If Abortion Isn’t Health Care, What is It?
Republican Congressman Chris Smith, a conservative Catholic, introduces “No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act,” says abortion is “not health care.”
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The (Mostly Catholic) Anti-Abortion Roe v. Wade Schlep
The Catholic Church subsidizes the event so significantly they should just call it the Catholic March for Life.
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Vatican Pitbulls Make Cardinal
How do you rise to the level of cardinal under Pope Benedict XVI? Two new American cardinals reveal a pattern.
Read MoreWill the Pope be Served…
… in our lifetime?
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Don’t Cry For Me Argentina, Cry For the Catholic Church
Two women drinking coffee together in a Buenos Aires café during the dictatorship (1973-1983) could have been arrested merely for being together. Today they can marry. What a difference a few decades can make. Eva Peron was right in her address to her people from the balcony, as crooned…
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Vatican Equates Women’s Ordination with Priest Pedophilia?
While Protestant churches like the Presbyterian Church USA have their annual gatherings in the summer, the institutional Roman Catholic Church, with no such meetings to worry about, uses the season to issue documents from on high. According to
Read MoreCatholic Prof Teaches that Same-Sex Marriage is Violation of ‘Natural Law’
But it’s even more disturbing that a prof at a state school paid was paid by the church.
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Will Sisters Save the Catholic Church?
To turn suddenly to sisters as the rescue workers for a male-led institution is to saddle them with a clean-up operation that would “naturally” be a woman’s job in patriarchy.
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Offer to Lesbian Scholar Rescinded by Jesuit School
Marquette may be in the vanguard of Catholic institutions that are growing increasingly parochial, shaping the social sciences and perhaps eventually the physical sciences to Roman kyriarchal ideology rather than to the gold standard in the field. It is a sad loss of what might have become a world-class university.
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Father Does Not Know Best: How To Fix the Catholic Church
From an all-male hierarchy that trains priests to look only to their superiors for guidance, to a theological emphasis on secrecy, to the “creeping infallibility” that confers divine authority on church leaders, the Catholic church needs reform—at a structural level. And it’s up to the laity to begin the process.
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