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Catholics caught between bishops, Obama’s birth control mandate

May 24, 2012 By Lisa Miller

Mommy and daddy are fighting, and the anguished children don’t know where to turn. This is the state of the Roman Catholic Church in the United States today. A small group of very conservative bishops has hijacked the church, or at least the public voice of the church. The bishops are playing the role of […]

Filed Under: On Faith, Washington Post Tagged With: Barack Obama, birth control, catholicism, Catholics

Rick Santorum, cafeteria Catholic?

March 22, 2012 By Lisa Miller

He has seven children, attends a Latin Mass and has driven issues of reproductive rights back into the center of American politics. In 2002, he traveled to Rome to express his support for the founder of the ultra-conservative Catholic lay movement called Opus Dei. With these boxes on his religious resume checked, Rick Santorum has convinced […]

Filed Under: On Faith, Washington Post Tagged With: catholicism, death penalty, immigration, Lisa Miller, Rick Santorum, torture

Justice Scalia speaks for himself on death penalty, not the Catholic Church

October 27, 2011 By Lisa Miller

That Justice Antonin Scalia believes in execution as a moral form of punishment is a well-known fact. That he is an observant, traditional Roman Catholic is, similarly, well-known. That he appears to believe his church supports the death penalty and that he’s willing to stake his job on that conviction is nothing short of astonishing. But there […]

Filed Under: On Faith, Washington Post Tagged With: catholicism, Conference of Catholic Bishops, death penalty, Evangelium Vitae, Justice Antonin Scalia, Lisa Miller

About Lisa Miller

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Lisa Miller is a staff writer at New York magazine. She is the former religion columnist for the Washington Post, former senior editor of Newsweek magazine, and author of "Heaven: Our Enduring Fascination with the Afterlife."

In 2014, Lisa Miller was nominated for the National Magazine Award and featured in Best Magazine Writing of 2014.

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