The Bishop Un-Bribes Patrick Kennedy
Providence's Bishop Tobin is seeking to bar communion to Patrick Kennedy because the legislator's support for abortion rights run contrary to church teachings.
Providence's Bishop Tobin is seeking to bar communion to Patrick Kennedy because the legislator's support for abortion rights run contrary to church teachings.
Wayne Besen | Posted 12.02.2009 | Politics
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.
Bennet Kelley | Posted 11.27.2009 | Politics
Providence Bishop Tobin's barring Patrick Kennedy from receiving communion is an assault on the separation of church and state now enshrined in the First Amendment and the Kennedy legacy itself.
AP | RAY HENRY | Posted 11.24.2009 | Politics
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — A Pennsylvania lawmaker defended Rep. Patrick Kennedy on Monday against a bishop who has acknowledged asking the Rhode Island...
AP | RAY HENRY | Posted 11.23.2009 | Politics
EAST PROVIDENCE, R.I. — A month of harsh words between Rep. Patrick Kennedy and a strident critic, Roman Catholic Bishop Thomas Tobin, escalated...
Posted 11.18.2009 | Comedy
At the end of his "Better Know a District" segment with Congresswoman Jackie Speier of the California 12th, the pair decided to make a YouTube video b...
Posted 10.11.2009 | Politics
The official transcript of President Obama's address at The Human Rights Campaign's 13th Annual National Dinner on Saturday, as released by the White ...
AP | GLEN JOHNSON | Posted 11.23.2009 | Politics
BOSTON — Massachusetts lawmakers fulfilled Sen. Edward M. Kennedy's dying wish Wednesday, granting the governor the power to appoint an interim ...
Huffington Post/AP | Posted 09.29.2009 | Politics
BOSTON -- President Barack Obama led the nation Saturday in mourning and remembering "the greatest legislator of our time," celebrating the indelible ...
The Huffington Post | Posted 09.26.2009 | Politics
With the passing of Sen. Ted Kennedy, the famous family lost its most prominent and powerful member as well as the last surviving brother in an enduri...
Stanton Peele | Posted 09.06.2009 | Living
Where does the President get off favoring his close friends' preferences for such allocations, and where do they get off lobbying him?
Rep. Patrick Kennedy | Posted 08.22.2009 | Politics
In a country where less than a third of people with mental illnesses get the care they need, the importance of the mental health parity law cannot be understated.
AP | ERIC TUCKER | Posted 07.13.2009 | Politics
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Rep. Patrick Kennedy, who has struggled with depression, alcoholism and addiction for much of his life, said Friday that he h...
Jacob Heilbrunn | Posted 08.01.2008 | Politics
The sentiments expressed by Germans, who worship Obama as much as they loathe George W. Bush, might not be ones that the administration is eager to hear.
Judge H. Lee Sarokin | Posted 12.02.2009 | Politics