Catholic Bishops Pull Funding for ACORN
Bishops accuse longtime advocacy group ACORN of political partisanship and withdraw support. Now who’s partisan?
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Palin, Again.
The thwarted VP nominee is not going quietly. Indeed, she seems to believe in her own sense of personal destiny and mission.
Read MoreBarack Hussein Obama and a Post-Religious America
The President-Elect’s names, all three of them, reveal a complexity of religious engagement that might move us beyond a tribal sense of religion.
Read MoreRabbi Lerner is Wrong on Rahm
There are plenty of reasons for concern over Obama’s appointment of Rahm Emanuel, but guilt by association is a downward spiral.
Read MoreStirring Up Trouble: Why Gay People Are Not “Over It”
The loss on Prop 8 is like a death for gay and lesbian people, who have witnessed their civil rights murdered at the polls—the grieving is just beginning.
Read MoreNext Up: A Pope of Color?
Though the majority of Catholics reside in Latin America and Africa, the majority of Cardinals (the Pope pool) are European. Still, many are looking ahead to the first Pope of color.
Read MoreFatwa Allowing Women to Hit Their Husbands is Useless
Is “an eye for an eye” the best that imams and scholars can prescribe for domestic violence in the Muslim community?
Read MoreYour Freedom of Speech Ends Where My Life Begins
The First Amendment bars Congress from making laws that abridge freedom of speech—but it does not guarantee immunity to haters. An important distinction.
Read MoreThe “Scandal” of the Catholic Vote
Many US Catholics defied bishops and voted for Obama, but this has only invigorated the Catholic Right.
Read MoreSometimes You Can’t Say a Word
For a people who bear the burden of slavery, legalized apartheid and the continued vestiges of both, for a moment the elusive goal of feeling fully part of America’s democratic project was realized.
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