Catholic Church

40 Years Later, an "Infallible" Ban on Modern Birth Control

Robert Engelman | Posted 07.24.2008 | Living

Read More: Population, Catholic Church, Birth Control Pill, Family Planning, Reproductive Rights, Contraception, Reproductive Health, Birth Control, Fertility, Sex, Living News
Robert Engelman

The Church's policy paradoxically has made it harder for people of every faith to use safe and effective contraception, especially if they are young, unmarried, and poor.

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Pope Benedict Apologizes For Clergy Sex Abuse In Australia

AP | KRISTEN GELINEAU | Posted 07.19.2008 | Home

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SYDNEY, Australia — Pope Benedict XVI urged young people Sunday to reject what he said was the "spiritual desert" spreading throughout the world...

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A Sermon for Our Times: Bishop Gene Robinson in the Face of Fear

Rev. Debra Haffner | Posted 07.15.2008 | Living

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Rev. Debra Haffner

To appease those who oppose the ordination of gay clergy and leaders, the Archbishop fo Canterbury has excluded the openly gay Bishop Robinson of New Hampshire from attending.

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Obama's Coming Battle With Conscience

Angela Bonavoglia | Posted 07.03.2008 | Politics

Read More: Catholic Church, Foster Care, Conscience Exceptions, Faith-Based Initiatives, Homosexual Parents, Prescription Drugs, Safe Sex, Hospitals, Condoms, Aids, Barack Obama, Adoption, Politics News
Angela Bonavoglia

Faith-based institutions have done an enormous amount to improve people's lives, but determining how to support that work in a country that values the separation of church and state is no easy matter.

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Excommunicate Me, Too!

Robert S. McElvaine | Posted 06.06.2008 | Living

Read More: Pope John Paul I, Misogyny, Catholic Church, Women, Grand Theft Jesus, Jesus, Ordination of Women, Vatican, Pope Benedict XVI, Living News
Robert S. McElvaine

There they go again. The old men in Rome are continuing their historic (and hysteric) misogyny. A week ago the Vatican reaffirmed yet again its ban on the ordination of women.

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Endorse This!

Chris Case | Posted 05.23.2008 | Politics

Read More: Catholic Church, Catholic Church Great Whore, McCain Parsely, Pastor Parsely, John Hagee, Barack Obama Reverend Wright, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, John Hagee McCain, Rev. Hagee, Pastor John Hagee, Politics News
Chris Case

Here's what I don't get. Why didn't God just yell down, "Hey Jews, go back to Israel! Don't make me create some guy named Hitler to kill you and then, in a very roundabout way, make whoever is left go to Israel. Or Florida."

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St. Alf's Science Fair

Kate Clinton | Posted 05.20.2008 | Home

Read More: Catholic Church, Gay Rights, Vatican, Pope Benedict XVI, Gay Marriage, Home News
Kate Clinton

The Pope and his faithful boy pals would reason that if Alf were gay, the church would love him, but not if he married Mork.

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Benedict in America: The Man Show

Angela Bonavoglia | Posted 04.22.2008 | Living

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Angela Bonavoglia

On Benedict XVI's much-heralded first papal visit to the United States, we witnessed once again the spectacle and pageantry of the Catholic Church's unapologetically all-male hierarchy.

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Open Letter to the Pope: Revolutionize the Creed

Robert S. McElvaine | Posted 04.18.2008 | Living

Read More: Pope John Paul I, Pope Benedict XVI U.S. Visit, Catholic Church, Feminism, Women and Religion, Jesus, God, Pope Benedict XVI, Living News
Robert S. McElvaine

Dear Pope Benedict XVI: As an American Catholic, I want to take the opportunity of your visit to our country to call upon you to reverse some of the m...

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Church Having Trouble Marketing Poverty And Celibacy To Men

236.com | Posted 04.16.2008 | Politics

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St. Joseph's Seminary in Yonkers, NY is having trouble in the admissions department. Fifty years ago, several hundred men at a time studied for the p...

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I am a Papal Party Pooper

Hilary Rosen | Posted 04.16.2008 | Politics

Read More: George Bush, Homosexuality, Gay, Hate Crimes, Catholic Church, San Francisco, Desmond Tutu, Pope, Catholicism, Lawrence King, Pope Benedict, Pope Benedict Gay Rights, Pope Benedict XVI, Gay Rights, International Gay and Lesbian Human Right Commission, Catholic Church Gay Rights, Pope Visit, Gay Marriage, Politics News
Hilary Rosen

Washington is agog with celebrations of the Holy Father, so I hate to be a pooper at the papal party but...it is worth pointing out a visit by another holy man to the U.S. last week.

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Pope Should Start "Spiritual Renewal" with Bisexual God

Robert S. McElvaine | Posted 04.15.2008 | Living

Read More: Pope John Paul I, Catholic Church, Pope Benedict XVI U.S. Visit, Jesus, God, Feminism, Pope Benedict XVI, Women and Religion, Living News
Robert S. McElvaine

The Pope must take action to revive a Church in desperate need of revolutionary reform in the area of its largest failings: policies concerning women and sex.

