Old White Dudes Tell the Democrats to Forget about Abortion
Writing in the New York Times, Thomas Groome, a professor of theology at Boston College,…
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How the Catholic Church Broke the Health Insurance it Advocated For
It was one of the more remarkable moments in the saga of the “repeal/replace” of…
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The Irony of Moral Panic over Surplus Men
You know the moral panic over unemployed men has reached epic proportions when it’s enough…
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From “Jane Roe” to “Roe No More”: Norma McCorvey’s Long Strange Trip Through the Politics of Abortion
Roe v. Wade plaintiff Norma McCorvey’s death this past Saturday, February 18, closed a life that not…
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What’s Rome Got to Do With It?: Bannon, Burke, and Douthat’s “Trumpian” Pope
What should we make of the recent blockbuster revelations in the New York Times about…
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Unified Catholic Opposition to Trump’s “Muslim Ban” is Wishful Thinking
It’s understandable that with people grasping for a light in the darkness in the wake…
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The March for Life: Grassroots Movement or Agitprop?
Every year at this time the March for Life descends on Washington, like anti-abortion swallows returning to Capistrano.
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Why Feminism’s Big Tent Isn’t Big Enough for the Anti-Abortion Movement
Those big, bad pro-abortion feminists! To hear it from even stalwarts of the mainstream liberal…
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Will “Church Militants” Be Marching for Trump?
Conservative interpretations of Catholic theology are often more influential on the religious and political right than they’re often given credit for.
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In Case You Missed Them, the Top Pope Francis Quotes of 2016
He’s had a weird year.
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