Why Trump’s Religious Liberty Order is “a Whole Lot of Nothing”
This morning’s presidential signing of an executive order “promoting free speech and religious liberty” isn’t the…
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How to Die in America: A Conversation with Ann Neumann
Nobody likes to talk about death. And when we do talk about it, we romanticize…
Read MoreTime To Call a Satan a Satan?
A pastor takes a close look at GOP policies.
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If Abortion Isn’t Health Care, What is It?
Republican Congressman Chris Smith, a conservative Catholic, introduces “No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act,” says abortion is “not health care.”
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Why Can’t We Take Death Seriously? The Obama Administration’s Latest Retreat
The truth is that the administration simply caved before the still potent specter of so-called “Death Panels”—a specter created last year by the likes of Sarah Palin, John Boehner, and other disingenuous opponents of health care reform. Let’s just say that in this new year, Team Obama is worried to death (pardon the expression) about defending its signature health care law from further assaults from the newly-emboldened Republicans.
Read MoreAmericans Are Overtreated to Death
Real hope isn’t that the therapeutic cavalry will coming riding over the hill at the last moment.
Read MoreHealth Care Acrimony Will Only Get Worse
Has the incivility and outright hostility finally wound down, or is it just getting started?
Read MoreCatholic Bishops Fan Fire of Irrelevancy
Having followed someone else’s lie about healthcare and abortion the US Bishops ought to think long and hard about the immigration fight.
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Bedside Manners: The Broken Spirituality of Contemporary US Medical Practice
Sparked by his elderly mother’s impersonal medical care, our writer laments the fact that doctors aren’t spending nearly enough time listening to and getting to know their patients and its implications for a medical culture that focuses almost exclusively on the body; ignoring soul, spirit, and specificity.
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A New Year’s Health Care Sobriety Test for Religious Progressives: It’s Not Obama
Responsible religious leaders need to stay sober and stop cheerleading for the Democrats and for the Obama White House just because they’re not total Visigoths.
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