Gay Tea Party Activist On Why He Opposes Same Sex Marriage

Doug Mainwaring ,co-founder of the National Capital Tea Party Patriots,  has a interesting and very personal post up at  I'm Gay and I O...

A D.C. Jesuit Buys A Gun - Engaging America 's Repeal The 2nd Amendment Op Ed Part 1

I am going to try to engage part of America's Op Ed on repealing the Second Amendment . There is a good Huff Post article with backgro...

Arm The Women - A Black Feminist Thoughts On Gun Ownership

There was a sadly a rape on the Loyola campus this past weekend. See NOPD: Student raped inside Loyola University parking garage .   The fac...

Social Media Age Woes - Jesuit Thomas Worcester Goes Off Message in Gun Control Debate

I have taken an interest in the past few years on how hard it is  for advocacy groups for issues from a to z to stay on message in the age o...

John Allen - Italian Political Situation Shows Catholic Church Neither Left Nor Right

Johna Allen has his always interesting Friday column up at National Catholic Reporter. He says that by looking at current Italian politics a...

Did Sister Simone Campbell , Network and Nuns On The Bus Help Make Michigan Right To Work Happen ?

While most attention to Nuns on the Bus was focused on their opposition to certain Paul Ryan budget proposals , I saw in the final days they...

Teaching Abortion Is Wrong Could Violate Anti Bullying Law Says Education Minister

I am not against anti bully regulations. I just think that to avoid the trampling  civil liberties, speech , and other dangers that cause mo...

Archbishop Joseph F. Naumann of Kansas City Strong Article Against HHS Contraception Mandate

This is a pretty powerful OpEd from the Archbishop. Read it and pass it along. See HHS mandate’s coercive nature is fact, not opinion

Why Are Catholic Conservatives So Less Effective Than Catholic Liberals in The Public Square

For all the talk from the Catholic "left"  of how the "Christian Right" and by implication Catholic political conservati...

Major Problems With St Louis Free Birth Control Miracle Story

Last week the media including the the national evening news channels all breathlessly ran with a miracle story out of St louis . That is giv...

The Details of the 2012 Catholic Vote In The Polls

Get Religion takes a critical look at how the media reports the " Catholic Vote " this election. My position is if a person just...

The U.S. Supreme Court Goes To Mass- 2012 Red Mass Photos and Text

Photos by AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana The United States Supreme Court kicked off is term today. However yesterday a good many Justices attende...

Background on New Catholic Bishops Executive Director For Social Justice Concerns - Jonathan J. Reyes

Updates at bottom- As I posted earlier I have been a tad under the weather today but a significant hire has got me up to do a post.  Jonath...

Is There An American Partisan Divide On if Our Rights Come From God ?

This is one of those just throwing it out there posts. There was a good bit of debate over the God or the lack thereof being mentioned at ou...

Will Chicago Teacher Union Fight Get Same Catholic Headlines and Angst As Wisconsin ?

In case you have been living under a rock the Chicago teachers are on strike. Depending on how long this lasts one wonders if this will  gar...

Catholic Democrat Group Response To Democratic Convention Cardinal Dolan Invite - STAY AWAY

Or perhaps he does not view all Republicans as evil and immoral nor their contributions Yeah That pretty much sums it up : From Catholic Dem...

The Trend of The Christian and Biblical Illiterate Continues In The U.S.A

Pretty bad news in my opinion. It is bad news on the cultural front in that being educated did mean at one time  you were aware of some of t...

Reason.com : Catholic Church Causes Grief For Both " right " and " left "

Reason has a good piece on this at Catholic Church: Right-Wing Pawn or Left-Wing Front Group? -Political enthusiasts are by turns infuriate...

Archdiocese of Boston leads Euthanasia Fight in Massachusetts

The pro life battles are going more and more into Euthanasia. The battleground this year , and a very serious one, is the state of  Massachu...

Color Me Skeptical That Obama Support Among Catholics Down to 27 Percent

This poll by the American Life League has got some play in Catholic social media. See Poll: Obama Losing Support Among Catholics- American L...