2011-03-14T00:24:18Z Catholic professor Anthony Stevens-Arroyo looks at the Catholic Church impact on American politics and culture. tag:onfaith.washingtonpost.com,2011:/onfaith/catholicamerica/630 Copyright (c) 2011, WashingtonPost.Newsweek Interactive 2011-03-14T00:24:18Z tag:washingtonpost.com,2011-03-13:/onfaith/catholicamerica2011/03/the_rss_feed_for_this_blog_has_moved.html

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The Republican-controlled Congress recently cut federal funding to Planned Parenthood and the vote has been projected as a great victory for Catholic opposition to abortion. However, the premise behind this proposed legislation threatens to send Catholicism back to the days of the Know Nothings in the 1840s....Please click on the title to continue reading this entry.

Anthony M. Stevens-Arroyo 2011-02-25T16:35:58Z tag:washingtonpost.com,2011-02-24:/onfaith/catholicamerica2011/02/fighting_anti-union_conspiracy.html

The Wisconsin governor's proposal to repair the state budget has acquired the characteristics of a conspiracy. Catholic teaching (Caritas in veritate, #25) unequivocally* opposes the plan to strip union workers of their right to collective bargaining, but with evidence that this proposal is part of a secret and well-financed plot to coordinate the same effort in key states, the opposition of the Church assumes a new moral dimension. It may have been a prank phone...Please click on the title to continue reading this entry.

Anthony M. Stevens-Arroyo 2011-02-19T02:13:24Z tag:washingtonpost.com,2011-02-17:/onfaith/catholicamerica2011/02/the_cardinals_new_set_of_clothes.html

What would happen if the bishops called for a special collection to maintain the institution and no one gave a cent? The result, I think, would be like the tale of the Emperor's new set of clothes. We face a future in which the different segments of the church have radically different priorities but not enough finances for all of them at the same time. There might have been a time when the laity had...Please click on the title to continue reading this entry.

Anthony M. Stevens-Arroyo 2011-02-10T19:29:32Z tag:washingtonpost.com,2011-02-08:/onfaith/catholicamerica2011/02/obama_and_the_redistribution_of_wealth.html

President Barack Obama arrives to speak at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Monday, Feb. 7, 2011. Photographer: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg Whatever one thinks of President Obama's speech to the U. S. Chamber of Commerce on February 7, 2011, there is no denying that the presentation included policy (paths to goals) and politics (getting votes). Time will tell which aspect will be more lasting, but Obama's policy statements deserve attention for...Please click on the title to continue reading this entry.

Anthony M. Stevens-Arroyo 2011-02-02T17:32:52Z tag:washingtonpost.com,2011-02-01:/onfaith/catholicamerica2011/02/muslim_liberation_theology_on_the_march.html

Egyptian Muslim clerics join a demonstration on February 1, 20 at Cairo s Tahrir Square as massive tides of protesters flooded Cairo for the biggest outpouring of anger yet in their relentless drive to oust President Hosni Mubarak's regime. LONGARI/Getty Image Mass demonstrations for democracy have spread overnight from Tunisia to Egypt to Jordan and throughout the Muslim world in ways that parallel a similar spread of liberation movements in Latin America a generation...Please click on the title to continue reading this entry.

Anthony M. Stevens-Arroyo 2011-01-28T21:14:32Z tag:washingtonpost.com,2011-01-27:/onfaith/catholicamerica2011/01/adios_evangelical-catholic_coalitions.html

I saw the gloating over the repeal of the Affordable Health Care Act from an evangelical on this page the same day I read that the US Catholic Bishops do not favor repeal. I thought to myself: "Adios, Evangelical-Catholic coalition!" In fact, I'm not sure there ever really was much of a coalition of Catholics with evangelicals....Please click on the title to continue reading this entry.

Anthony M. Stevens-Arroyo 2011-01-18T22:12:08Z tag:washingtonpost.com,2011-01-18:/onfaith/catholicamerica2011/01/did_obamas_visit_heal_gabrielle_giffords.html

Shortly after President Barack Obama visited wounded Arizona Rep. Gabriella Giffords in the hospital and prayed for her, "she opened her eyes for the first time." The speed of her recovery ever since has been remarkable. Did Obama's visit cause Giffords' consequent healing? Atheists and others who deny any spiritual reality will likely call the events a mere coincidence, but we believers have to use more complex criteria....Please click on the title to continue reading this entry.

