In Case You Missed Them, the Top Pope Francis Quotes of 2016
He’s had a weird year.
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Meet the New Christian Right, Same as the Old Christian Right
It may not be your father’s Christian right, with new players and new tactics, but it’s still the Christian right and it’s more empowered than its been since the glory days of Ronald Reagan.
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Special Hell: Progressive Catholics Reckon With the Rise of Trump
To many, Catholic support for Trump feels like a repudiation of the Catholic social justice tradition.
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The Catholic Apocalypse Cometh
How “religious liberty” may have helped swing the election.
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Ross Douthat: Trump Is Women’s Fault for Not Having More Babies
According to NYT columnist Ross Douthat, the lousy choices available to us on election day are all women’s fault.
Read MoreMeddling Bishops Accuse Clinton of Meddling
It takes a certain kind of chutzpah for an entity that has long meddled in…
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WikiLacks: Did Clinton Campaign Mock Catholics? Not Really
Hillary is being pilloried for her “assault on Catholics.”
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What Pence and Kaine Reveal About Divides in Catholicism
Both Pence and Kaine were raised in middle-class, Irish-Catholic families. That’s where their similarities end.
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Is the Rise of “Nones” Actually the Decline of Catholics?
Catholics are suffering the largest decline among major religious groups.
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It’s Not Me, It’s You: Catholic Values Dumping Trump
Evangelicals will seemingly overlook anything about Trump, but Catholics won’t.
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