By Michael Sean Winters National Catholic Reporter Yesterday, the dam broke. In comments made to Kevin Clarke at America magazine, Bishop Stephen ...
AP | DAVID CRARY | Posted 05.11.2012
NEW YORK -- Long a lightning rod for conservative criticism, the Girl Scouts of the USA are now facing their highest-level challenge yet: An official ...
Sarah O'Leary | Posted 04.27.2012
Why doesn't my Catholic Church get its own house in order first? Get the plank/log/boulder/semi truck/elephant out of its own eye before it tries to remove a speck from another's eye?
James Zogby | Posted 04.20.2012
With each new outrageous act of control, the bishops are looking more like desperate old men, attempting to hold on to the last vestiges of their fading authority by defending their power over the institution while ignoring the gospel.
Marian Wright Edelman | Posted 04.20.2012
The impact of more cuts on children and families who now receive a nutritionally adequate diet from SNAP would be devastating. Where is the justice in a vote to protect wealthy farmers over hungry children?
AP | Posted 04.20.2012
BEIJING -- A Chinese bishop was ordained Thursday in a southwestern diocese with approval from both Beijing and Rome, a sign that the Sino-Vatican rel...
Posted 04.18.2012
From The National Catholic Reporter By Dan Morris-Young If the referendum campaign to block Washington state's recently passed law authorizing sam...
HuffingtonPost.com | Michael McAuliff | Posted 04.18.2012
WASHINGTON -- House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) chastised Catholic bishops at a Wednesday news conference on Capitol Hill, saying they needed to loo...
Pablo Eisenberg | Posted 04.17.2012
It is one thing to demand fealty to Catholic church principles from grant recipients; it is quite another to insist that these groups cannot in any way be associated with other organizations that do not adhere to the church's teachings.
Posted 04.11.2012
By Joshua J. McElwee National Catholic Reporter Several priests of the Pittsburgh diocese have met with Bishop David Zubik -- the prelate who said...
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.
AP | RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR | Posted 05.16.2012
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration signaled Friday it's willing to help insurance companies offset the cost of providing free birth control t...
Lorraine Devon Wilke | Posted 05.15.2012
Interesting, isn't it, that this Church so intent on managing the sex lives of its adherents is run by men and women who are not allowed to have any?
HuffingtonPost.com | Laura Bassett | Posted 03.16.2012
WASHINGTON -- As part of their intensely focused effort to repeal the Obama administration's new contraception coverage policy, the U.S. Conference of...
Posted 03.13.2012
By David Gibson Religion News Service Bridgeport, Conn. (RNS) The Catholic bishop leading the push against the White House's contraception mandate...
Michelle Kraus | Posted 04.16.2012
Is our American culture so immersed in the sickness of misogyny that it can't see the forest from the trees with the GOP? Men, or anyone else without ...
Reuters | Posted 05.09.2012
* Pope addresses U.S. bishops on family issues * Speaks after another US state legalised gay marriage * Says definition ...
William Grassie | Posted 05.03.2012
We live in a society and in a world that often does not allow simple moral decisions between right and wrong. Morality is always a muddle of conflicting goods.
Peter Montgomery | Posted 04.30.2012
House Republicans kept up their attacks on President Obama's supposed "hostility" to religious liberty with a Judiciary Committee hearing that lasted well into the evening on Tuesday.
Rabbi Arthur Waskow | Posted 04.28.2012
It is Roman Catholic "sharia" about contraception that the USCCB has been trying to impose on Americans of all faiths and beliefs who happen to work at a Catholic-sponsored hospital or university.
Barbara Coombs Lee | Posted 04.25.2012
As with contraception, a free society must find the middle ground. Catholic Bishops must be free to exercise their religion, yet we cannot allow them to deny that same freedom to the rest of us.
Dovid Efune | Posted 04.22.2012
As "strangers in the land of Egypt" Jews know well the pitfalls posed in opening the door of this legislation. It is thus our duty to fight for the preservation of its purist principles as we have done for so many of history's most just causes.
Michael Kieschnick | Posted 04.22.2012
In recent weeks, the nation has talked more about contraception than at any other time during my 58 years of life. Many Republican office holders and outspoken Catholic bishops call the discussion one of religious liberty. For me, it is a matter of whom I trust.
Lorraine Devon Wilke | Posted 04.17.2012
Please, my moderate, loving Christian brothers and sisters, will you take the stand to assert that true Christianity embraces ALL members and supports equality for everyone, including non-Christians, homosexuals in their quest for marriage, and women for reproductive freedom?
HuffingtonPost.com | Laura Bassett | Posted 02.16.2012
When President Barack Obama first announced the federal rule requiring most faith-based employers to pay for contraception health coverage, most Roman...
National Catholic Reporter | Michael Sean Winters | Posted 05.23.2012