The Catholic Church is Failing to Meet the “Moral Imperative” of Supporting the Health Care Legislation

Posted on November 17, 2009 by Mike

I’ve had a lot of negative things to say about the Catholic Church–my latest being this.  And Emily wrote earlier today about the church’s political heavy-handedness in the health care legislation and quoted Katha Pollitt for the church’s violation of the ” spirit of the ban on electoral meddling by tax-exempt religious institutions.”  She also [...]

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Katha Pollitt on the Stupak Amendment and Catholic Church

Posted on November 16, 2009 by Emily

Last week in The Nation, Katha Pollitt (a favorite columnist of mine) hits it out of the park with her ruminations on the Stupak Amendment and the Democratic party. She describes how it feels for women to always have to ‘take one for the team,’ and have fellow Democrats brush it off, like protecting reproductive [...]

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Anti-Choice: The Catholic Church vs. Rep. Patrick Kennedy (Part 2)

Posted on November 10, 2009 by Mike

On October 28, I wrote about how the issue of abortion is pitting the Catholic Church against Rep. Patrick Kennedy. Kennedy had criticized the church’s opposition to health care reform legislation and now, over the weekend, voted against the Stupak amendment that barred the use of federal funds from paying for most abortions. After the [...]

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The Vatican Doesn’t Want “Feminist Spirit” in Its American Sisters

Posted on November 9, 2009 by Mike

I have written before about two sweeping investigations being conducted by the Vatican into the actions of American “sisters” who provide outreach programs into the community such as social work, teaching, and work in hospitals.   The goal of these investigations almost certainly is to reign in any dissent by the sisters.  This goal would meet [...]

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Anti-Choice: The Catholic Church vs. Rep. Patrick Kennedy

Posted on October 28, 2009 by Mike

The issue of abortion is pitting the Catholic Church against Rep. Patrick Kennedy. Kennedy had criticized the church’s opposition to health care reform legislation, saying: I can’t understand for the life of me how the Catholic Church could be against the biggest social justice issue of our time, where the very dignity of the human [...]

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The Vatican Moves to Reassert Its Patriarchal Control of Its American Sisters

Posted on August 11, 2009 by Mike

As an atheist, I’ve always felt that there are only two remotely plausible arguments for why it could possibly be good to have churches.  One is the social outlet that they provide and the other is the social programs that some provide.  My answer to both has always been that those benefits could be provided [...]

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