Rev. Raphael Warnock Tweets ‘I am a pro-choice pastor’ and Suddenly a Public Figure’s Religion is Fair Game
As you know, the Rev. Raphael Warnock is running to represent the state of Georgia…
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New Survey: Catholic Women “Disengaged & Disengaging” — And Don’t Listen to US Bishops
Nearly five years into Pope Francis papacy, with its great expectations for a revival of…
Read MoreIs “Weak Leadership” to Blame for Catholic Trump Support?
It’s perhaps a sign of the times that two of the four articles in the…
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The Religious Right Has Come Out of the Closet
There’s a certain satisfaction for those of us who came of age at the time…
Read MoreGOP isn’t Pro-Life After All
The GOP’s morally indefensible position on maternity care shows the hollowness of the party’s claim…
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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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Christianity as American Horror Story in Joyce Carol Oates’ Newest Novel
Joyce Carol Oates’s hefty new novel, A Book of American Martyrs, reveals an America haunted by a…
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How Much More Nuanced Can Democrats Get on Abortion Rights?
As Patti Miller noted here on RD, Thomas Groome’s Times op-ed urging Democrats to soften…
Read MoreOld 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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