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Call For A Catholic Tea Party Movement Claims Bishops Conference Is Too Liberal

Sarah Posner.

Conservative Catholic group urges a tea party for Catholics, to oppose health care reform.

Catholic Bishops Now Push Health Care Bill They Held Up

Sarah Posner.

USCCB claims a bill that doesn't sufficiently restrict abortion is not "genuine health care reform."

Stupak Forming Fault Lines in Left-Leaning Faith Groups?

Sarah Posner.

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? 

Should Churches Get Tax Exemptions?

Daniel Schultz.

In the wake of the Catholic Bishops' lobbying hard for the Stupak Amendment a pastor weighs in on tax exemptions for Churches.

Why Don’t Churches Have to Disclose Lobbying Activities?

Sarah Posner.

A Democrat in Congress has called for changes to the IRS rules on church issue advocacy. That’s not likely to change, but perhaps some transparency is in order.

Pro-Choice Groups Livid Over Passage of Stupak Amendment

Sarah Posner.

Groups had compromised with anti-choice ideologues to gain passage of broader health reform measure rewarded with biggest rollback of reproductive rights in decades.

Politics, Not Religion, At Heart of Health Care Reform Wrangle on Abortion

Sarah Posner.

Despite repeated compromises from pro-choice Democrats, anti-choice Dems threaten to kill health care reform unless all their demands are met.  

Catholic Bishops to Use Mass to Lobby Against Health Care?

Frances Kissling.

Both pro-choice and pro-life supporters of health care reform must speak out against this immoral use of religious services.

A Tale of Two Abortion Narratives: Dems Overreaching on Abortion?

Daniel Schultz.

Are the Democrats “overreaching on abortion” as some have suggested, or are some religious leaders willing to tank health care for minor gains on pet issues? Depends on whom you ask. 

‘Soul Murder’ in the American Workplace

Peter Laarman.

As the media yawns at the latest unemployment numbers, our columnist seeks religious leadership on the taboo subject of our dysfunctional relationship to work. For even if the economy recovers and “full employment” returns, we will still be encountering a workplace that remains a site of utter terror in some instances and a site of routine abuse and low-grade anxiety in others.

Conservative 'Cafeteria Catholics' Favor Opposition to Gay Marriage Over Health Care

Paul Gorrell.

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?

Leahy’s Immigration Provision Sows Sex Panic Among Key Religious Groups

Peter Laarman.

Who is really pointing the dagger to the heart of immigration reform, the senator who seeks to include permanent partners (including gays) or the Bishops and evangelicals who oppose it?