Anthony M. Stevens-Arroyo 2011-01-17T04:54:57Z tag:washingtonpost.com,2011-01-07:/onfaith/catholicamerica2011/01/was_john_paul_ii_the_great.html

Recent reports from Rome indicate Pope John Paul II will soon be beatified. This is after the title "The Great" has already been bestowed upon the Polish pope in so naming a university, an institute, and a high school. The issue of sainthood and greatness, however, are two different matters. "The Great" has been reserved in history to pontiffs like Pope Leo I (r. 440-461) and Gregory I (r. 590-604) whose administrations of the Church...Please click on the title to continue reading this entry.

Anthony M. Stevens-Arroyo 2010-12-31T17:30:26Z tag:washingtonpost.com,2010-12-28:/onfaith/catholicamerica2010/12/predictions_for_catholic_america_in_2011_1.html

Last year I was 10 for 15, not bad as a winning percentage, but only if you count the "won't happen" category.* With a bit more explanation, this year's predictions focus in on controversial issues I expect to surface in the next 12 months....Please click on the title to continue reading this entry.

Anthony M. Stevens-Arroyo 2010-12-22T20:26:51Z tag:washingtonpost.com,2010-12-21:/onfaith/catholicamerica2010/12/may_your_christmas_be_catholic_and_gay.html

The repeal of the Don't Ask Don't Tell (DADT) provision for the U.S. armed forces was welcomed by a majority of the American public, and in this season of family Christmas celebrations, the change in social attitudes towards gays and lesbians will pose some important choices for America's Catholics sitting around the holiday table....Please click on the title to continue reading this entry.

Anthony M. Stevens-Arroyo 2010-12-14T22:44:32Z tag:washingtonpost.com,2010-12-14:/onfaith/catholicamerica2010/12/making_the_dream_act_reality.html

The time is now in Catholic America to pass the Dream Act. Many in Washington are trying to make political hay during the lame-duck session of Congress, however, Catholic support for this immigration reform is about ethics and morality, not partisan politics. The Bible tells us that in God's Kingdom to come "the sins of the father should not be visited upon the children" (Ezekiel 18:20). It is in the spirit of Jesus that Catholics...Please click on the title to continue reading this entry.

Anthony M. Stevens-Arroyo 2010-12-08T16:55:31Z tag:washingtonpost.com,2010-12-08:/onfaith/catholicamerica2010/12/was_muhammad_an_advent_prophet.html

Advent celebrates the scriptural words prophesizing the coming of the Lord. But should we Catholics also include the Muslim Prophet Muhammad as one of the witnesses to Jesus? At first, the question seems strange because we usually think of prophets as "fore-telling" something that will happen in the future, and since Muhammad lived after Christ -- the reasoning goes -- he could not have predicted the birth of Christ. But Advent speaks not only of...Please click on the title to continue reading this entry.

Anthony M. Stevens-Arroyo 2010-12-02T01:07:50Z tag:washingtonpost.com,2010-12-01:/onfaith/catholicamerica2010/12/pregnant_brides_in_white_dresses.html

"Most of the Catholics asking to be married in the Church today already have been living together." Such is the testimony from priests working at the front lines in our parishes today. A new document on Catholic marriage proves the American bishops are listening. The awareness is especially noticeable among Catholics in the pews, who seem less and less shocked at women five-months pregnant walking down the aisle in a white dress. We now...Please click on the title to continue reading this entry.

Anthony M. Stevens-Arroyo 2010-11-22T20:25:16Z tag:washingtonpost.com,2010-11-22:/onfaith/catholicamerica2010/11/archbishop_dolan_goes_to_bat.html

In a surprise, New York Archbishop Timothy Dolan was elected President of the U.S. Catholic Conference of Bishops (USCCB) apparently because of his leadership style and communication skills. These will be put to work immediately in Washington and pundits who read church process as Democrat vs. Republican will likely find you can't pigeon-hole Catholic teaching so easily. (Archbishop Timothy Dolan of New York speaks during a news conference after being elected president of the U.S....Please click on the title to continue reading this entry.

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