By Michael Sean Winters National Catholic Reporter Yesterday, the dam broke. In comments made to Kevin Clarke at America magazine, Bishop Stephen ...
Carol DeChant | Posted 05.08.2012
Does the Pope really want to force American Catholics to choose between standing with our nuns or with a male hierarchy interrogating them for nebulous infractions, with a stated agenda of keeping their findings secret?
Joseph Amodeo | Posted 04.16.2012
As Catholics speak out and call upon the Church to live out its call to be a beacon of social justice and love, those in the hierarchy will begin to see another way in which Christ has risen -- he has risen from the silence and has cried out for equality.
Fred Rotondaro | Posted 04.10.2012
The bishops would of course never tell their parishioners to vote Republican, but they left little to the imagination. Priests would preach at mass about the necessity of voting only for pro-life candidates.
Bishop Pierre Whalon | Posted 04.09.2012
The separation of church and state is certainly a major advance in human history and political theory. That said, all of us, even us bishops, have a duty and a right as citizens to engage in politics, at least by casting a vote.
Carl Siciliano | Posted 04.02.2012
Recently I published an open letter to Cardinal Dolan, the Archbishop of New York, calling his attention to the epidemic numbers of LGBT youth being rejected by their parents and forced into homelessness. Last week I received the following reply from Cardinal Dolan.
Posted 03.30.2012
Cardinal Timothy Dolan discusses the meaning of Good Friday, Easter, and Holy Week in the Catholic Church....
Carl Siciliano | Posted 05.20.2012
I am writing to you on behalf of the hundreds of thousands of LGBT youths who have been driven from their homes by parents unwilling or unable to accept their own children because they are gay.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jaweed Kaleem | Posted 02.18.2012
Archbishop Timothy Dolan, the head of the 2.6-million member Archdiocese of New York, was elevated to the prestigious College of Cardinals in an elabo...
AP | By NICOLE WINFIELD | Posted 04.18.2012
VATICAN CITY -- A scandal over leaked Vatican documents and reports of political infighting, financial mismanagement and administrative chaos in the H...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jaweed Kaleem | Posted 02.17.2012
Archbishop Timothy Dolan, the leader of New York City's 2.6 million Roman Catholics and president of the influential U.S. Conference of Catholic Bisho...
Joe Peyronnin | Posted 04.08.2012
No matter how the administration explains the decision, most Catholics see the proposal as forcing institutions run by the Catholic Church to violate the churches' own moral teachings. And, while well intentioned, this does not make sense and it is not smart politics.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jaweed Kaleem | Posted 01.06.2012
NEW YORK -- Pope Benedict XVI has announced he will name New York Archbishop Timothy Dolan to the College of Cardinals, giving one of America's most p...
Posted 01.06.2012
Holy upgrade! The vatican announced the appointment of 22 new cardinals by Pope Benedict XVI on Friday, including the appointment of Archbishop Tim...
Jon O'Brien | Posted 01.23.2012
Providing no-cost family planning is good public health policy and an important advancement under the Affordable Care Act. But the bishops want to grant a broad refusal clause that will enable them to discriminate against millions of Americans.
Joseph Amodeo | Posted 01.17.2012
When will Catholics start to occupy the United States Conference Catholic Bishops and diocesan offices across the country to demand a moral voice that focuses on Christ's message of love and justice?
AP | By RACHEL ZOLL | Posted 11.14.2011
BALTIMORE -- The president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops says the church should not be dismissed as an outmoded bureaucracy. Archbishop ...
Rev. Dr. Nancy Wilson | Posted 12.10.2011
Bishop Dolan predicts (threatens?) that if marriage equality is allowed, "a systemic national conflict between Church and State" will ensue. He wants the "formidable moral, economic, and coercive power" to enforce the Catholic definition of marriage.
Posted 11.22.2011
By David Gibson Religion News Service NEW YORK (RNS) The nation's top Catholic bishop issued a stern challenge to the Obama administration's decis...
John Mattras | Posted 09.08.2011
I approached the confessional with trepidation. I entered, sat down, dispensed with the formalities and faced the 60-something-year-old priest. "Father," I said, "I'm gay."
AP/The Huffington Post | Posted 09.07.2011
NEW YORK -- New York Archbishop Timothy Dolan says he's worried that the next step in the marriage debate will be another redefinition to allow polyg...
Posted 08.27.2011
While gay marriage supporters enjoyed an especially jubilant pride parade in New York this weekend, proposing to their partners and dancing in the str...
Clay Farris Naff | Posted 08.26.2011
But, while a new day has dawned in New York, the fight now moves from New York to other states, so it's important to consider the arguments offered against gay marriage. Let's take a look.
Michael O'Loughlin | Posted 08.21.2011
Rightly or wrongly, Dolan and O'Malley, and others in positions of authority in any denomination, most easily personify church to the faithful. Their words and actions can poison one's image of the church.
AP | MICHAEL GORMLEY | Posted 08.14.2011
ALBANY, N.Y. — After a second day of a lobbying blitz and propelled by Gov. Andrew Cuomo's personal buttonholing of GOP senators, a measure to l...
National Catholic Reporter | Michael Sean Winters | Posted 05.23.2012