Catholic Church Shows Its Influence In Health Care Fight
Injecting itself aggressively into the health-care debate, the Roman Catholic Church in America has emerged as a major political force with the potent...
Injecting itself aggressively into the health-care debate, the Roman Catholic Church in America has emerged as a major political force with the potent...
Sophie Pollitt-Cohen | Posted 10.29.2009 | Comedy
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).
AP | By ARIEL DAVID | Posted 10.06.2009 | World
ROME (AP)-- Scientists have reproduced the Shroud of Turin -- revered as the cloth that covered Jesus in the tomb -- and say the experiment proves the...
AP | Posted 10.04.2009 | Home
WASHINGTON — An American cardinal on Sunday issued a plea for the rights of the unborn at a church service that included Vice President Joe Bide...
AP | Posted 09.26.2009 | World
PRAGUE (AP) — President Barack Obama had his fly. Now Pope Benedict XVI has his spider. A large arachnid appeared on the pope's white robes as ...
Jon O'Brien | Posted 10.21.2009 | Politics
When men and women have access to high-quality sexual and reproductive health care, our country is healthier and stronger.
Joe The Nerd Ferraro | Posted 10.16.2009 | Home
The Gospel reading at Kennedy's funeral was a sharp stick in the eye of the Congresspeople sitting in the pews.
Huffington Post | Posted 08.27.2009 | World
In predominantly Catholic Nicaragua, an all-out ban on abortion, regardless of any potential risk childbirth poses to the mother, is drawing fire from...
Carol Hoenig | Posted 08.19.2009 | Living
Pundits all praise Cronkite for his journalistic accomplishments, as though they are unattainable today. And maybe they are, thanks to the corporate-owned media.
Ed Hayes | Posted 08.16.2009 | New York
There are those who see Judge Sotomayor as an example of the American Dream, a woman who came from a working-class background into the best schools and drove herself intellectually and physically.
AP | Posted 08.01.2009 | World
VATICAN CITY — The Vatican has announced the retirement of a Brazilian archbishop who caused a major stir when he declared that those involved i...
Michael B. Laskoff | Posted 07.24.2009 | World
The political evolution of Martin Luther is relevant to what's going on in Iran. Like Luther, Mousavi has become much reform-minded so as to distinguish himself from the incumbent administration.
AP | MONIKA SCISLOWSKA and NICOLE WINFIELD | Posted 07.13.2009 | World
WARSAW, Poland — To him, she was "My Dear Dusia" and he signed his letters "Br" _ short for brother. She was one of a handful of people by his ...
Jim Lichtman | Posted 07.09.2009 | Politics
Is Obama's openly engaging, pragmatic style working to close the "God gap" in American politics?
Charles Karel Bouley | Posted 06.06.2009 | Politics
Time to evolve past Joe the Plumber, past Rush Limbaugh, past the politics and ideology that verge on those that launched the Spanish Inquisition.
Kathleen McGowan | Posted 06.05.2009 | Entertainment
There is nothing humorous about violence in the name of religion, whether it is threatened or actualized. Neither is there anything upbeat about religious intolerance -- on either side of the question.
Charles Karel Bouley | Posted 06.01.2009 | Politics
It's time America wake up to the fact that Christians in this country have become just as radicalized (albeit in other ways) as those who pervert Islam (or insert religion here) elsewhere.
Jim Wallis | Posted 04.12.2009 | Politics
"Without justice, what are kingdoms but bands of robbers?" - St Augustine. I was surprised when Senator Bob Casey (D-PA) opened up his remarks before ...
Jim Wallis | Posted 04.05.2009 | Politics
While I support the president's budget, it does not bring Easter morning to the country.
Cristina Page | Posted 04.02.2009 | Politics
The Catholic Church may refer to pro-choice politicians as extremists but the majority of Catholic congregants agree with pro-choice politicians like Sebelius on reproductive issues.
Adia Colar | Posted 04.02.2009 | Living
Even if I never lose another pound, it's imperative for my own sanity that I love my body as it is. Since I'm going to spend my whole life with this body, I might as well love it.
Christine Whelan | Posted 03.13.2009 | Style
Last summer Maureen Dowd wrote a column entitled "An Ideal Husband" featuring love advice from Fr. Pat Connor, a 79-year-old Catholic priest based in Bordentown, NJ.
Jerusalem Post | HAVIV RETTIG GUR | Posted 03.12.2009 | World
The furor between world Jewry and the Catholic Church appears to be on the mend since the church moved to distance itself from an ultra-conservative b...
Rabbi Irwin Kula | Posted 03.05.2009 | Living
How is it that the view of some cranky powerless bishop evokes calls of a crisis in Catholic -Jewish relations, despite the revolutionary changes in Church teachings regarding Jews since Vatican II?
Harun Yahya | Posted 02.03.2009 | Living
Islam is the religion of peace, love and tolerance. However, nowadays certain circles are trying to give Islamic morality the wrong image. The religio...
Wall Street Journal | Peter Wallsten | Posted 11.10.2009 | Politics