Stupak Forming Fault Lines in Left-Leaning Faith Groups?
With left-leaning faith groups unable to agree on abortion issues, the religious right—with the help of anti-choice Democrats—were able to convince Democratic strategists that they spoke for people of faith. Will the inability to take a strong stance for women’s rights split religious coalitions?
Are US Bishops Responsible for Anti-Abortion Amendment in Health Care Reform?
As so many pundits ask whether it was the 11th-hour activism of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops that enabled the anti-choice provision to be inserted into the health care bill, our analyst explores a different possibility: Democratic strategy.
Not only does a new study point to a thriving religious left, but the impact may even be greater than the numbers suggest.
Before she felt her presence compromised the peacekeeping Sr Donna Quinn was escorting women past protesters at a women's health clinic.
Both pro-choice and pro-life supporters of health care reform must speak out against this immoral use of religious services.
Are Michael Moore’s Films Inspired by His Catholicism?
Catholicism is well known as a determined foe of communism, yet most Americans are unaware that Catholicism has also been highly critical of capitalism.
US News and World Report’s Dan Gilgoff implies that only those with access to the White House are worth writing about.
Conservative 'Cafeteria Catholics' Favor Opposition to Gay Marriage Over Health Care
As the debate over gay marriage is reignited in New Jersey, the local Roman Catholic bishops threw themselves in with a zeal they have yet to display in the fight for universal health care, despite theological requirements that they fight for it. Are they acting like “cafeteria Catholics,” picking and choosing which parts of the Church’s mandates to follow?
Senator Ted Kennedy: A Catholic We Could Canonize
Though he was never one to wear his religion on his sleeve, Sen. Kennedy’s liberal record of working for social justice falls squarely within the Catholic tradition.
The Best and the Brightest of the Catholic Bad Girls
We picketed bishops and Popes, stole their dresses, stood up at the consecration of the Eucharist and said the words out loud. We are the bad girls of Catholic feminism, and we have stood up, over and over again, for women’s freedom.
The Unsung Speech at Notre Dame, A Postmortem
While President Obama’s speech has been praised, criticized, and otherwise picked over, an eminent conservative chosen to “balance” the president’s pro-choice position gave a surprisingly philosophical talk that may have unsettled conservative activists.
Common Ground on “Life”
A conservative and a progressive find common ground on organ donation. What do you think?
It's difficult to believe that Newt's role as critic of Obama's foreign policy has as much to do with patriotism as with raw political ambition.
Vatican Unhappy with Obama’s Ambassador Picks
The Vatican has thus far given the thumbs down on the Obama admin’s first couple of candidates for ambassador. One wonders whether the U.S. routinely allows countries to decide who our ambassador should be?
Pro-Life Tempest Over Obama’s Notre Dame Speech
Obama’s scheduled Notre Dame commencement has a small, largely powerless, group of Orthodox Catholics singing for publicity to an obliging media. Why did Notre Dame take the bait?
Catholic-Jewish Tension and the Rededication of Catholic Holocaust Memorial
At a time when the Pope isn’t doing much to help Jewish-Catholic relations, the Boston Diocese reaches out.
Pope Benedict has a routine that other world leaders might covet.
The Portuguese Cardinal's warning manages to be a cocktail of Islamophobia, racism, sexism, xenophobia...
Searching for Sex, Life and Abortion on Catholic Google
What happens when you search for contraception on the new Catholic-sanctioned search engine?
The Religious Right attacks Obama's pick for Secretary of Health and Human Services as a "pro-life nightmare."
A priest in South Carolina tells parishioners to skip communion if they voted for Obama.
Many US Catholics defied bishops and voted for Obama, but this has only invigorated the Catholic Right.
A video from Catholicvote.com trots out shopworn stereotypes about the single-issue Catholic voter.
Proposition 2, 8, 102: Catholic Bishops emerge from their obsession with abortion to a twin obsession with gay rights.
A new report (Christian-written) report claims that Christian persecution is on the rise due to Islamic fundamentalism and other factors. A more, um, Christian report might have acknowledged shared responsibility for violence.