What do we do if one of our religious communities is directly involved in racist, sexist, homophobic, or anti-Semitic doings?
Cristina Page | Posted 11.14.2008 | Politics
The 2008 election may mark the moment religious voters put reason above rhetoric. The birth of the Obamagelical.
Wayne Besen | Posted 11.12.2008 | Politics
In moving forward, we must build a coalition that embraces a universal set of principles. If we stupidly divide ourselves by sexual orientation or race, we can only expect a race to the bottom.
Lee Stranahan | Posted 11.09.2008 | Politics
I am in total agreement with those who want gay marriage to be legal -- they are right. But being right isn't enough.
Kelly Nuxoll | Posted 11.06.2008 | Home
The reason I voted for Obama had little to do with the candidate and everything to do with the crowd.
Chris Korzen | Posted 11.04.2008 | Politics
Catholics account for 1 in 4 voters nationwide and have sided with the popular vote winner in the last nine presidential elections.
Tom Gregory | Posted 10.17.2008 | Politics
The church poking its nose into politics has too long been too pervasive and too powerful in Bush's America.
Kari Lundgren | Posted 10.17.2008 | Home
In comparison to the plight of the unborn, what is the economy, poverty, labor rights, equal pay for equal work, or the war in Iraq? For some Catholic voters, it is crucial to choose a presidential candidate who would pick justices committed to overturning Roe v. Wade. But would McCain?
Scott Swenson | Posted 10.04.2008 | Politics
It defies all logic that these staunchly pro-life luminaries of Catholic legal scholarship would take these positions if the ludicrous charges about Obama supporting "infanticide" were in any way true.
Steven Denlinger | Posted 09.25.2008 | Politics
Ever hear the one about Hezekiah 5:9? Yeah? I did too. Except Hezekiah isn't a book in the Bible. It just sounds like one. If you use biblical language, your audience will believe it's a Bible verse. Even when it isn't.
Kari Lundgren | Posted 09.09.2008 | Home
While I prayed for an end to abortion and the conversion of souls, I also saw the depressed ex-steel town in which the university resided, and I felt a disconnect between the spiritual fervency on campus and the poverty surrounding it.
Tom Douglas | Posted 08.25.2008 | Home
Tim Kaine seemed like a no-brainer, but Obama is the Jordan on this team. He needs role players. It remains to be seen whether Biden is more like a Luc Longley or a Steve Kerr.
Chris Korzen | Posted 08.22.2008 | Politics
Wednesday's announcement that abortion rights supporter Rudy Giuliani will deliver the keynote address at this year's Republican National Convention s...
Cenk Uygur | Posted 08.07.2008 | Media
If you don't believe that they're not calling him a terrorist because he's white, let me ask you this question -- what if his name was Sheik al-Abdullah Muhammad?
Julia Gorin | Posted 07.31.2008 | Politics
Commander of the second-largest concentration camp complex of World War II -- Croatia's Jasenovac -- passed away last week and received a burial in hi...
Angela Bonavoglia | Posted 06.01.2008 | Politics
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.
Chris Korzen | Posted 05.29.2008 | Politics
Republicans and Democrats alike take note: Catholics - conservative or otherwise - have always been in play.
Tom Gregory | Posted 04.15.2008 | Entertainment
Godly songs don't guarantee a heavenly end for the canaries that sing them.
Frank Mankiewicz | Posted 04.04.2008 | Politics
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.
M.S. Bellows, Jr. | Posted 03.23.2008 | Home
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.
John Leo | Posted 03.22.2008 | Politics
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.
Angela Bonavoglia | Posted 03.18.2008 | Living
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.
Beth Broderick | Posted 03.17.2008 | Living
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.
Chris Korzen | Posted 03.05.2008 | Politics
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.
Blake Fleetwood | Posted 03.03.2008 | Politics
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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Rabbi Michael Lerner | Posted 11.20.2008 | Living