“His attempts to gain access to the church even led Scientologists to set their own cameramen on Theroux, taunting him that they were making a documentary, too.”
Interreligious Dialogue
Posted inFaith, Your Take
Which religion’s liberty is most threatened in the United States?
“Let’s understand: Religious discrimination can also mean using one’s own religion to discriminate against others.”
Posted inFaith, In All Things
U.S. Catholic bishops condemn recent anti-Semitic attacks
“The Catholic Church stands in love with the Jewish community in the current face of anti-Semitism.”
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
Pope Francis to activists: Stand with migrants, do not deny climate science, there is no such thing as ‘Islamic terrorism’
“The grave danger,” Pope Francis writes, “is to disown our neighbors. When we do so, we deny their humanity and our own humanity…and we deny the most important Commandments of Jesus.”
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
U.S. bishops welcome court decision to reject Trump’s travel ban
In a rebuke to the Trump administration on Feb. 9, the three federal appellate judges sided with the states of Washington and Minnesota on nearly every matter, opening the possibility that the case could shift to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Posted inPolitics & Society
Meet my dad: The Republican who’s hosting Muslim refugees
“Immigrants are the last ones most of us know who are looking for a handout from anyone.”
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
The Quebec Mosque shooting was a ‘wake up call’ for Canadians
While Canadian Muslim communities grieve and regroup, the violence has other Canadians rethinking how Muslims are treated and perceived in Canada.
Posted inPolitics & Society
Pope Francis condemns terror attack on Quebec mosque
Christians and Muslims must remain “united together in prayer,” the pope said.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
What Catholics owe their Muslim brothers and sisters
It should not be difficult for Catholics to acknowledge the reality of Islamophobia.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
The Native American Holy Man who did not surrender all to the Jesuits
What Black Elk taught his people was to depend instead on something harder to take away than guns, the trust that prayers in their own language, delivered in their own way, would reach the god they addressed as Tunkashila.