In the midst of Catholic Bishops’ hysteria over contraception and “religious freedom”, it’s worth considering the perceptions from other faith traditions. At Saira Khan’s femi – blog, Saira shifts the discussion from contraception to abortion (even more of a hot button issue…
Sexual Ethics
US Bishops’ Selective, Simplistic Uproar Over Conscience
All week, I’ve been struggling to find anything sensible to post about the extraordinary brouhaha whipped up by the Catholic bishops over contraception coverage, health care and “religious freedom.” As a non-American, and as I don’t pretend to understand the detail…
US Bishops, Religious Freedom, Health Care: Omnibus Commentary, Part 1
Robert McClory on the Embarrassment the Catholic Bishops Have Become (and How They’ve Gotten There). Robert McClory at National Catholic Reporter writing about the U.S. Catholic bishops and what an embarrassment their campaign for “religious freedom” is for many American…
US Bishops, Religious Freedom, Health Care: Omnibus Commentary, Part 2
Two Pictures, Two Thousand Words: Congressional Hearing on Religious Liberty. As Pema Levy notes at Talking Points Memo today, the picture at the head of the posting is from yesterday’s Congressional hearing about “religious liberty,” and has been circulating all…
US Bishops, Religious Freedom, Health Care: Omnibus Commentary, Part 3
This Just in: USCCB Legal Counsel Anthony Picarello Tells Media Bishops “Will Not Relent”. This just in: right-wing propagandist legal counsel to the U.S. Catholic bishops Anthony Picarello informed reporters today that the U.S. Catholic bishops “will not relent” on their…
US Bishops, Religious Freedom, Health Care: Omnibus Commentary, Part 4
Contraception Battles: More Commentary Hot off the Presses. I can’t avoid that news, because it’s everywhere these days, from an article today at Alternet by Adele Stan about how the bishops’ political powerlessness has been definitively exposed, to a similar statement…
US Bishops, Religious Freedom, Health Care: Omnibus Commentary, Part 5
Bill Moyers on Religious Freedom: Freedom of and Freedom from. As always, Bill Moyers is eminently sane in what he writes about the made-up holy war for “religious freedom” that the Republican party (and a large number of white evangelical…
Bishops’ Hypocrisy on Religious Freedom and Contraception.
A headline at the National Catholic Reporter, to an article on thecurrent contraception controversy, states unambiguously, ”Catholics unite in opposition to contraception mandate“. This is patently untrue. The bishops may have united, and may have the backing of several Catholic…
Catholics Bishops, Religious Freedom, and Contraceptive Health Coverage.
We are by now accustomed to the yawning gulf in opinion between Catholics and their bishops on marriage equality, and sexual ethics generally. Some bishops are treating the possibility of justice for sexual minorities as the greatest threat to the…
Bondings 2.0 on “Sex, Marriage, and the Church”: Part 2
Francis DeBernardo of New Ways Ministry continues his response to the Commonweal article on “Sex, Marriage, and the Church” at Bondings 2.0 (For the background, see my earlier post). In the first part of his response, he shared some thoughts…
