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Romney’s Speech, and Boehner’s Catholicism

By Sarah Posner

…is voting record “at variance from one of the Church’s most ancient moral teachings. From the apostles to the present, the magisterium of the Church has insisted that those in power are morally obliged to preference the needs of the poor. Your record in support of legislation to address the desperate needs of the poor is among the worst in Congress.” In introducing Dolan, Boehner pronounced that the Cardinal understood that “the preferential optio…

The Internets Own Your Religion

By Hussein Rashid

…what is at stake in allowing people to register the names of religious communities, but we on the religion side do, and we should make sure we give feedback. You can find information submitting comments here, or tweet here….

LDS Church Brings Religious Pressure to Zoning Fight

By Joanna Brooks

…aign drumbeat over Romney’s offshore bank accounts, and the net effect is a characterization of Romney (and with him, Mormonism) that draws on old-time Mormon stereotypes of insularity, secrecy, and top-down authoritarianism. It would be wonderful if these stereotypes could be dismissed out of hand as bearing no relation to reality….

Does Analytic Thinking Erode Religious Belief?

By Andrew Aghapour

…to white-matter neurons. Bragging makes us feel really good, which is why Facebook is better than sex. If that concerns you, don’t worry, because the pharmaceutical industry is going to save marriage. Shakespeare tickles the visual association cortex. Dopamine makes us do bad things, but meditation makes your brain quicker. Bloody Mary (the apparition, not the drink) is probably a facial recognition error. Babies are a little bit racist. Like the…

Only 5 Million “Real” Catholics in the U.S.?

By Marian Ronan

…nal problems, radical feminism, and spending too much time on justice and peace. As a result, for the next ﬁve years, a conservative archbishop will control whatever the group does. In the outpouring of protests that followed the Vatican statement, one message comes through clearly: for the vast majority of us, the sisters embody the Catholic faith. They taught it to us, they model it, they press on when others give up. They were the ﬁrst and brav…

CPCs Hire Christians Only With Federal Funds? Thank Obama

By Sarah Posner

…riedewald, he told me in an email that those materials are “proprietary to each applicant organization, and are not ours to share.” Among the criteria the potential providers must meet are “maintain[ing] a pro-life mission and agree[ing] not to promote, refer, or counsel in favor of abortion or abortifacients as an option to a crisis or unplanned pregnancy” and “agree[ing] not to promote the teaching or philosophy of any religion while providing s…

Anti-Science Bill Passes Tennessee House

By Lauri Lebo

…n insists that the bill is not anti-evolution, but merely about improving teaching in the public schools, comments by the bill’s supporters reveal a stunning hostility towards science and education. Andy Sher writing for the Chattanooga Free Press, quotes bill-supporter Rep. Richard Floyd, R-Chattanooga, saying that “since the late ‘50s, early ‘60s when we let the intellectual bullies hijack our education system, we’ve been on a slippery slope.” F…

Bishops Double Down on Issues of Pelvis Over Poverty

By Peter Montgomery

…stance on reproductive issues, and their silence on others. The bishops released a memo reaffirming their rejection of the “radically flawed” compromise on insurance coverage of contraception proposed by the Obama administration. As Dan Maguire noted, Bishop Robert McManus forced Anna Maria College to withdraw its invitation to Victoria Kennedy, Sen. Edward Kennedy’s widow, to give the school’s commencement address. And Xavier University, a Jesuit…

Kirk Cameron’s Monumental Reveals Subtle Influence of Christian Reconstructionism

By Julie Ingersoll

…mily government, church (ecclesiastical) government, and civil government. Each sphere is charged with certain responsibilities and restricted from activities belonging to another sphere: the family is to raise and educate children; the church is to spread the gospel and provide ecclesiastical discipline; and the civil government should do nothing more than punish evildoers and protect property. Looking to the civil government to do anything more…

Cues for Throwing Up

By Sarah Posner

…sity. But Santorum had a Catholic mentor, if not for the precise physical reaction, for the overall contempt for Kennedy and for the Establishment Clause. Kennedy’s speech is best remembered as a defense to Protestant ministers and others who fretted that a Catholic president would merely carry water for the Vatican while in the White House. Kennedy rebutted those charges by defending the separation of church and state enshrined in the Constitutio…