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Naumann on Sebelius
Earlier this year, as the presidential campaign was heating up, Archbishop Joseph Naumann of Kansas City, Kan., asked his most famous parishioner, Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius, to refrain from taking Communion because of her support for abortion rights. Obama loves Sebelius, and was...
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A new line in the abortion wars
The always-on-top-of-things Michael Paulson up at The Boston Globe has a good story this morning that ties together all the loose ends in dissecting how the Catholic/abortion question has played itself out this election season.
The bottom line, in Paulson's own words: "The urgency of...
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COMMENTARY: A pox on both their houses
c. 2008 Religion News Service
(UNDATED) No doubt about it, abortion is the elephant in the election booth this year. Neither John McCain nor Barack Obama seems to want to address it directly, and their surrogates are playing hardball on different fields.
While the Obama camp is maki...
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VA uses `spiritual assessments’ in treating ill vets
c. 2008 Religion News Service
BALTIMORE _ ``I have dreams,'' said Vietnam veteran Raymond Ratajczak Jr., his mouth wet and tears on his face. ``Dreams of recovery.''
Ratajczak sat up in a cot at the Baltimore VA Medical Center in a room shared with three other patients. Every few minu...
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COMMENTARY: Pelosi flat out wrong on abortion
People will use practically anything for politics, but when they use their religion it's a bit breathtaking. Nancy Pelosi left a lot of Catholics gasping Sunday morning (Aug. 24), when she skewed Catholic teaching on NBC's "Meet the Press" and erroneously suggested the church did not...
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Pelosi counters Catholic prelates’ criticisms on abortion
A spokesman for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has struck back against criticism from prominent Catholic prelates who accused the California congresswoman of misrepresenting church teachings about abortion.
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Biden pick provides Catholic link, but renews abortion debate
c. 2008 Religion News Service
WASHINGTON _ While supporters say Sen. Joe Biden provides a crucial link with Catholic voters, others say the new vice presidential running mate reprises an unwelcome debate over abortion and Communion.
The senator chosen by Democratic candidate Sen....
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Democrats woo faith voters with small steps on abortion
c. 2008 Religion News Service
(UNDATED) In the history of abortion politics, it was a key event: the 1992 move by Democrats to deny Pennsylvania Gov. Robert Casey Sr., an opponent of abortion rights, a speaking spot at the party's national convention that year.
Bill Clinton, of co...
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Treating the pill as abortion, draft regulation stirs debate
The Bush Administration has ignited a furor with a proposed definition of pregnancy that has the effect of classifying some of the most widely used methods of contraception as abortion.
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Famed geneticist to leave NIH
Francis Collins, the guitar-playing geneticist who mingled a belief in Christianity with a defense of evolution, said Wednesday that he would step down as director of the National Human Genome Research Institute.
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