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1 week ago | 
msnbc.com | Anthea Butler
As the Catholic Church’s College of Cardinals enters the conclave to select the next leader of the church Wednesday, one of the most pressing questions is what part of the world that leader will come from. While Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle from the Philippines is considered to be a front-runner, known for his affable style and karaoke skills, there has been buzz about the possibility of an African pope.
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2 weeks ago | 
msnbc.com | Anthea Butler
Funerals can be contentious events, and Pope Francis’ funeral Saturday — which dozens of (often combative) world leaders will be attending — is no exception.
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2 weeks ago | 
yahoo.com | Anthea Butler
Funerals can often be contentious events, and Pope Francis’ funeral on Saturday — at which dozens of (often combative) world leaders will be seated in the same space — will be no exception.
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3 weeks ago | 
msnbc.com | Anthea Butler
Pope Francis, the first pontiff from Latin America and the first from the Jesuit order to lead the Catholic Church, died on Monday morning at 88. Cardinal Kevin Farrell announced the Pope’s death in a statement released by the Vatican: “At 7:35 this morning, the Bishop of Rome, Francis, returned to the house of the Father.” His successor will be chosen soon during a papal conclave.
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3 weeks ago | 
flipboard.com | Anthea Butler
12 hours agoThe first Latin American pope, known for speaking out against social injustice, leaves behind a complicated legacy. Pope Francis, the 266th leader of the Roman Catholic Church who ushered in a progressive era for the Vatican, died Monday. He was 88. Francis’ death follows a five-week hospitalization …
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3 weeks ago | 
msnbc.com | Anthea Butler
“This is really — I hope — going to be one of the greatest Easters ever,” President Donald Trump told faith leaders he invited to the White House last week, “because we have something going that I don’t think this country has seen in 100 years.
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4 weeks ago | 
scholarsarchive.byu.edu | Anthea Butler
KeywordsSister Saints, Colleen Mcdannell, Mormon women, polygamy, representationAbstractWhen I received my copy of Sister Saints: Mormon Women Since the End of Polygamy, I stared at the cover for a while. Surely Colleen McDannell did not pick this image, I thought, because the cover is reminiscent of what I would consider to be a nineteenth-century version of Mormon womanhood: a young mother playing with her children, looking down upon them lovingly, seemingly free from care.
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4 weeks ago | 
whitetoolong.net | Anthea Butler |Robert P. Jones
As wrote last week, I was shocked to learn that my book, White Too Long: The Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity, along with six other prominent books in religious studies, were among the 381 books that were banned and removed from the shelves at the US Naval Academy. “This is the first college-level library banning we have seen,” noted Jennifer Finney Boylan, president of PEN America and also author of a book that was banned.
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2 months ago | 
msnbc.com | Anthea Butler
There’s a reason why Catholicism is one of the most misunderstood — and the most portrayed — religions in the movies. “Conclave,” an Academy Award nominee for best picture, based on the 2016 novel by British writer Robert Harris, hits all the right notes as it illuminates the arcane world of the Vatican and its rituals surrounding a pope’s death.
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Feb 15, 2025 | 
yahoo.com | Anthea Butler
Pope Francis is rattling the Trump administration this week with a letter to the U.S. bishops regarding the president’s mass deportation policies. Calling them a “violation of the dignity of many men and women and entire families,” the letter upset President Donald Trump’s “border czar,” Tom Homan, who, when asked by a reporter about the pope’s “harsh words,” bleated out, “I got harsh words for the pope. The pope ought to fix the Catholic Church.”Really?
