Nearly five years into Pope Francis papacy, with its great expectations for a revival of...
The news that two major Catholic health care systems, Ascension and Providence St. Joseph Health,...
https://religiondispatches.org/will-2018-be-the-year-of-catholic-health-care-dominance/
The love between Donald Trump and white evangelical Protestants remains strong according to a new...
https://religiondispatches.org/the-surprising-catholic-roots-of-the-war-on-xmas/
Catholic universities and colleges in the United States have long occupied a distinct (and sometimes...
Its been one of the epic culture-war battles of the last decade. It spawned the...
One of the more interesting revelations to come out of the Politico interview with John...
https://religiondispatches.org/is-the-francis-era-ending-the-catholic-bishops-cozy-ties-to-the-gop/
It’s perhaps a sign of the times that two of the four articles in the...
https://religiondispatches.org/is-weak-leadership-to-blame-for-catholic-trump-support/
There’s a certain satisfaction for those of us who came of age at the time...
https://religiondispatches.org/the-religious-right-has-come-out-of-the-closet/
For the second time since her contentious hearing for an appellate court slot, the religious...
https://religiondispatches.org/its-preposterous-that-we-cant-question-nominees-on-religion/
There was a time in the Catholic Church when supporters of doctrinal orthodoxy could count...
https://religiondispatches.org/the-rise-of-the-catholic-cyber-bullies/
The phrase “cafeteria Catholic” first gained currency in the mid-1980s to describe—mostly disparagingly—progressive Catholics who...
https://religiondispatches.org/steve-bannon-and-the-conservative-cafeteria-catholics/
It’s more or less an article of faith that religious Americans, especially white Americans, have...
https://religiondispatches.org/not-all-catholics-have-abandoned-the-democrats-only-white-catholics/
Largely lost in the coverage of the Rev. William Aitcheson, the priest serving in a...
In the end, it would be a fitting sort of justice if it were the...
https://religiondispatches.org/catholic-nuns-show-the-bishops-how-its-done-on-obamacare/
An article being described as “explosive,” written by two allies of Pope Francis in a...
When President Obama proposed requiring health plans to cover common contraceptives without charge, the Catholic...
The GOP’s morally indefensible position on maternity care shows the hollowness of the party’s claim...
It’s unlikely that many of the Catholic bishops who voted last week to make permanent...
https://religiondispatches.org/gop-stealthcare-bill-reveals-catholic-bishops-priorities/
The annual National Catholic Prayer Breakfast is hardly a bipartisan or nonpolitical event. It was...
Pending dystopia, it appears, is in the eye of the beholder. Here at RD, Diane...
https://religiondispatches.org/five-signs-atwoods-handmaids-tale-dystopia-may-be-nigh/
The Republican Party has maintained a death-grip on protestations of moral authority on matters of...
For anyone whose political memory dates back more than a decade or two, the term...
https://religiondispatches.org/pro-life-has-officially-lost-its-meaning/
Robert Jones of PRRI has an insightful column in the New York Times about the...
The New York Times received numerous responses to an opinion piece it recently published—from a man—about how...
https://religiondispatches.org/the-problem-with-moral-nuance-on-abortion-for-democrats/
A more accurate analysis of the 2016 presidential election than the preliminary exit polls shows...
Amid news that the GOP is trying once again to restart negotiations over their failed...
https://religiondispatches.org/how-the-politics-of-the-1890s-explain-the-gops-health-care-woes/
Writing in the New York Times, Thomas Groome, a professor of theology at Boston College,...
https://religiondispatches.org/old-white-dudes-tell-the-democrats-to-forget-about-abortion/
It was one of the more remarkable moments in the saga of the “repeal/replace” of...
https://religiondispatches.org/how-the-catholic-church-broke-the-health-insurance-it-advocated-for/
You know the moral panic over unemployed men has reached epic proportions when it’s enough...
https://religiondispatches.org/the-irony-of-moral-panic-over-surplus-men/
It’s understandable that with people grasping for a light in the darkness in the wake...
https://religiondispatches.org/unified-catholic-opposition-to-trumps-muslim-ban-is-wishful-thinking/