Sean Michael Winters, writing in National Catholic Reporter, says the brouhaha over whether President Barack Obama should have been invited to deliver the commencement address at the University of Notre Dame is evidence of deeper troubles between the president and...
The California Supreme Court heard arguments Thursday on the constitutionality of a gay-marriage ban that voters approved in November. News accounts say the tone and substance of the justices' questions and comments strongly indicate that they'll uphold the ban. Here's...
America, the Jesuit magazine, has a series of online articles looking at the roles Catholic voters can and should play on the political landscape under President Barack Obama. Here's a blog item that summarizes the articles, and provides links to...
To anyone who thought Californians decided things when they voted two weeks ago to ban gay marriage: Wrong. The state Supreme Court has agreed already to hear several legal challenges to Proposition 8, which passed by a 52-48 margin. Here's...
In a letter distributed at St. Mary's Catholic Church in Greenville, S.C., the Rev. Jay Scott Newman says parishioners who supported Barack Obama (or, as the priest put it, "Barack Hussein Obama") are putting their souls at risk if they...
From The Washington Post, here's an interesting analysis of last week's vote in California to outlaw gay marriage: Seven in 10 African-American voters supported the ballot proposition that killed same-sex marriage in that state. This means, according to The Post,...
"There are many reasons not to support Sarah Palin, but the fact of her religious affiliation is not one of them. In fact, I am actually a little ashamed of Jews who object to Sarah Palin because of what she...
So says author David Gibson, on his blog on Beliefnet. Gibson was at last week's annual conference of the Religion Newswriters Association in Washington. D.C., where, he says, "Obama's two top lieutenants in faith outreach came out to address dozens...
Michelle Boorstein of The Washington Post says that in an unprecedented strategy move, the Democrats are running political ads on Christian music stations, trying to woo voters who have long enjoyed "a quiet, monogamous relationship with the Republican Party." Here's...
Nancy Frazier O'Brien of Catholic News Service reports that even though Catholics now make up an astounding 23.9 percent of the U.S. population, attempts by the two parties to woo the so-called Catholic vote may be futile. She quotes a...
As he inches closer to the Democratic presidential nomination, Barack Obama continues to reach out to Jewish voters. Here's a story from Naftali Bendavid of the Chicago Tribune. Obama has obstacles to overcome with American Jews. Some question his commitment...
"Religious voters" has long been taken to mean voters on the religious right, people who worried primarily about abortion, gay marriage, prayer in schools and other such issues. But now, reports Lillian Cunningham of Medill News Service, there are many...
More than 30 percent of the state's population is Catholic, and the percentage is believed to be higher among Democrats. Here's a story from the Associated Press about what Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama are doing to woo Catholc voters...
Barack Obama, according to Philip Elliott of the Associated Press, "has a solid Senate record in support of Israel." Still, Jewish voters seem to have their doubts about him. For one thing, he was endorsed by the famoulsy anti-Semitic Louis...
The New York Times says many old-guard leaders of the evangelical movement are wary of Mike Huckabee because of "his populist approach to economic issues and his criticism of the Bush administration’s foreign policy." At the same time, his open...
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