For more than a century, anti-Catholicism was a powerful force in the region’s culture and politics. But religious pluralism ultimately triumphed in the ‘Queen City.’
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Mary, as the Immaculate Conception, became patroness of the United States before the Vatican officially defined that belief as dogma.
The US president’s slurs against Pope Leo will cost him votes at home and allies abroad.
The term ‘pro-life’ can seem simple – but how Americans and advocacy groups interpret it varies widely.
May 2024 marks the 100th anniversary of the Immigration Act of 1924, which sharply cut the number of people allowed into the US.
The Pilgrims who started the first Thanksgiving tradition after they landed in Plymouth were following the customs they had grown up with, originating in medieval times.
In the midterms, some religious voters may be motivated by the argument that if abortion is funded with tax dollars, it makes them personally complicit in sin.
When ideological enemies talk across their great divides, something good can happen – it reduces stereotypes and inflammatory language directed at people who don’t agree on the abortion rights issue.
An article that used geolocation data to place a priest at gay bars raises questions over journalistic ethics, and shines a light on the Catholic media landscape.
Amid controversy over US bishops’ plans to deny Communion to pro-abortion rights Catholics, a scholar of sacramental theology explains the importance of the ritual to members of the church.
A debate over whether President Biden’s views on abortion disqualify him from taking Communion serves to expose a rift between US bishops and the pope, and is a threat to the church itself.
Communion is the central act of Catholic worship. So why are some US bishops trying to stop President Joe Biden – a devout Catholic – from partaking?
On January 20, President Joe Biden inaugurated a new chapter in the country’s narrative and expressed faith in the nation’s healing and redemption.
St. Matthew is the patron saint of civil servants – making the Washington, D.C., church bearing his name a fitting venue for presidents, both past and present.
The US Catholic Church is more diverse and more divided than it was in JFK’s time. Biden could offer an opportunity for the church to move beyond so-called “culture war” issues.
In the 2016 election, Donald Trump won 60% of the American Catholic vote. This year, it will be difficult for him to obtain a similar score, and that could have immense consequences.
Though often seen as socially conservative, the Catholic church has a strong progressive strain that can be traced back 50 years to Latin America’s liberation struggles.
While many American Catholics believe demons and exorcism to be part of a distant past, an expert explains how beliefs that sexual desires could be part of demonic temptation still persist.
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Professor of Public Theology and Director of The Bernardin Center, Catholic Theological Union
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Visiting Assistant Professor of History, Miami University
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Professeur des Universités en histoire contemporaine et relations internationales, Aix-Marseille Université (AMU)
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Professor of Religion, Wesleyan University
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Founding Dean of the Schar School of Policy and Government, George Mason University
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Lecturer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
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Professor Emerita of Religious Studies, College of the Holy Cross
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Gudorf Chair in Catholic Intellectual Traditions, University of Dayton
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Professor of Religion, University of Florida
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Lecturer in Sociology, Royal Holloway, University of London
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Professor of American Studies, University of Notre Dame
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Associate Professor of Political Science, Miami University
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Research Associate in the Institute for Diplomacy and International Affairs, Loughborough University
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Religious Collections Librarian/Archivist and Associate Professor, University Libraries, University of Dayton
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