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Articles of Faith: Why Republicans Don’t Want to Debate Birth Control
In the midst of what has already been a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad summer, the Obama administration last week appeared to stumble into the kind of culture war skirmish that nearly shut down...
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Articles of Faith: Can Rick Perry’s Evangelical Appeal Reach Beyond Texas?
Since his entry into the GOP presidential race earlier this month, Rick Perry has rocketed to the top of national polls and attained frontrunner status. The position of the Anybody But Mitt candidate,...
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Bishops to Supercommittee: Don’t Think About Touching Programs for the Poor
Oh, those religious people–always droning on and on about the poor. It’s like they have nothing else to do. (Other than getting arrested by the hundreds at the White House for protesting a proposed...
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Articles of Faith: What Journalists Should Be Asking Politicians About Religion
A few weeks ago, I opened up my Twitter feed early in the morning and immediately wondered if I was being punk’d. Instead of the usual horse race speculation, my colleagues in the political press corps...
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Articles of Faith: The Importance of Understanding Religion in a Post-9/11 World
It’s hard to remember now, but in the days immediately following the attacks of 9/11, a spirit of religious unity reigned. Shocked political foes gathered together at the Washington National Cathedral...
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Articles of Faith: Will a Slew of Overturned State Laws Galvanize the...
Judges on the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals sounded skeptical this week as they heard arguments about why a ban on sharia law in Oklahoma courts should become part of the state’s constitution. “We...
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Articles of Faith: Is Obama Really Losing His Jewish Support?
Tell me where you’ve heard this before: Jewish voters are unhappy with Barack Obama. He’s seen as insufficiently supportive of Israel. There are questions about whether he can win enough Jewish votes...
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Articles of Faith: Is the Death Penalty in Keeping with Catholic Doctrine...
Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia addressed the morality of capital punishment earlier this week in a speech at a Catholic law school in Pittsburgh. "If I thought that Catholic doctrine held the...
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Santorum Not Familiar with Catholic Teaching About the Poor
I generally think questions sprung on candidates to name such-and-such country’s leader or to identify a text from their religious scripture are unfair gotchas that don’t tell us much of substance. But...
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The Vatican’s Radical Ideas on Financial Reform
Calling into question the entire foundation of neo-liberal economics and proposing one world financial order? You never know what those radicals over at the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace...
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Mormon Perspective and 2012
With Mitt Romney leading the GOP presidential race and traditional Evangelical influence appearing to wane, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is playing an increasingly significant role...
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Social Conservatives Splinter as Gingrich Backers Dispute Claims of Santorum...
Despite Saturday’s announcement that prominent Evangelical leaders would support Rick Santorum for President, the battle for social conservative votes is far from over. On Monday, backers of Newt...
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Birth Control Debate: Why Catholic Bishops Have Lost Their Grip on U.S....
The clash with the White House over birth control is a reminder of just how much influence the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has lost in the 10 years since the child sex abuse crisis erupted in...
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How Religious Expression Is Splitting the U.S. Electorate–Including Republicans
Americans may be more religious than their peers in other Western countries, but they have their limits when it comes to mixing religion and public life. According to a new survey conducted by Pew, a...
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The Story Behind Lawrence O’Donnell’s Apology to Mormons
MSNBC host Lawrence O’Donnell apologized Wednesday night for inaccurate comments he made a week earlier about the origins of the Mormon church. “I am truly sorry if I said something inaccurate about...
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Conservatives Say Obama to Blame for Mideast Protests, Not Anti-Islam Film
As protests set off by an American anti-Islam film continued across the Mideast on Friday, several thousand conservatives gathered for the annual Values Voter Summit in Washington, where the global...
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Where President Romney Would Go to Church
Bishop Robert Nelson of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints’ in Chevy Chase, MD, isn’t exactly sure how to handle the casserole question. You see, the Mormon church is run by volunteers,...
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At Inaugural Prayer Service, a Glimpse of the Pastor-in-Chief’s Vision
Today at the Washington National Cathedral’s Inaugural Prayer Service, United Methodist minister Adam Hamilton told President Obama that perhaps he had missed his calling. “Unlike any other President...
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Obama Offers Faith Groups New Birth Control Rule
(WASHINGTON) — The Obama administration on Friday announced a new accommodation for religious nonprofits that object to providing health insurance that covers birth control. The new regulation attempts...
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Cardinal Dolan Reacts to the Pope’s Resignation
Pope Benedict XVI stepped down today in an announcement that surprised the Catholic world. There is no modern precedent for a papal resignation–the last pope to resign was Gregory XII in 1415. Pope...
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