This post originally appeared on OnCommonGround, a forum dedicated to the search for common ground in the abortion conflict. Before leaving for August recess, the House Energy and Commerce Committee adopted an amendment to proposed health care reform ...
On the idea of helping young people make smart choices so that they are not engaging in casual sexual activity that can lead to unwanted pregnancies, on the importance of adoption as a option, an alternative to abortion, on caring for pregnant women ...
In seeking to make sense of Dr. George Tiller's murder, some have asked whether the current tenor of the abortion debate is at least partially to blame. In response to such criticism, opponents of legal abortion have been quick to distance themselves ...
The propensity of U.S. Catholics to mix football and theology perhaps explains why one of sports' ultimate plays is known as a "Hail Mary" pass. The quintessentially Catholic prayer is so apt a description of quarterback Roger Staubach's impossible 1 ...
The propensity of U.S. Catholics to mix metaphors of football and theology explains in part why one of the most fabled plays in sports is known as a "Hail Mary" pass. The quintessentially Catholic prayer is so apt a description of quarterback Roger ...
Catholics account for 1 in 4 voters nationwide and have sided with the popular vote winner in the last nine presidential elections. They tend to... ...
Wednesday's announcement that abortion rights supporter Rudy Giuliani will deliver the keynote address at this year's Republican National Convention should have provoked an angry backlash from the Catholic far right. But many of these activists - ...
I remember clearly the day I first learned of McCain's own horrific experience as a victim of torture. I was driving through the Pittsburgh suburbs on a hot summer afternoon in 1999 listening to a radio interview in which he recounted with detail a ...
The far right's attempt to use Catholic teaching to malign progressive candidates and drive wedges between voters is nothing new. In 2004, right wing "Catholic" groups worked hand in hand with the Republican Party on a well-funded and well-organized ...
Douglas Belkin's story in Thursday's Wall Street Journal proclaims that "Conservative Catholics May Be in Play" in November's presidential election. For a mainstream media that long ago bought into the far right's wistful notion that churchgoing ...
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