3 Reasons Catholic Bishops Are Holding Their Tongues on GOP Health Care Debacle
When President Obama proposed requiring health plans to cover common contraceptives without charge, the Catholic…
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GOP isn’t Pro-Life After All
The GOP’s morally indefensible position on maternity care shows the hollowness of the party’s claim…
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GOP “Stealthcare” Bill Reveals Catholic Bishops’ Priorities
It’s unlikely that many of the Catholic bishops who voted last week to make permanent…
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Pence’s Prayer Breakfast Appearance Underscores Fractured American Catholicism
The annual National Catholic Prayer Breakfast is hardly a bipartisan or nonpolitical event. It was…
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Five Signs Atwood’s “Handmaid’s Tale” Dystopia May Be Nigh
Pending dystopia, it appears, is in the eye of the beholder. Here at RD, Diane…
Read MoreIrony Really is Dead: GOP Plans to Send Adulterous Third Wife of Serial Philanderer as Ambassador to Vatican
The Republican Party has maintained a death-grip on protestations of moral authority on matters of…
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“Pro-Life” Has Officially Lost its Meaning
For anyone whose political memory dates back more than a decade or two, the term…
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Archbishop Drops the Girl Scouts Amid Alarmist Rhetoric and Fake Accusations
Robert Jones of PRRI has an insightful column in the New York Times about the…
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The Problem with Moral Nuance on Abortion for Democrats
The New York Times received numerous responses to an opinion piece it recently published—from a man—about how…
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Hillary Clinton Won the Catholic Vote After All, So Dems Should Stay Pro-Choice, Right?
A more accurate analysis of the 2016 presidential election than the preliminary exit polls shows…
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