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Catholic neocons are ratcheting up their attacks on those of us who dare to uphold BOTH the Church's teaching on abortion AND her teaching on Just War. God forbid that Catholics even talk about the war, about the Church’s social teaching, or other issues where the Church dares stray from the agenda of the Republican Party. Apparently, we have misplaced the real locus of infallibility, which lies not in the Vatican, but the White House. [Read More]

Just as Christians believe that we are made in the image and likeness of God, Muslims see themselves as a reflection of Allah. And as we wish to conform our will to God's Will, they attempt to conform their wills to Allah. But here, the similarities end. If Allah's will, unlike God's, is not bound up with rationality, then the discerning of that will takes a very different shape. In attempting to understand God's Will, Christians can turn to the world around us, to natural law, to history, to tradition. We see the rationality—the consistent reasonableness—of God's Will in the world that He created. But in Islam, the appearance of order is only that—an appearance. To the extent that the created world seems rational, it is only because Allah wishes it to appear so. [Read More]

In the eyes of today's "conservative" American Catholics (not to mention evangelical Christians), the Christian populations of the Middle East—the oldest continuing Christian communities in the world—are simply invisible. Palestinians are all Muslims; there are no Melkites. Lebanese are all Muslims; there are no Maronites or Syrian Catholics or Orthodox. Ditto for Syria herself. Iraqis are Sunni and Shiite and Kurd; Chaldean and Assyrian Christians simply don't exist. And everyone who lives within the borders of Israel is an observant Jew. By acting as if they were dealing only with Muslims, both the United States and Israel have helped to change the demographic reality in the Middle East. Palestinian Christians have left in droves. Much of the Maronite population is now in the United States (and there was another massive influx after the bombing last summer). The Chaldean and Assyrian Christians in Iraq have largely fled the country. [Read More]

When the spiritual head of Christendom opposes the war you wish to launch, you take his opposition very seriously. We might not be surprised that a non-Catholic President would feel no compunction in simply disregarding the direct and insistent appeal of Pope John Paul II to refrain from war; but what excuse do his Catholic supporters have? After his electoral loss, Rick Santorum did not search for a job promoting the Catholic "values" upon which he had risen to power and fame; instead, he has taken a position as senior fellow at the neoconservative Ethics and Public Policy Center where he established, and now directs, the "America's Enemies" program. There have been almost 50 million abortions in the United States since 1973; but for this Catholic "social conservative," the greatest threats to America just happen to be Iran and Syria [Read More]

If our principles consist entirely of a series of "values," then we can easily convince ourselves that political circumstances—elections, cold hard cash—justify stressing some and deemphasizing others. We can see this process at work in the current pandering of Newt Gingrich to the Christian right, as he desperately seeks the Republican nomination for president in 2008. After his resignation from the House of Representatives, he took a cushy job at a neoconservative think tank (the American Enterprise Institute and spent much of his time as a cheerleader for expanding the war in Iraq into Iran and Syria, but now he's stressing a different set of values. [Read More]

Americans do not have to fear the imposition of Islamic law in the United States—not because Muslims here have no interest in establishing sharia but because, when sharia comes to the United States, it will come democratically. The Constitution, Dr. Khalid Siddiqui explained, is a "pure Islamic document," and he detailed how Muslim doctors such as himself would be able to frame the debate over, say, a nationwide ban on the sale and consumption of alcohol purely in terms of health. Ditto with tobacco, and with pork. [Read More]

Throughout the war in Iraq, we have heard rumors of the possible use of “tactical nuclear strikes.” As the Bush administration (without even the pretense of congressional approval) prepares to expand the war into Iran, ostensibly to prevent Iran from developing her own nuclear weapons, officials refuse to take the “nuclear option” off of the table. [Read More]