Catholicism

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No female refs allowed
A Catholic school protects a boys basketball team from being judged by a woman.
King Kaufman's Sports Daily
The basketball reformation: St. Louis coach Majerus draws archbishop's wrath by speaking freely. Plus: Congress must investigate cheating beauty queens!
Are you there, God? It's me, Rudy
An unholy trinity of issues -- abortion, immigration and his messy personal life -- could hurt Giuliani's chances with his key constituency, Catholic voters.
The accidental heretic
I'm a devoted Catholic and a huge Philip Pullman fan. Can a church that condemns him still embrace someone like me?
The Giuliani code
According to Newsweek, the ex-mayor's situational ethics derive from his working-class Italian Catholic background. Where's Bill Donohue when you need him?
Bless me, Mother ...
Women are ordained as Catholic priests in a ceremony some call profane.
Catholic Charities' birth control battle
The charity group tries to exclude contraceptives coverage for employees and fails, again.
Naughty nuns excommunicated
Vatican ejects six American Catholic nuns for following the Army of Mary.
Giuliani's loyalty to an accused priest
A grand jury accused Alan Placa of molestation and his diocese has suspended him, but the presidential candidate continues to employ his lifelong best friend as a consultant.
What does a girl have to do to get excommunicated?
Catholic officials keep threatening to excommunicate pro-choice politicians and activists like me. I think they're bluffing, and canon law is on my side.
Bill Donohue vs. the world (especially women)
Frances Kissling, head of Catholics for a Free Choice, talks about the right-wing activist who forced the John Edwards campaign to part with one of its bloggers.
Finding my religion
Fifteen years ago, I converted from Catholicism to Islam. My mother still doesn't understand my choice, but there's not a day that I regret it.
Generation Dem
Beyond the failure of Karl Rove, the momentous 2006 elections signaled the emergence of a younger, bluer America that could reshape politics for years to come.
"I will disobey this unjust law"
On Monday, a dozen women will be ordained Catholic priests in a forbidden ceremony in Pittsburgh. But can the womenpriests movement ever succeed?
Dear Pope Benedict, I am incensed
I'm not anti-Catholic. I just don't like the way they smell.
Feel-good gay parenting story of the day
Jesse, and his two mommies, are embraced by a Boston-area Catholic school.
Anne Lamott on the rights of the born
The novelist and memoirist tells off a roomful of Catholics about abortion.
These Republicans oppose Alito
GOP Majority for Choice: Judge is "out of step with mainstream Americans."
Cosmo, it ain't
True Girl magazine for Catholic teens to launch in January.
Compassionate conservative
John Paul II has been appropriated by the American right. But his "culture of life" was not the same as theirs.
The gospel according to Jimmy Breslin
New York's greatest living newspaper columnist says the Catholic Church, corrupted by sexual scandal and creeping right-wing ideology, is dying out in America. And he sheds no tears.
How should John Kerry talk about values?
Rep. Barney Frank, Barbara Dafoe Whitehead, Alan Wolfe, Thomas Frank, Andrew Greeley and others weigh in on how Kerry should define America -- and defeat Bush's morality crusade.
Signs and wonders
A journalist's investigation of holy Christian visions turns into a tortured spiritual quest.
Letters
Readers weigh in Gary Kamiya's "A Tale of Two Miseries," Catholics' view of the presidential election, and Sen. Zell Miller's recent attack on Bush's critics.
The Catholic factor
Will John Kerry's fellow Catholics turn out for him the way they did for the last JFK?
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