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      Remembering ‘MOVE’ as American religion on the 40th anniversary of Philadelphia bombing its own residents
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      Since You’ve Been Gone: The Politics of Hysterectomy and the Impossibility of ‘Choice’
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      Remembering ‘MOVE’ as American religion on the 40th anniversary of Philadelphia bombing its own residents
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Patricia Miller

Patricia Miller is a Washington, DC–based journalist and the author of Good Catholics: The Battle Over Abortion in the Catholic Church. Her work at the intersection of politics, sex and religion has appeared in The Atlantic, Salon, The Nation, Huffington Post, RH Reality Check and Ms. Magazine.

Archive, Culture, OMFG, Sex/Gender/JusticeFebruary 7, 2025

Silence of the Nuns — Oscar Darling ‘Conclave’ Contains Subtle Indictment of Catholic Church’s Views on Women

By Patricia Miller

There are many pleasures for students of the Catholic Church in Conclave—which recently received eight…

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(A)theologies, Archive, Election 2024, Media Analysis, Politics/Law, Sex/Gender/JusticeJuly 12, 2024

Women are (Still) Fleeing the Church — And the Cause is (Still) Pretty Clear

By Patricia Miller

Eight years ago here at RD I noted that women were fleeing organized religion—as measured…

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(A)theologies, Archive, Books, Christian Nationalism, New Books, OMFG, Politics/Law, Religious Liberty, Sex/Gender/JusticeOctober 14, 2022

George Weigel’s Revisionist History Casts Vatican II as a Christian Nationalist Handbook

By Patricia Miller

The upcoming 60th anniversary of the Second Vatican Council, better known as Vatican II, will…

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Sex/Gender/JusticeApril 10, 2019

Anti-Choice Groups Prove It’s Not Just About Abortion Anymore

By Patricia Miller

Anti-choice groups are highly critical after learning that one of their own has agreed to contraception referral in order to qualify for Title X funding.

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Politics/Law, Sex/Gender/JusticeApril 2, 2019

Catholic Bishops Fund Anti-Choice ‘Clinics’ Set to Receive Trump Title X Funding

By Patricia Miller

The Trump administration is funneling $5.1 million in federal Title X family planning funding to a chain of faith-based anti-abortion medical clinics called Obria. Turns out that the Catholic Church has funded them too.

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History/Theology, Politics/Law, Religious Liberty, Sex/Gender/JusticeNovember 2, 2018

Catholic Bishops’ Religious Liberty Fight Enables Anti-Jewish Discrimination (Updated)

By Patricia Miller

It’s not hard to extend the bishops’ logic on discrimination against LGBTQ foster parents to the assertion that Christian social services agencies shouldn’t be “discriminated” against for refusing to work with Jews and Muslims.

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OMFG, Sex/Gender/JusticeOctober 24, 2018

DC Attorney General Goes ‘Religious Freedom’ Route to Investigate Catholic Church

By Patricia Miller

Any felony activity the DC attorney general discovers in the course of his investigation could be forwarded to the U.S. attorney.

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Politics/Law, Sex/Gender/JusticeOctober 22, 2018

Is This Finally the Reckoning for the Catholic Church on Sexual Abuse?

By Patricia Miller

A Justice Department investigation marks a major turning point in the decades-long sexual abuse crisis, but there are indications the Church will not surrender without a fight.

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Christian Nationalism, OMFG, Sex/Gender/JusticeOctober 3, 2018

‘Son Worry’ and the Hypocrisy of the ‘Purity’ Movement

By Patricia Miller

Those in the throes of “son panic” contend that the greatest danger regarding sexual assault is to the reputations of innocent men. But there’s a problem here.

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Christian Nationalism, History/Theology, Politics/Law, Sex/Gender/JusticeSeptember 27, 2018

This Radical Religious Freedom Dissent Reveals Kavanaugh’s Views on Sex and Power

By Patricia Miller

Both the sweeping religious liberty claims defended by Kavanaugh and the assertions of his defenders come from the same place: a desire to reassert traditional, patriarchal sexual mores.

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