Santa Brings Pope New Power Chair!

Tom Gregory, 12.28.2009

Actor, radio personality, and Tony nominated producer

L'Osservatore Romano has confirmed that His Holiness did indeed receive a new PowerChair this Christmas.

Bestowing Sainthood on Pius XII Ignores a Heinous Past

Earl Ofari Hutchinson, 12.24.2009

Political Analyst and Social Issues Commentator

Even as evidence piled up that thousands of Jews were being shipped to the slaughter in Nazi concentration camps, Pius XII refused to reverse the Vatican's see-no-evil, hear-no-evil political course.

Turkey Has No Place in the European Union

Michael Huffington, 12.21.2009

Former Congressman, activist, film producer

European countries have serious and well-founded reservations about admitting Turkey into the EU. America should butt out of this issue and let the Europeans make their own decisions.

Catholic Charities Meet the DC Council

Christopher Brauchli, 12.17.2009

Columnist and lawyer

On December 15, 2009, the D.C. Council voted 11-2 in favor of a bill to legalize same-sex marriage in the District. That distresses the Pope and his employees almost as much as sexual abuse of children.

Crossroad for the Vatican

Vinnie Rotondaro, 12.16.2009

Writer living in Brooklyn

The Vatican's doctrinal crackdown on American nuns will only add fuel to a fire that now has young Catholics, like myself, fleeing the Church.

The Gay Community's Pope Problem

Wayne Besen, 12.02.2009

Founder of Truth Wins Out, a non-profit organization that debunks anti-gay lies and myths

It is time to admit that the gay community has a gigantic Pope problem. Under the leadership of Benedict XVI, the Vatican has become an implacable foe of basic rights for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people.

Pope and Kennedy

Jeff Danziger, 11.28.2009

Jeff Danziger is a political cartoonist syndicated by the NYTimes worldwide

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Vatican Confirms: Goldman "Doing God's Work"

Tom Gregory, 12.17.2009

Actor, radio personality, and Tony nominated producer

L'Osservatore Romano is reporting that Goldman Sachs is indeed Doing God's work, and His Former Holiness Joseph Ratzinger has confirmed the unsolicited hostile takeover.

Everyday Grace At Trader Joe's: Who You Really Are

Dr. Alex Benzer, 11.06.2009

Author, Tao of Dating, Tao of Persuasion, Tao of Sexual Mastery, hypnotherapist

You're born naked and you leave the same way. Can't take it with you, chief. And if the economic crisis of the past year has taught us anything, it's "easy come, easy go." You can't own stuff.

The Pope and the Anglicans

Christopher Brauchli, 10.29.2009

Columnist and lawyer

If the Pope's followers want to make a home for other people who don't much care for gays and believe that women should be treated differently from men, they may want to reach out to the Taliban.

So You're Thinking of Converting From Anglican to Catholic

Sophie Pollitt-Cohen, 10.29.2009

Author

In converting to Catholicism, you are really just switching over your "files" (ideas/customs/most profound expressions of faith) to your "Mac" (Catholic) "hard drive" (brain/immortal soul).

Sit on My Lapse

Kate Clinton, 10.28.2009

A faith-based, tax-paying, America-loving political humorist and family entertainer

Like a sandcastle basilica facing an incoming tide, the Catholic Church is facing a sea of secularism, and the Pope is using his mitered shovel to dig a futile moat.

Best Political Halloween Costumes: Put Your Costume Where Your Mouth Is

Katie Halper, 10.28.2009

Co-Founder of Laughing Liberally, a political comedy group

Wear a fancy suit with a top hat and a cane. Stuff yourself with pillow so you look as bloated as possible. Wear a dollar sign around your neck (you can make it out of tin foil.) You're... Too big to fail.

Memo to Rome: Some of Us Like the Reformation

Rev. Astrid Storm, 10.28.2009

The Rev. Astrid Storm is an Episcopal priest in the Diocese of New York

The Anglicans that the Vatican probably comes into the most (perhaps sole) contact with seem to wish they were Roman Catholic.

The "Generosity" of Pope Benedict XVI

Ed Gurowitz, Ph.D., 10.26.2009

Business consultant, executive coach

Pope Benedict XVI has opened the door of the Roman Catholic Church to those in the Anglican Communion who are disaffected over issues of ordaining gays and women and same-sex marriage.

Pope Benedict Offers Full Communion to Anglicans and Rappers

Robert Lanham, 10.22.2009

Benedict says disenfranchised rappers and Anglicans should feel at home in the Catholic Church given its unwavering stance on women and homosexuality.

Vatican Bombshell!: Goldman Sachs IS The Holy Ghost!

Tom Gregory, 08.21.2009

Actor, radio personality, and Tony nominated producer

The Holy Ghost - which shares the power of God - is invisible yet everywhere, can create something from nothing or turn everything back into nothing.

The Church and the Employee Free Choice Act

Stewart Acuff, 08.20.2009

Director of Organizing, AFL-CIO

I'm neither a Roman Catholic scholar nor a Biblical scholar, but I can read, and the Pope's language is crisp and clear: restrain the greed of the markets; protect workers; pass the EFCA.

Grading a Climate Bill, Part 1

William S. Becker, 08.19.2009

Executive Director, Presidential Climate Action Project

If Mother Nature were handing out grades, she'd have a difficult time assigning one to the 1,200-page climate dissertation known as Waxman-Markey, now being considered by the Senate.

Hear The Evil; See The Evil; Feel No Evil - Where's the Outrage Over Deadly Church Bombings?

Rabbi Abraham Cooper, 08.14.2009

Associate dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center and its Museum of Tolerance

The Internet guarantees we will all hear the Evil, see the Evil, but it cannot make us care about Evil. And as recent events in Iran proved -- Technology cannot defeat Evil -- only people can.

A Call for Reconnecting With Values

Dov Seidman, 08.13.2009

Founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of LRN

The Church's social doctrine holds that authentically human social relationships of friendship, solidarity and reciprocity can also be conducted within economic activity.