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Father Pfleger's Raging Sexism No Problem for Cardinal George

Angela Bonavoglia | Posted 06.01.2008 | Politics

Read More: Abortion, Women's Ordination, Trinity United Church of Christ, Women Priests, Hillary Clinton, Fr. Michael Pfleger, US Conference of Catholic Bishops, Cardinal Francis George, Catholic, Politics News

George never said one word about the misogyny that came through in Pfleger's cartoon-like caricature of a brilliant woman respected worldwide who has fought a long, hard battle.

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Conservative Catholics Have Always Been in Play

Chris Korzen | Posted 05.29.2008 | Politics

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Republicans and Democrats alike take note: Catholics - conservative or otherwise - have always been in play.

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Nun-Cents: or, What Would Debbie Do?

Tom Gregory | Posted 04.15.2008 | Entertainment

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Godly songs don't guarantee a heavenly end for the canaries that sing them.

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Just Forty Years Ago

Frank Mankiewicz | Posted 04.04.2008 | Politics

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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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China Curtails Catholic Easter Service

M.S. Bellows, Jr. | Posted 03.23.2008 | Home

Read More: Easter, John McCain, Tibet, Olympic Torch, Hillary Clinton, President Bush, China, Christian, Chinese, Barack Obama, Olympics, Catholic, Communist, Buddhist, Home News

Those of other faiths are facing the same kind of government "editing" that Tibetan Buddhists do -- including Tibetan Catholics who were ordered not to celebrate Easter yesterday.

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Catholic-Bashing

John Leo | Posted 03.22.2008 | Politics

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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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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

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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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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McCain Attacked Bush in 2000 Over Anti-Catholic Endorsement

Chris Korzen | Posted 03.05.2008 | Politics

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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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Catholics are Hillary Clinton's Last Hope in Ohio and Texas

Blake Fleetwood | Posted 03.03.2008 | Politics

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We can be sure that in the coming general election the Republicans will once again trot out Rovian anti-abortion, anti-gay issues to whip Catholics into line.

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Ask Benedict: Is Union Busting Catholic?

Angela Bonavoglia | Posted 02.25.2008 | Politics

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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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John O'Donohue (1954-2008): Our New Friend on the Other Side

Jesse Kornbluth | Posted 01.09.2008 | Living

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John O'Donohue was a philosopher who had forged a way of looking at the world that was painfully aware of human frailty but insistent on the triumphal power of divine love.

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How To Tie a Necktie

Steven Denlinger | Posted 01.04.2008 | Living

Coming from a broken home in the 1940s was quite different than it is today, and my father must have felt the pain acutely.

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Of Angels and Vampires

Steven Denlinger | Posted 12.21.2007 | Living

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Sometimes the stranger who looks like an angel can turn out to be a vampire.

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MITT IS PROUD! TO! BE! A! (mumble)... mrmn

Barry Yourgrau | Posted 12.06.2007 | Politics

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Mitt's speech on his Mormonism today was meant to echo Kennedy's on Catholicism--was it? In his address--to a groomed audience--Mitt used the term MORMON, how many times? Once.

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Children of Fundamentalism: Why I Hate Caring Communities!

Steven Denlinger | Posted 11.09.2007 | Living

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The mind needs freedom to question, which is impossible if constrained by the black and white mindset of fundamentalism. In any religion, excessive control clamps down the pipeline of creativity that feeds the soul.

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Friday Democratic Talking Points [Vol. 5]

Chris Weigant | Posted 10.12.2007 | Politics

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Welcome back to the weekly talking points for Democrats appearing on television this weekend. Before I begin, I'd like to wish Ted Kennedy a fast and...

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