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June 2019

June 12, 2019

A Catholic Priest Confronted a Woman over Showing Her Shoulders

Cusick's priest friend needs to get over it. He needs to understand that what women...

August 2017

August 15, 2017

Protestant Masculinity and Catholic Female Space

Because the Catholic Church only allows male priests, and because its leadership is dominated by...

May 2017

May 23, 2017

What Do Atheists Do All Day?

Many people who don't believe in God also don't give a whit about atheist figureheads....

March 2017

March 15, 2017

Rod Dreher Once Called Pedophile Priests the “Lavender Mafia”

It's safe to say that Dreher thinks he knows more about sexuality and sexual identity...

September 2015

September 26, 2015

Pope Francis Presides over a Church Still Fighting to Keep Accused Sex Abusers from Going to Trial

In the Catholic Church, holding onto church money matters more than justice for victims of...

February 2015

February 13, 2015

Pope Tries to Have It Both Ways on Family Size

Having no children is "selfish" . . . but having too many children is "irresponsible."...

February 10, 2015

“Women’s Cultures” Reminds Us that the Catholic Church Is Still Out of Touch with Women

As of late, Catholic leaders have been showing their true colors regarding their attitudes toward...

September 2014

September 21, 2014

The Catholic Church Attempts to Silence Abuse Victim

Let's talk about a Louisiana court case you probably haven't heard about. What I find...

May 2013

May 20, 2013

Bad Catholic’s Grating Paternalism

Marc is a Catholic who totally embraces the Church's ban on (artificial) contraception, so when...

May 20, 2013

Bad Logic from Bad Catholic

Marc of Bad Catholic has offered a "rebuttal" of my post of last week criticizing...

November 2012

November 17, 2012

Could Savita’s Death Have Happened in the U.S.?

I had thought until today that Savita Hallapanavar's death could not have happen in the...

November 15, 2012

How the Catholic Church Made Me a Progressive

I recently had occasion to ask myself how it was that I, having been raised...

November 14, 2012

“Pro-Lifers” Play Fast and Loose with the “Life of the Mother” Exemption

Two weeks ago Savita, a young woman in Ireland, died after her doctors refused to...

November 14, 2012

Savita Halappanavar: When “Pro-Life” Means Death

Savita Hallappanavar was pregnant, and was miscarrying. The miscarriage was taking time, and was poisoning...

November 12, 2012

The Battle over Contraception in the Pro-Life Movement

The NAE has tentatively embraced contraceptive use among unmarried evangelical young people in an effort...

November 07, 2012

Okay Then, Let’s Talk about Natural Family Planning

A sizeable number of comments on my post on losing faith in the pro-life movement...

October 2012

October 28, 2012

Purity Rings: Kacy’s Story

"I was 17, and the ring ceremony would be held at my church in a...

May 2012

May 11, 2012

More on the Catholic Bishops…and the Girl Scouts?

I've written in the last few months about both the Catholic Bishops and the Girl...

April 2012

April 24, 2012

The Catholic Church, Social Justice, and Disillusionment

When I became Catholic some years ago, one of the things I admired about the...

March 2012

March 20, 2012

Can you lose your salvation?

Several commenters on recent posts have brought this topic up, so I though I'd address...

February 2012

February 27, 2012

The Duggars, Rick Santorum, and a Religious Realignment

The Duggars have been campaigning for Rick Santorum, endorsing him wholeheartedly. The evangelicals of the...

February 23, 2012

Searching for the Baby in the Bathwater

This is a slightly edited repost of a post I wrote when I first started...

February 14, 2012

The End Times, Part II: Social Justice, Dominionism, and the Culture Wars

Whether Christians are Postmillennialist, Amillennialist, or Premillennialist has a dramatic affect on how they view...

February 13, 2012

The End Times Part I: The Millennium, Tribulation, and Rapture

I still remember the kitchen table debates, with charts spread out, Bibles open, and concordances...

February 10, 2012

“Religious freedom” is not a get out of jail free card

There's something that's been bothering me for a while now, especially with the Hosanna-Tabor Supreme...

February 10, 2012

The War on Contraception

I know what my life would be like without contraception. If my fertility matched that...

November 2011

November 25, 2011

Religion: Something you believe or something you practice?

Is religion something you believe, or something you do? Is religion about what you think...

November 20, 2011

Catholicism and My Desire for Beauty

I wrote several days ago about how I was attracted to Catholicism because it offered...

November 18, 2011

Catholicism and My Search for Infallibility

Some readers have asked that I write more about my experiences with Catholicism, what drew...

July 2011

July 07, 2011

Searching for the Baby in the Bathwater

Everyone who leaves the Quiverfull movement, Christian Patriarchy, or fundamentalism in general has a long...