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Women and the Church -- Catholicism's Original Sin

Angela Bonavoglia | Posted 04.14.2008 | Politics

Read More: Pope Visiting, Catholic Women, Catholicism, Children Sexual Abuse, Pope Visits, Sexual Abuse, Catholic Church Sexual Abuse, Pope Benedict XVI, Catholic Church, Religion, Catholic Church Contraception, Women in Catholicism, God, Mary Magdalene, Natural Law, Contraception, Religion and Politics, Pope Visit, Women in the Catcholic Church, Politics News
Angela Bonavoglia

In the face of blatant discrimination against women, to which Pope Benedict has mightily contributed, what exactly is the basis for the Church hierarchy's moral authority?

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Vatican: Pope Will Speak on Abuse Crisis

AP | VICTOR L. SIMPSON | Posted 04.08.2008 | Home

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VATICAN CITY — Pope Benedict XVI recognizes the damage and pain caused by the clergy sex abuse crisis and will seek to heal wounds during his U....

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Just Forty Years Ago

Frank Mankiewicz | Posted 04.04.2008 | Politics

Read More: Catholic Church, Mlk Jr Assasination, Kennedy Catholic, Martin Luther King, Walter Fauntroy, Martin Luther King Jr., MLK Assasination, Catholic, Mlk, Bobby Kennedy, Martin Luther King Assassination, Robert Kennedy, Politics News
Frank Mankiewicz

I was Robert Kennedy's press secretary, and I had received maybe 10 calls from various media, reporting accusations from angry Catholic phone callers complaining the senator had "taken communion" in a Protestant church.

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Catholic-Bashing

John Leo | Posted 03.22.2008 | Politics

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John Leo

The establishment in this country needs to do a bit more thinking about civility and transgression. It is not civil or honest to attack a religion by trying to degrade its symbols.

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The Most Dramatically Tragic Week

David McWilliams | Posted 03.20.2008 | Business

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David McWilliams

Bernanke -- like a good priest -- is responding to acts of contrition with the monetary equivalent of three "Hail Mary's and an Our Father." He is granting absolution all over the place.

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America's Twisted Marriage of Religion and Politics

Paul Jenkins | Posted 03.19.2008 | Politics

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Paul Jenkins

In a presidential campaign infused like never before with the candidates' efforts to sell their religious beliefs as best-fitting an illusory mainstream, Obama hasn't quite pulled it off.

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Different Standards for Black and White Preachers

Cenk Uygur | Posted 03.19.2008 | Politics

Read More: Catholic Church, White Preachers, John Hagee, Jerry Falwell, Barack Obama, Rod Parsley, Mitt Romney, Black Preachers, Jeremiah Wright, Rudy Giuliani, John McCain, 2008 Election, Obama Race Speech, Obama's Race Speech, Barack Obama Race Speech, 2008 Election and Religion, Media Coverage of Religion, Politics News
Cenk Uygur

If it's not racism that's causing the disparity in media treatment of these preachers, then what is it?

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St. Louis Archbishop Excommunicates Catholic Women Priests

Angela Bonavoglia | Posted 03.18.2008 | Living

Read More: Catholic Church, Religion, Female Priest, Excommunicated Priests, Catholic, Excommunication, St. Louis Priests Excommunicated, Priest, Woman Priest, Living News
Angela Bonavoglia

A St. Louis Archbishop issued an ominous written excommunication against two St. Louis women who dared to join the arbitrarily all male, hopelessly depleting ranks of the Roman Catholic priesthood.

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Lord Hear Our Prayer

Beth Broderick | Posted 03.17.2008 | Living

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Beth Broderick

The Catholic Church and I are wide apart on many of the "issues" of today, but on Sunday morning it is my family, my heart, my solace...it is where I go to see the face of God.

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The Campaign in Spain Could (Mainly) Be A Gain

David Paul Appell | Posted 03.07.2008 | Politics

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David Paul Appell

Despite all its astonishing evolution, Spain remains a country with plenty of conservatives.

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McCain Attacked Bush in 2000 Over Anti-Catholic Endorsement

Chris Korzen | Posted 03.05.2008 | Politics

Read More: Catholic Church, Religion, John McCain, John Hagee, Hagee Catholics Great Satan, Catholic Voter Alert, Religion and Politics, Hagee Endorsement, Catholic, John McCain Hagee, McCain Hagee, McCain Catholics Hagee, Hagee, 2008 Election, Politics News
Chris Korzen

Back in 2000, McCain earned headlines by calling the religious right "agents of intolerance." But now he's "honored" to receive the endorsement of culture warriors like Pastor Hagee.

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Stupid and Sinful: How America Can Be Number One Again

Jacqueline Leo | Posted 02.29.2008 | Politics

Read More: Catholic Church, Sin, Ted, Sinning, Indulgences, Satire, Jay Walker, TED Conference, TED 2008, ted2008, Politics News
Jacqueline Leo

My program, GIST (Government Indulgence Sinners Tax), would be sent by email to minimize cost, and sinners would have to pay by credit card, Pay Pal, or Google Checkout.

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Ask Benedict: Is Union Busting Catholic?

Angela Bonavoglia | Posted 02.25.2008 | Politics

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Angela Bonavoglia

Once again, the Catholic hierarchy, this time in the person of Scranton, PA, Bishop Joseph Martino, is a model of hypocrisy.

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