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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.

Patricia Miller, RD Blog, Sexuality/GenderJanuary 20, 2015

Pope Francis, Breeding Bunnies and Ideological Colonization

By Patricia Miller

Pope Francis confounds me. How can a man who is so eloquent and obviously heartfelt…

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OMFG, Patricia Miller, RD BlogJanuary 2, 2015

How Mario Cuomo Made the World Safe for Pro-Choice Catholics

By Patricia Miller

Former New York Gov. Mario Cuomo, who passed away yesterday at 82, is being remembered…

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OMFG, Patricia Miller, RD BlogDecember 19, 2014

Winners and Losers in the “Visitation” of American Nuns?

By Patricia Miller

Pope Francis: Winner When not busy sending dogs to heaven (oops, not really) or brokering the…

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OMFG, Patricia Miller, RD Blog, Sexuality/GenderDecember 9, 2014

Pope Francis vs. the Bishops: An “Overblown” Narrative?

By Patricia Miller

Writing in Crux, associate editor John Allen cautions against the “overblown” narrative of “perceived resistance from…

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Archive, Patricia Miller, RD BlogDecember 1, 2014

WaPo OpEd: Pope Francis and the Koch Bros Love and Serve the Poor Together

By Patricia Miller

In case you were worried that the Koch Brothers were just money-grubbing industrialists hell-bent on…

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OMFG, Patricia Miller, RD Blog, Sexuality/GenderNovember 20, 2014

Pope, Christian Conservatives Team Up to Promote Patriarchy

By Patricia Miller

The Vatican held an interfaith conference this week on the promotion of the “traditional”—that is,…

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OMFG, Patricia Miller, Politics/Law, RD Blog, Science & Technology, Sexuality/GenderNovember 17, 2014

Circuit Court Rejects Priests for Life Contraception Challenge

By Patricia Miller

As if further proof were required that challenges to the contraceptive mandate in the Affordable…

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OMFG, Patricia Miller, RD Blog, Sexuality/GenderNovember 14, 2014

US Bishops Meeting: Pope Who?

By Patricia Miller

The U.S. bishops’ semi-annual meeting, which concluded in Baltimore on Thursday, was one giant raspberry…

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OMFG, Patricia Miller, RD BlogNovember 11, 2014

“De-Ratzingerization” Continues as Pope Francis Removes Conservative Cardinal Burke

By Patricia Miller

Pope Francis finally dropped the long-expected axe on Cardinal Raymond Burke, one of the curia’s…

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OMFG, Patricia Miller, Politics/Law, RD Blog, Sexuality/GenderNovember 6, 2014

The Duck Dynastization of the Bishops’ “Religious Liberty” Meme

By Patricia Miller

What, exactly, have the Catholic bishops wrought by inflaming the religious right with the idea…

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