Will Obama cave to Catholic bishops on birth control coverage?
If you want to lower the number of abortions, you support better access to birth control. Except if you're a Catholic bishop!Pro-choicers cheered when the Department of Health and Human Services agreed...
View ArticleA birth-control compromise could divide the right
Call it the Taco Bell frontier. When President Obama personally announced today that the foretold compromise on contraceptive coverage would involve insurers' directly offering no-co-pay contraception...
View ArticleCatholic hypocrisy at its worst
For the record, the priest who married my wife and me in 1967 advised us that we could in good faith practice birth control. He reasoned that as Pope Paul VI was then preparing an encyclical regarding...
View ArticleBishops seek liberty to impose birth control dogma
The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops held an administrative meeting in Washington Tuesday and Wednesday, after which they vowed to "continue our vigorous efforts at education and public advocacy on...
View ArticleA Catholic school’s anti-gay snub
Remember last month, when the Vatican issued a smackdown to American nuns for their "radical feminist themes," like not being vocal enough about opposing same-sex marriage? Now, just to really hammer...
View ArticleCatholic Church: Time for a new war on birth control
Until Rush Limbaugh called Sandra Fluke a slut, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops had almost convinced the public that fighting the contraceptive coverage mandate in the Affordable Care...
View ArticleNot all Catholics are for Paul Ryan
When Mitt Romney anointed Paul Ryan as his running mate Saturday, conservative pundits were quick to point out what a coup that choice was, and how Ryan would be helpful in swaying the elusive, hotly...
View ArticleBishops: God votes Republican
Cardinal Timothy Dolan, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, is scheduled to deliver the concluding benediction at the Republican National Convention next week, after Mitt Romney’s...
View ArticleGay marriage won’t be mandatory
If you live in a version of reality where the gains of one group are an automatic negation of everything you stand for, these must be very challenging times. Because in your world, every time a lady...
View ArticleClergy are not doctors — and the U.S. has its own Savita Halappanavars
The death of Savita Halappanavar -- the woman who died of sepsis in Ireland after being denied her request for termination of a nonviable pregnancy -- drew outrage and attention in the United States...
View ArticleCatholic Bishops reject Obama’s latest contraception compromise
The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops has rejected the Obama Administration's latest attempt to ensure that women can access no-cost contraceptive coverage without violating the rights of...
View ArticleWho opposes an anti-trafficking law?
For the first time ever, the nation's signature law to combat sex and labor trafficking has fallen victim to the politics of abortion and contraception for trafficking survivors -- and an ongoing...
View ArticleThe pope vs. the bishops: Challenges to building a church for the poor
In under a year, Pope Francis has managed to rouse and inspire Catholics across the world with his calls of a "church for the poor.” He has done this without making any changes to church doctrine.Last...
View ArticleWill Obama cave to Catholic bishops on birth control coverage?
A powerful Catholic lobby group thinks it has the president\'s ear on contraception coverage. Are they right?
View ArticleCatholic hypocrisy at its worst
Bishops condone much more direct contradictions of church dogma. The birth control uproar is a cynical power play
View ArticleBishops seek liberty to impose birth control dogma
Catholic leaders redouble efforts to deny birth control to non-believing employees
View ArticleA Catholic school's anti-gay snub
When a student wins the Matthew Shepard Scholarship, the bishop steps in -- and everybody loses
View ArticleCatholic Church: Time for a new war on birth control
Notre Dame and other Catholic institutions have revived their fight against contraception with a new lawsuit
View ArticleNot all Catholics are for Paul Ryan
The V.P. pick hardly ensures the Catholic vote. On gay marriage, birth control and more, a majority back Obama
View ArticleBishops: God votes Republican
Cardinal Dolan's benediction at the GOP Convention makes clear the Catholic bishops have taken sides
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