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Oh SNAP! Picking a Pope with Sex Abuse Solutions in Mind | The Revealer

Oh SNAP! Picking a Pope with Sex Abuse Solutions in Mind | The Revealer

therevealer.org — Who's going to be the next pope? We know, more or less, who the cardinals are most likely to pick once the conclave gets rolling tomorrow. But there's another question that should be asked as we watch the Vatican for white smoke: who do lay Catholics and victims of sexual abuse by the church want for pope? There's more than one way to dissect a papal election process of course, but as the sex abuse scandal still rightly casts a deep shadow over the church, there are two ways the new pope might try to "fix" the church: with a revised papal media presence, and with systematic reform in church leadership.
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An Occupy Sandy photo faux pas

An Occupy Sandy photo faux pas

Columbia Journalism Review — A storm relief image that went viral with incorrect context serves as a social media lesson A photo depicting a cluster of men in military uniform listening attentively to a woman with a plastic "OCCUPY" armband shot around the twittersphere this past weekend, cited as evidence of something pretty unusual: Occupy Sandy training the National Guard in relief work. A sample of tweets: National Guard receiving training from @ occupysandy ow.ly/i/17cGF #sandy #volunteersandy - Occupy Wall Street (@OccupyWallSt) November 11, 2012 Amazing, National Guard receives training from #occupySandy ow.ly/i/17cGF - Tim Pool (@Timcast) November 14, 2012 This is Samantha Corbin an Occupy Sandy organizer, training the National Guard to go out and collaborate with the...
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What Are Jesuits? What About Liberation Theology?

What Are Jesuits? What About Liberation Theology?

Slate — What's in store for Catholics under Pope Francis? As Michael B. Dougherty expertly explained yesterday, the Catholic church just placed at its head a man who's previously avoided the spotlight, with no strong associations with any particular theological vision. So all those pieces going up on the first full day of Pope Francis's reign confidently speculating on what his papacy will (or won't) accomplish are relying on a few breadcrumbs to make their point. Among those are the new pontiff's "big firsts:" he's the first Jesuit pope, and the first from Latin America, where liberation theology wields a big influence.
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Community Is Beginning to Consume Itself

Community Is Beginning to Consume Itself

Slate — As a fan of both and , "Conventions of Space and Time"should have been an easy sell. The very premise denoted a showcase for Community's previously clever handling of the imaginary British series so beloved that it has its own actual-world fan-written canon. But instead, I'll remember this episode as the moment when Community' s self-reflexive humor became an ouroboros. It began to consume itself. Said cannibalism was most visible in a focus group subplot that also served as this week's game of "how can the writers physically isolate Chevy Chase from the rest of the cast?"
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Mormon momentum | Rationalist Association

Mormon momentum | Rationalist Association

rationalist.org.uk — When Rick Santorum dropped out of the race for the Republican Party's presidential nomination, many conservative evangelical voters in the US knew they'd have to throw their weight behind Mitt Romney, who has since won the Republican nomination. Predictably, evangelical leaders immediately began publicly to support Romney - a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, i.e. a Mormon - despite longstanding denominational suspicion of his faith. If their eventual embracing of the candidate came with private rending of garments and gnashing of teeth, many of the more outspoken leaders hid it well in their public statements.
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In God They Trust | Rationalist Association

In God They Trust | Rationalist Association

rationalist.org.uk — An American businessman enters a town, and wants to establish himself as someone who can be trusted, someone to do business with. It's 1904. He has no contacts. But no matter: he knows there's a surefire way to pass the credit checks of his new neighbours. The businessman joins a church. Max Weber noticed this peculiar system of trust on a trip to America, and observed that "Admission to the congregation is recognised as an absolute guarantee of the moral qualities of a gentleman, especially of those qualities required in business matters." Of course, he added, scarcely a generation after his visit, the habit died away.
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Can Romney break the Hoover Curse?

Can Romney break the Hoover Curse?

Slate — Does Mitt Romney risk being another Herbert Hoover? In 1925, a successful advertising executive wrote a wildly popular book that depicted Jesus Christ as the ideal American businessman. Bruce Barton's The Man Nobody Knows imagined a strong courageous, Republican-leaning leader of men. He was handsome, resolute, and his "muscles were so strong that when He drove the moneychangers out, no one dared to oppose him!" The publication of The Man Nobody Knows is arguably when a prototype of Warner Sallman's strong-jawed all-American visage of the Head of Christ took its place in American popular culture.
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