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Calling All "Fake" Catholics

Bryan Cones | Posted 12.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: Catholics, Abortion, Religion, Howard Dean, Bryan Cones, Catholic Crisis Magazine, New York Times, Pro-Life, Pro-Choice, Health Care, Catholicism, Hudson Deal, Politics News

Deal Hudson appoints himself the arbiter of what is Catholic, and if you support health care reform that in any way might lead to an abortion paid for with public funds, you are not one.

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Thomas Merton and the Catholic Church Ban on Marriage

Mark Shaw | Posted 12.08.2009 | Books

Read More: Religion, Catholic Church, Conjectures of a Guilty Pleasure, Alberto Cutie, Chastity, Books, Thomas Merton, Beneath the Mask of Holiness, Monastery, Catholicism, Priests, Books News

Merton faced the same sticky issue in the 1960s that is debated yet today: should Catholic priests be able to be unchaste and marry?

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Strong Clerical Support for a Woman's Right to Choose Does Exist

Rev. Tom Davis | Posted 12.07.2009 | Politics

Read More: Catholic Church, Abortion, Catholicism, Abortion Rights, Stupak Amendment, Health Care Reform, Birth Control, Catholic Bishops, Clergy Consultation Service on Abortion, Planned Parenthood, Health Care, Politics News

Anti-abortion groups are working to torpedo all health reform if they cannot impose their religious strictures on those who follow other religious teachings. Do the moral views of other religions not matter?

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The Barrio: Home To Immigrants, Mother Cabrini And My Inner Child

Wayne Trujillo | Posted 11.23.2009 | Denver

Read More: Urban Renewal, Hispanics, Latinos, Mother Cabrini, Immigrants, Denver, Highlands, Catholicism, Italians, Denver News

I happened upon this barrio, East Highlands, as a college student. Paradoxically, 20 years later, my education and professional experience allowed me to move into the neighborhood.

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The Health Care-Abortion Issue: An Open Letter To The Catholic Bishops

Valerie Tarico | Posted 11.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Abortion, Stupak, Reproductive Rights, Birth, Pro Choice, Catholicism, Children, Pregnancy, Catholic Bishops, Pro-Life, Babies, Catholics, Religion, Morality, Health Care, Pro-Choice, Spirituality, Politics News

Dear Bishops: In our struggle to get health care for all, you saw an opportunity to make sure that American women can't afford abortions, a way to be the deciders for all of us.

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Mary Karr Traded Alcohol For Jesus: 'Talking About This Is Like Doing Card Tricks On The Radio'

Jesse Kornbluth | Posted 11.14.2009 | Books

Read More: Memoir, Mary Karr, Catholicism, Drinking, Cherry, Lit, Authors, The Liar's Club, Mary Karr Lit, New Mary Karr, Author Interview, Mary Karr Interview, Tobias Wolff, Books News

For a writer of memoirs, Mary Karr has had a charmed life. That is, a lot has happened, almost all of it colorful, much of it painful.

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Catholic Church Threatens To Stop Feeding Homeless Over Gay Marriage

Allison Kilkenny | Posted 11.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: Catholic Church, Catholic, Gay, Catholicism, Gay Issues, Gay Marriage, Politics News

The child molestations, and filing sticky-fingered priests from diocese to diocese, is all part of God's grand plan, but showing the slightest bit of consideration for gay couples is just too much.

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Invention Washes Away Sins -- Without Flu Fears

msn.com | Posted 11.11.2009 | Living

Read More: Catholic Church, Religion, H1N1 Virus, Catholicism, Health, Invention, Swine Flu, Tradition, Holy Water, Flu, Catholic, Inventor, H1n1, Wellness, Holy Water Dispenser, Living News

An Italian inventor has combined faith and ingenuity to come up with a way to keep church traditions alive without the fear of contracting swine flu -...

