Catholicism

Kentucky Governor Steve Beshear said January 9, 2012 for the second time in two weeks that he was rejecting a hospital merger of the publicly-funded University Hospital with a Catholic-oriented consortium, Catholic Health Initiatives (CHI).

Follow Rev. Matthew Westfox on Twitter, @MatthewWestfox

Rick and Karen Santorum seek a transmogrification of democracy in the USA in favor of a theocracy.

As a young twenty-something, I welcomed two very wanted, well-loved babies into the world.  Once things began to deteriorate between their father and I, I knew without a doubt that any future pregnancy we faced would be terminated. In October 2010, I had an abortion.

Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) discusses why he confronts elementary, middle and high school students with the question: Where do you stand on the issue of abortion?

Bishop Thomas Olmstead offically revokes St. Joseph's Hospital of its status as a Catholic hospital because it dared to save the life of a young mother of four - with an emergency abortion.

In November 2009, a young mother of four was given a life saving, emergency abortion from doctors at St. Joseph's Hospital in Phoenix, Arizona. Bishop Thomas Olmstead of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Phoenix called it "immoral" and is now threatening the hospital president in an effort to make sure they never save a pregnant woman's life again.

A Catholic high school in Seattle censors a student-written article on religion, sex-ed and Catholicism.

The Archdiocese misrepresents church law to defend the excommunication of a nun who helped save a woman's life by helping her access an abortion. Catholics for Choice calls out the inaccuracies with some clarification of canon law.

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