The Troubled Future of Catholic Celibacy
The cause of the Catholic clergy's sex-abuse scandal is no mystery: insular groups of men often do bad things. So why not break up the all-male club?
The O’Reilly Factor’s Bill O’Reilly Interviews Lisa On Sarah Palin
Bill O'Reilly Interviews Lisa about her Sarah Palin cover story on "The O'Reilly Factor."
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The O’Reilly Factor’s Bill O’Reilly Interviews Lisa On Sarah Palin
On June 15, 2010, Bill O’Reilly, host of the “O’Reilly Factor,” interviewed Lisa about her Newsweek cover story on Sarah Palin. Watch the video below from YouTube, Fox News, or view on the FoxNews.com website. Watch the latest news video at video.foxnews.com Here’s the transcript (courtesy of FoxNews.com): Interview Is Newsweek’s ‘Saint Sarah’ Cover Story Mocking [...]
Saint Sarah: Is Sarah Palin the Next Jerry Falwall?
Another memoirist might prefer to keep such matters private, but Sarah Palin is not another memoirist. In Going Rogue: An American Life, Palin describes, perhaps for the first time in the history of political autobiography, a furtive trip to an out-of-state drugstore to obtain a do-it-yourself pregnancy test. This was in the fall of 2007, [...]
Does the BP Oil Spill Herald the Apocalypse?
A growing conversation among Christian fundamentalists asks the question that may have been inevitable: is the oil spill in the gulf a sign of the coming apocalypse? About 60 million white evangelicals live in America, and about one third of them believe that the world will end in their lifetime, according to the Pew Research [...]
The Catholic Church Attacks Nuns
Earlier this month, in something of a surprise, a nun at a Catholic hospital in Phoenix was excommunicated for approving a first-trimester abortion last year at that hospital to save the life of a critically ill patient. “An unborn child is not a disease,” said Bishop Thomas Olmsted of the Phoenix diocese. “While medical professionals [...]
Do Yoga’s Hindu Roots Matter?
I don’t care much for bland spirituality, so at yoga class I generally tune out the prelude, when the teacher reads aloud—as is the custom—an inspirational passage on which to meditate. Recently, though, I was startled to attention when the teacher chose a paragraph on compassion from the Dalai Lama’s bestseller The Art of Happiness. [...]
Catholic Bishops Get It Right on Immigration
Let’s hear it for the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. I’m not even remotely joking. Catholic bishops, both in the U.S. and abroad, have taken a justified beating in the press of late (including in this magazine) over their defensive and self-serving efforts to explain the Vatican hierarchy’s role in the sex-abuse crisis that [...]