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Mary Karr Interview: "Lit" Part II

Huffington Post | Steve Ross | Posted 11.11.2009 | Books

Read More: Writing Memoir, New Books, Mary Karr Lit, Bestsellers, Catholicism, Cherry, Lit, Writers, Melville, Interview, Writing, Authors, The Liar's Club, Mary Karr Memoir, Author Interviews, Books, Mary Karr, Mary Karr Interview, Memoir, Books News

The following is a continuation of a Huffington Post interview with author Mary Karr on her new memoir, "Lit." You can read the first part here. Hu...

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Crucifix Banned From Italy's Schools By New EU Court Ruling

AP | ALESSANDRA RIZZO | Posted 11.03.2009 | World

Read More: Public Schools, Islam, Crucifixes Banned, Atheism, EU Courts, Catholicism, Italy Schools, Immigration, Italy, Eu, Catholics, Religion, Education, Italian Schools, Courts, Vatican, Pope, Separation of Church and State, Faith, World News

ROME — The Vatican on Tuesday denounced a ruling by the European court of human rights that said the display of crucifixes in Italian public sch...

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Italy: Crucifixes Banned In Schools, Rules European Court Of Human Rights

BBC NEWS | Posted 11.03.2009 | World

Read More: Crucifixes, European Court of Human Rights, Catholicism, European Union, Christianity, Italy, Eu, World News

The European Court of Human Rights has ruled against the use of crucifixes in classrooms in Italy....

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The "Generosity" of Pope Benedict XVI

Ed Gurowitz, Ph.D. | Posted 10.26.2009 | Living

Read More: Catholic Church, Katherine Jefferts Schori, Roman Catholic Church, Catholicism, Women Priests, Same Sex Marriage, Dr. Rowan Williams, Episcopal Church, Married Clergy, Gay Bishops, Anglican Communion, Pope Benedict XVI, Same-Sex Marriage, Archbishop of Canterbury, Living News

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.

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Kenya: Anglicans Reject Pope's Offer To Join Catholic Church

BBC NEWS | Posted 10.23.2009 | World

Read More: Catholic Church, Kenya, Anglican, Catholicism, Anglican Church, Catholic Bishops, Pope Benedict, Anglican Communion, Pope, Pope Benedict XVI, World News

The head of Kenya's Anglican Church, Archbishop Eliud Wabukala, has rejected the Pope's offer to allow disaffected Anglicans to join the Catholic Chur...

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Protein Wisdom and the Radness of Crowds

Barrett Brown | Posted 10.06.2009 | Media

Read More: Rick Santorum, Blogosphere, Obama, Conservatism, Catholicism, Palin, Protein Wisdom, Media News

How will Americans look as the globalization of the internet brings a billion new foreigners in close contact with those of us who express our political views online, no matter the medium?

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6 Supreme Court Justices Attend Catholic Service Red Mass; Cardinal Pleads For Rights Of Unborn

AP | Posted 10.04.2009 | Home

Read More: Michael Steele, Red Mass, Supreme Court, Scalia, Justice, Ray Lahood, Roberts, Kennedy, Alito, Antonin Scalia, St. Matthew Cathedral, Pro-Life, Joe Biden, John Roberts, Breyer, Biden, Cardinal DiNardo, Catholicism, Stephen Breyer, Abortion, John Carroll Society, Anti-Abortion, Sonia Sotomayor, Pro-Choice, Sotomayor, Samuel Alito, Ken Salazar, Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle, Anthony Kennedy, D.C., Catholic, Home News

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...

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Spider On Pope (PICTURE, VIDEO): Spider Crawls On Pope Benedict's Face During Speech In Prague

AP | Posted 11.26.2009 | World

Read More: Photo, Spider, Catholicism, Prague Visit, Travel, Catholic, Prague, Pope, Pictures, Pope Benedict XVI, Czech Republic, Slideshow, World News

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 ...

