Showing posts with label Catholic vote. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Catholic vote. Show all posts
Monday, January 29, 2018

Frank Schaeffer on Why White Evangelicals Love Trump: "The Context Is American Racism" — Implications for White Catholic "Pro-Life" Voters

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This is the kind of testimony that white Catholics who claim to be motivated solely by opposition to abortion as they cast their votes d...
Tuesday, April 11, 2017

Religion and Poltics in News: From Passion of Southern Christians to Walk-Out in Italian Catholic Parish

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Because of the intersection of Jewish Passover and Christian Holy Week, the news is chock-full of religion stories and religious commen...
Tuesday, September 20, 2016

Patricia Miller on Why White Catholics of the John Paul II Church May Be Rejecting Donald Trump: "Seems Awfully Quiet in the Catholic Trenches This Year"

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In a just-published essay at Religion Dispatches ,  Patricia Miller takes a sharp look at the discernible trend of white Catholics t...
Friday, July 29, 2016

Father Thomas Reese on How Catholic Vote May Well Decide 2016 Elections: This Analysis Leads to the Question, What's Wrong with White Catholics?

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Father Thomas Reese at National Catholic Reporter  this morning on how the 2016 elections, which present a stark choice between two ve...
Monday, July 25, 2016

Robert P. Jones and The End of White Christian America: Want to Understand Trump's Rise to Power? Pay Attention to White Christian Strategy

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In her recent commentary on Robert P. Jones' book  The End of White Christian America (NY: Simon & Schuster, 2016) at Nation...
Friday, September 28, 2012

Big News: Obama and Democrats Enjoying Wide Lead Among Catholics

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The big news now vis-a-vis Catholics and politics in the U.S.: as Daniel Burke reports at Religion News Service, a Pew Research Center...
Friday, September 21, 2012

Catholics Ignoring Bishops, Trending Democratic As U.S. Elections Near: Polling Data, My Reflections

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Snatching a free moment later in the day to catch up on news-reading--and to post the following:
Wednesday, September 5, 2012

Catholic Vote.org Still Pushing False Meme That HHS Guidelines Fund Abortions

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Fred Clarkson couldn't be more right in his analysis of the dog whistle the religious right uses to keep "values" vote...
Wednesday, February 8, 2012

HHS Controversy and Catholic Vote: A Selection of Recent Articles

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Commentary from various perspectives about the bishops' war on Obama over the HHS guidelines: Charlotte Allen finds it "...

Alex Pareene and Sarah Jaffe on Why Republicans (and U.S. Catholic Bishops) Reignited Culture Wars

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Alex Pareene at Salon this morning, on the Santorum bump as the political and religious right try to reignite the never-ending cultu...
Tuesday, February 7, 2012

Sara Seltzer on How Popular Reaction Drove Backlash against Komen Decision: Implications for Catholic Discussion

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As Sarah Seltzer notes at Alternet today, part of what has the political and religious right so exercised about the reversal of Komen...
Monday, May 18, 2009

Post Post-Mortem: Obama's Notre Dame Appearance

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As I said earlier today, I realize we play right into the hands of those who are manufacturing the bogus Catholics-vs.-Obama meme, in contin...
Friday, May 1, 2009

Spinning the Pew Data: Attempt of the Right to Depict American Catholicism as Robust

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“Many Americans Raised Catholic, Still Are.” That’s the announcement blaring today from the website of one of my local news outlets ( here ...
Thursday, April 16, 2009

Americablog: Republicans Dictating Who Is and Isn't a Real Catholic

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And on the theme about which I've been blogging the past two days--the attempt of the right (and its enablers of the center) to limit th...

Robert Parry on the Collusion of Centrist Commentariats with the Right: The Rhetoric of Obama as Polarizer

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I blogged yesterday ( here and here ) about the continuing collusion of centrist American Catholic political commentators with the politica...
Wednesday, April 15, 2009

And Furthermore: Obama, Catholic Voters, and Michael Sean Winters

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And as the day goes on, I realize there’s more to say about Michael Sean Winters and his argument that Mr. Obama is failing to be a hit with...

Obama and Catholic Voters: No Base Hit for Michael Sean Winters

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At the America blogsite the past two days, Michael Sean Winters is fretting about Mr. Obama’s obtuseness (in Winters’ view) to Catholic con...
Thursday, April 2, 2009

Thugs Are Thugs Are Thugs: Joan Walsh and Tim Rutten on Cardinal Newman Society

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Meanwhile, the Cardinal Newman Society ( here ) remains the gift that keeps on giving—for bloggers like me, at least; for those of us intere...
Wednesday, March 25, 2009

More on Strategies to Support Notre Dame Against Assault of Right-Wing Bullies

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I apologize for trying readers' patience with yet another posting today. But, since a posting by Tom Mattzie on Huffington Post today do...
Tuesday, March 3, 2009

The Catholic Right as Republican Mouthpiece: Frank Cocozzelli's Analysis

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As an appendix to my discussion of the Catholic right's capitulation to the political right--its subordination of Catholic belief and va...