Pence’s Prayer Breakfast Appearance Underscores Fractured American Catholicism
The annual National Catholic Prayer Breakfast is hardly a bipartisan or nonpolitical event. It was…
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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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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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“Make The Mass Latin Again”: The Pope Francis Backlash Comes Home
There’s beauty in mythology, to be sure. But there is also grave danger in believing mythologies can save broken institutions.
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Trump Support Will Harm Catholic Church in America
White Catholics voted for Trump at 52 percent to the 45 percent they gave Hillary Clinton.
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It’s Not Me, It’s You: Catholic Values Dumping Trump
Evangelicals will seemingly overlook anything about Trump, but Catholics won’t.
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Disingenuous Pleas for “Common Ground” on Religious Liberty Aren’t Likely to Find Any
If you were to skim John Gehring’s latest piece for Commonweal, you might think he’s…
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U.S. Bishops’ Silence on Guns and Gays
The U.S. Catholic bishops met in Huntington Beach, California this week, just days after the…
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Who Defines Religious Freedom?
In the United States, who defines religious freedom? The First Amendment? The courts? The legislature? Religious…
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