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I READ WITH INTEREST YOUR survey analysis “How Catholics Voted” by Karl Agne (Dec. 18, 2020). The findings include items of political, demographic ...
Poll workers often go unpaid or are paid very little. For this reason, I now understand why BIPOC, lower income individuals or just the “Average Jo...
WITH EXIT POLLING Indicating 56% of Catholics support legalized abortion, “How Catholics Voted” (Dec. 18, 2020) was an energizing piece describing ...
I WAS NOT PREPARED FOR THE flood of emotions and questions I had reading the title of Pearl Ricks’ piece, “Making a Failed System Work.” As a Black...
All Faiths and None: A Guide to Protecting Religious Liberty for Everyone Law, Rights, and Religion Project at Columbia University and Auburn Semin...
IN LIGHT OF THE HISTORIC 2020 elections, the most recent issues of Conscience have generated a great deal of reflection for me. Taken together, the...
As an estimated 98% of abortions in Poland are directly attributable to severe defects and fetal abnormalities, the practical consequences of the c...
AFTER DECADES OF STRUGGLE on the part of pro-choice activists, in a historic move that made news across the globe, Argentina in late January 2021 become only the second democratically elected government in South America to legalize abortion.
AS REPORTED IN A FEBRUARY 2021 New York Times piece by Julie Turkewitz, unplanned pregnancies in Venezuela have exploded as the country sinks furth...
THE INTER-AMERICAN COURT of Human Rights heard a case in March 2021 that could force El Salvador to acknowledge that its draconian abortion policie...
As only the second Catholic president in American history, Biden is the first to oppose hierarchical church dogma on the teaching on abortion, and ...
“The Long Southern Strategy: How Chasing White Voters in the South Changed American Politics” Angie Maxwell and Todd Shields (Oxford University Pre...
NEAR THE END OF HIS SECOND presidential term, Ronald Reagan attempted to make good on a campaign promise to restrict abortion rights. He turned to ...
What does it mean to trust women and value individual conscience? World-renowned experts agree: Catholics - and many people of faith - all over the...
As the Holy See, representatives of the Catholic church use direct access to the UN’s General Assembly and influential international conferences to...
In 2018, members of the Coalition for Liberty & Justice produced "When Religious Freedom Hurts." The video tells the story of three women--Debbie,...
The Value of Life: Scientific and Moral Reflections on Abortion What is life? When and how does it begin? How do we know it's present? Can we end ...
The Secret History of Sex, Choice and Catholics