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America's Second and Third Female Catholic Priests Ordained

Claire Walter | Posted 11.21.2009 | Denver

Read More: Catholic Church, Roman-Catholic-Womenpriests, Roman Catholic Church, Ecumenical Catholic Communion, Marriage, Religion, Catholicism, Teri Harroun, Sheila Dierks, Denver, Colorado, Denver News

Still a small offshoot of the Catholic Church, the Ecumenical Catholic Communion estimates that it has about 2,500 members nationwide, one-fifth or more in Colorado -- and it ordains women.

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There's Something About Maria...

David Paul Appell | Posted 10.16.2009 | Living

Read More: Florida, Tom Monaghan, Ave Maria, Roman Catholic Church, Freedom of Religion, Roman Catholicism, Catholicism, Living News

Ave Maria, the two-year-old "Roman Catholic town" whose construction was spearheaded by Domino's Pizza magnate Tom Monaghan, hasn't been spared by the economic slump.

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Redemption Song: Ted Kennedy Through Allen Ginsberg's Eyes

Richard (RJ) Eskow | Posted 09.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Bodhisattva, Buddhism, Redemption, Allen Ginsberg, Catholicism, Ted Kennedy, Death, Politics News

Ted Kennedy was a Catholic, not a Buddhist, but his life reads like a Bodhisattvic exercise.

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Justice Sotomayor, Justice Scalia and Our Six Catholic Justices

Geoffrey R. Stone | Posted 09.28.2009 | Home

Read More: Supreme Court, Roe vs Wade, Catholicism, William Rehnquist, Sonia Sotomayor, Antonin Scalia, Home News

Does the religion of the justices in any way matter to the business of the Supreme Court? During Sotomayor's confirmation hearings, her faith was largely backgrounded, as if being Latina matters but being Catholic doesn't.

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US Jews protest Catholic document on salvation

AP | RACHEL ZOLL | Posted 09.21.2009 | Home

Read More: Religion, Jews, U.S. Bishops, Covenant and Mission, Orthodox Judaism, Catholicism, Catholics, Statement on Salvation, American Jewish Committee, Roman Catholic, U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, Anti-Defamation League, Judaism, Pope, Home News

NEW YORK — Major Jewish groups and rabbis from the three largest branches of American Judaism said Thursday that their relationship with Roman C...

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RIP Robert Novak

Ron Mwangaguhunga | Posted 09.18.2009 | Media

Read More: Robert Novak, Catholic Church, Town Hall Debate, Jack Kemp, Catholicism, Capital Gains Taxes, George W. Bush, Born-Again-Christians, Republican-Values, Republican Party, Town Hall Meetings, Media News

Novak, aware of that natural weakness in his personality, never tired of seeking a more harmonious sense of being. That, I think, is what made Novak ultimately a good man.

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Pope: My 'Guardian Angel' Let Me Down

AP | Posted 08.29.2009 | World

LES COMBES, Italy — Pope Benedict XVI said Wednesday that his guardian angel was clearly acting "on superior orders" when he let the pontiff fal...

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Nicaragua Abortion Ban Forces Rape, Incest Victims To Give Birth

Huffington Post | Posted 08.27.2009 | World

Read More: Catholic Church, Abortion, Nicaragua Abortion Ban, Latin America, Catholicism, Abortion Rights, Foreign Affairs, Catholic, Catholic Abortion, Nicaragua, Advocacy, World News

In predominantly Catholic Nicaragua, an all-out ban on abortion, regardless of any potential risk childbirth poses to the mother, is drawing fire from...

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U.S. Nuns Facing Sweeping Vatican Investigation

The New York Times | Posted 08.02.2009 | Politics

Read More: Second Vatican Council, Catholic Church, Religion, Apostolic Visitation, Roman Catholic Church, Catholicism, Catholic Nuns, Inquisition, Vatican, Pope, Jesuits, Pope Benedict XVI, Politics News

The Vatican is quietly conducting two sweeping investigations of American nuns, a development that has startled and dismayed nuns who fear they are th...

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