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  • Opinion:Pro-Contraception Catholics Lobby for Laws to Reduce Abortions

    By Jon O'Brien September 08, 2009

    "We are representative of Catholics across the nation who support policies that enable women to make decisions about whether to become pregnant, or whether to continue a pregnancy . As Catholics, we also strive to support parents who find themselves facing hard times, giving them access to the...

  • Opinion:Obama's Dilemma - Support Catholics or Abortion Groups?

    By Thomas Peters July 01, 2009

    Dan Gilgoff, with his dependable, informative coverage of things religious/political, notes that as the White House prepares to debut its abortion plan, "packing" is becoming a "major issue": As the White House readies its plan for finding "common ground" on reproductive health issues and...

  • Opinion:Rep. Tim Ryan Trying to Split Pro-Life Movement

    By Thomas Peters August 03, 2009

    Pro- abortion forces aren't stupid, they're calculating. I've already discussed the DeLauro-Ryan bill , and why I think it needs to be urgently defeated. It is attempting to split the pro-life movement by claiming that those who do not support contraception are not truly pro-life. The...

  • Opinion:Poll Shows Catholics Support Abortion Funding in Health Care

    By Jon O'Brien October 01, 2009

    According to a new poll of Catholic voters carried out by Belden Russonello and Stewart for Catholics for Choice, Catholics support both a public option in healthcare reform and a plan that would include funding for abortion . The results show that the views of Catholics have been seriously...

  • Opinion:Vatican Newspaper's Michael Jackson Tribute "Embarassing"

    By Thomas Peters June 29, 2009

    What the heck is going on with L'Osservatore Romano these days? Who is commissioning these embarrassing articles, and who is allowing them to go to print?! Zenit reports on the latest debacle : Michael Jackson will never die "in the imagination of [his] fans," the Vatican's semi-official...

  • Opinion:Why Are Catholics Rushing Anti-Life Health Reform?

    By Thomas Peters July 30, 2009

    Seeking healthcare for the needy is one thing,but supporting the current draft of health care "reform" is entirely different, and I believe actually antithetical to the first idea. Now when I see this picture with (at least one) Catholic bishop in front of the USCCB offices in DC (I've...

  • News:Eunice Kennedy Shriver Remembered as Pro-Life Advocate

    By Baptist Press August 12, 2009

    NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Eunice Kennedy Shriver was a lifelong Democrat and member of a political family that largely embraced abortion rights, but on that controversial issue, she was pro-life . Shriver died Aug. 11 at the age of 88 and is perhaps best remembered as the founder of the Special...

  • Opinion:Lost Symbol Proves Dan Brown Hates Catholics, Loves Masons

    By Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights September 16, 2009

    Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on Dan Brown’s The Lost Symbol and his apparent fondness of Freemasons: Dan Brown may loathe Catholics, but he just adores the Masons. “Brown goes out of his way in ‘ The Lost Symbol ’ to present the lodge as essentially benign and...

  • Opinion:Catholic Bishops Shouldn't Interfere on Women's Health Rights

    By Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice November 11, 2009

    Statement of Reverend Dr. Carlton W. Veazey, President and CEO of the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice : The now infamous Stupak-Pitt Amendment to the House health care bill won't only trample women ’s access to abortion , as devastating as that is. It will also trample their...

  • Opinion:"Manhattan Declaration" Aims to Use Gov't to Impose Religion

    By Americans United November 22, 2009

    Americans United for Separation of Church and State today expressed grave concern about a renewed push by a coalition of conservative church groups to impose religious teachings on all Americans through government action. At a press conference, Religious Right leaders and Roman Catholic...

  • Video:Video Attempts to Explain that Atheism is NOT a Religion

    By John W. Loftus November 29, 2009

    Ed. Note: John W. Loftus says nothing bothers atheists more than when people call atheism a " religion ," or when they say you need "faith" to be an atheist. They will tell you that atheism is actually "the absence of faith." This video offers a more detailed explanation of the controversy:

  • News:Poll Says African-Americans Respond Strongly to Church Outreach

    By LifeWay Christian Resources June 09, 2009

    NASHVILLE, Tenn., – African-Americans are far more open than other ethnic groups to receiving information about local congregations. That’s one key insight drawn from a survey conducted by LifeWay Research on behalf of the North American Mission Board (NAMB) as NAMB prepares to...

  • Opinion:Unborn Babies Can Form Memories by 30 Weeks

    By Thomas Peters July 15, 2009

    And, as NewsBusters reports , ABC's Good Morning America is careful to keep these scientific results separate from the fact that, in this country, it is legal to kill a 30-week-old human being that can, among many other human activities, form memories : A new study found that unborn...

  • Opinion:Liberal Catholic-People Who Don't Support Obama are Racist

    By Thomas Peters September 15, 2009

    I've discovered the application of Godwin's law which is most applicable to pro-Obama Catholics. It goes like this: "As it becomes more difficult to defend Obama, the probability of a charge of racism approaches." In all seriousness, Michael Sean Winters (at left) - a liberal...

  • Opinion:Catholic League Asks - Why Does Obama Like Kevin Jennings?

    By Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights October 23, 2009

    Catholic League president Bill Donohue on the selection of Kevin Jennings as Director of the Office of Safe and Drug Free Schools: On September 23, I wrote a news release on the curious moral credentials of Kevin Jennings to be President Obama’s Safe Schools Czar: a former drug user and...

