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    • White Smoke, Black Pope? Pope Leo XIV, first US pontiff, has African roots
      White Smoke, Black Pope? Pope Leo XIV, first US pontiff, has African roots
    • HABEMUS PAPAM: New Pope Selection Signals Church’s Concerns about Spread of US, Global Authoritarianism
      HABEMUS PAPAM: New Pope Selection Signals Church’s Concerns about Spread of US, Global Authoritarianism
    • EXPERTS AGREE: what Trump is doing is fascism
      EXPERTS AGREE: what Trump is doing is fascism
  • Sex/Gender/Justice
    • HABEMUS PAPAM: New Pope Selection Signals Church’s Concerns about Spread of US, Global Authoritarianism
      HABEMUS PAPAM: New Pope Selection Signals Church’s Concerns about Spread of US, Global Authoritarianism
    • EXPERTS AGREE: what Trump is doing is fascism
      EXPERTS AGREE: what Trump is doing is fascism
    • What The Roman Catholic Church needs is a wholesale reset, not a new Pope
      What The Roman Catholic Church needs is a wholesale reset, not a new Pope
  • Christian Nationalism
    • Catholic Right Support isn’t the Only Reason Trump Believes He Can Get Away with Mockery of Catholicism
      Catholic Right Support isn’t the Only Reason Trump Believes He Can Get Away with Mockery of Catholicism
    • EXPERTS AGREE: what Trump is doing is fascism
      EXPERTS AGREE: what Trump is doing is fascism
    • My Book on The Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity Was One of Hundreds Just Banned by the Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth
      My Book on The Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity Was One of Hundreds Just Banned by the Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth
  • Politics
    • Catholic Right Support isn’t the Only Reason Trump Believes He Can Get Away with Mockery of Catholicism
      Catholic Right Support isn’t the Only Reason Trump Believes He Can Get Away with Mockery of Catholicism
    • EXPERTS AGREE: what Trump is doing is fascism
      EXPERTS AGREE: what Trump is doing is fascism
    • Once Again the ADL Antisemitism Audit Overreaches — Including an Embarrassing Failure to Recognize a Jewish Ritual
      Once Again the ADL Antisemitism Audit Overreaches — Including an Embarrassing Failure to Recognize a Jewish Ritual

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.

StoriesApril 1, 2014

Again, Vatican Punishes Gender Equality More Swiftly Than Sexual Abuse

By Patricia Miller

A Franciscan peace activist is removed from public life as a priest for celebrating mass with a woman.

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UncategorizedApril 1, 2014

Again, Vatican Punishes Gender Equality More Swiftly Than Sexual Abuse

By Patricia Miller

A Franciscan peace activist is removed from public life as a priest for celebrating mass with a woman.

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UncategorizedMarch 27, 2014

Obama’s Compromise With Catholic Bishops Was a Bad Idea

By Patricia Miller

As Obama meets Francis it’s a good time to remember that he gave an inch and the Bishops may just get their mile too.

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StoriesMarch 27, 2014

Why Obama’s Compromise With Catholic Bishops Was a Bad Idea

By Patricia Miller

As Obama meets Francis it’s a good time to remember that he gave an inch and the Bishops may just get their mile too.

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UncategorizedMarch 25, 2014

Can You Be Liberal and Catholic?

By Patricia Miller

And if you are, can you get some media love?

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(A)theologies, Archive, Science & Technology, Sexuality/Gender, StoriesMarch 24, 2014

Hobby Lobby Case Isn’t Really About Contraception

By Patricia Miller

This “religious freedom” battle headed to the Supreme Court is largely about abortion, though it’s based on the US Catholic Bishops’ efforts to exploit a small gap in the science that’s long past. 

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UncategorizedMarch 24, 2014

Can You Be Liberal and Catholic?

By Patricia Miller

And if you are, can you get some media love?

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StoriesMarch 21, 2014

Francis Must Make Changes to Have a Real Effect

By Patricia Miller

An exchange over Francis’ first year.

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UncategorizedMarch 21, 2014

Francis Must Make Changes to Have a Real Effect

By Patricia Miller

An exchange over Francis’ first year.

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StoriesMarch 20, 2014

Debate Heats Up Over “Francis Effect”

By Patricia Miller

Is the pontiff’s popularity all heat and no light?

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