from the mainstream as most people think: Rock and roll is supposed to be the rebellion, and Christianity the establishment, and [...]