  • Opinion:Pro-Lifers--Baltimore City Council Targets Pregnancy Centers

    By Baptist Press November 05, 2009

    BALTIMORE, MD -- Most of the members of the Baltimore (Md.) City Council are promoting a measure that would require pregnancy help centers to post a sign saying they do not provide abortions or contraceptives. Pro-lifers, including Baltimore's Roman Catholic archbishop, say the bill (ordinance...

  • Video:Automatic Holy Water Dispenser Combats Swine Flu

    By Thomas Peters November 15, 2009

    I think this is completely overblown: Really?? Holy water fonts are high transmission zones?!

  • Opinion:No Link Between Homosexuality and Priest Sex Abuse, Study Says

    By Dignity USA November 18, 2009

    During their annual meeting this week in Baltimore, the US Catholic Bishops reviewed a preliminary version of a study they commissioned on the reasons for clergy sexual abuse . The study by John Jay College of Criminal Justice researchers found that being gay had no correlation to the sex abuse...

  • Opinion:Atheism Rare Among Prison Population

    By John W. Loftus November 22, 2009

    I saw two articles on the relative proportion of atheists in prisons versus religious groups, and I thought it worth sharing. First, a compilation of present-day statistics: atheists, being a moderate proportion of the USA population (about 8-16%) are disproportionately less in the...

  • Opinion:"Self-Serving" Patrick Kennedy's Communion Ban 3 Years Old

    By Jill Stanek November 23, 2009

    Read backstory here . It turns out the Providence Journal story yesterday reporting that rebel Catholic pro-abort Rep. Patrick Kennedy had been barred by his bishop, Thomas Tobin, from receiving communion missed a key point: This happened back in 2007, and Kennedy is furthermore now...

  • Opinion:Everybody's Health Care Threatened if Catholic Bishops Win

    By Jon O'Brien December 02, 2009

    WASHINGTON – If the Catholic bishops have their way, many medical treatments and preventative measures we take for granted may be under threat. The pressure that the US bishops have brought to bear on the debate over healthcare reform has been widely reported. An ad in this morning’s...

  • Opinion:Religious Groups' Support of Abortion in Health Care "Tragic"

    By Baptist Press December 08, 2009

    WASHINGTON -- While evangelical and Catholic leaders have been working tirelessly in recent weeks to make sure any health care bill does not include federal funding of abortions, leaders of the nation's mainline denominations have been doing just the opposite, even going so far as calling...

  • Opinion:Vatican's Opposition to Punishment of Gays is Surprising

    By Dignity USA December 17, 2009

    Leaders of the US’s largest group of gay Catholics expressed surprise and satisfaction at the release of a Vatican statement that opposed the use of the death penalty and other severe violations of the human rights of gay people. They noted that the statement was particularly welcome in light...

  • Opinion:Connecticut's Attempt to Oppress the Catholic Church

    By Thomas Peters June 15, 2009

    Connecticut is becoming a flash-point for government oppression of Catholic institutional autonomy. I reported extensively on the events which have led to this situation when they began to unfold in early March of this year. Bishop Lori is not taking this most recent - and most serious -...

  • News:Lutherans and Catholics Band Together to Protest Abortion

    By Family Research Council June 15, 2009

    By Robert Morrison He’s a very serious scholar. The German professor Uwe Siemon-Netto holds advanced degrees in theology and sociology. He is director of the Center for Lutheran Theology and Public Life. So I was not prepared for his answer when I asked him how he organized a protest...

  • Opinion:Abortion Foes Should Emulate Anti-Smoking Ads (graphic photo)

    By Jill Stanek July 06, 2009

    RH Reality Check has launched a new "common ground" site, inviting pro-life and pro- abortion thinkers to explore areas where we can work together. Of course, the upper echelon of the abortion movement has no intention of finding common ground, which Obama himself recognized in his Notre...

  • Opinion:Obama and Pope to Have "Frank Talk" on Abortion

    By Thomas Peters July 09, 2009

    With less than a day or so before Obama meets with Pope Benedict, interest is definitely picking up: The White House is saying that pro- abortion President Barack Obama and Pope Benedict XVI, the head of the Catholic Church, will have a "frank' talk on abortion when they meet on Friday. Obama is...

  • Opinion:Obama & Pope Benedict - Similar Views, Different Roles

    By Jon O'Brien July 13, 2009

    Washington DC - Jon O'Brien, president of Catholics for Choice, issued the following statement about the meeting today between President Barack Obama and Pope Benedict XVI in Rome. "In the last few weeks, many have speculated about the first meeting between President Barack Obama and Pope...

  • Opinion:Is Surgeon General Pick Regina Benjamin Pro Abortion?

    By Thomas Peters July 15, 2009

    by Thomas Peters This is an important story but one I don't have a great deal of time to delve into at present. Hopefully AmP readers can work towards some conclusions in the comment box after I present what I've found out (which does not appear to be very encouraging). First what happened....

  • Opinion:Forcing Workers to Perform Abortions Part of Health Reform?

    By Heritage Foundation July 22, 2009

    The Alliance Defense Fund announced today that a lawsuit had been filed in federal court on behalf of a Catholic nurse who says her employer, Mount Sinai Hospital, forced her to assist in performing a late-term abortion in spite of her strongly held religious beliefs against abortion.