Irony 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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How the Politics of the 1890s Explain the GOP’s Health Care Woes
Amid news that the GOP is trying once again to restart negotiations over their failed…
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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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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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