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How Obama should fight the ‘war on religion’

February 16, 2012 By Lisa Miller

A very wise Trappist monk once told me that unless everyone gets to heaven, no one will. It’s this sense of mutual responsibility — fundamental to the Judeo-Christian tradition — that President Obama needs to emphasize now. It seems far-fetched, from my perspective, to think that God should have any opinion at all about contraceptive […]

Filed Under: On Faith, Washington Post Tagged With: Barack Obama, Conference of Catholic Bishops, Lisa Miller, war on religion

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

Catholic Bishops Get It Right on Immigration

April 29, 2010 By Lisa Miller

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 […]

Filed Under: BeliefWatch: Lisa Miller, Newsweek Tagged With: Arizona, Cardinal Rogers Mahony, Conference of Catholic Bishops, immigration, Jan Brewer, Lisa Miller, S.B. 1070, Vatican

The Vanishing Role of Women in Church Readings

April 28, 2010 By Lisa Miller

Response to my April 12 article “A Woman’s Place Is in the Church” was overwhelming. Maureen Dowd cited it in her New York Times column. Sister Mary Ann Walsh, director of media relations for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, critiqued it in an op-ed. But one of the questions most often asked in e-mails […]

Filed Under: BeliefWatch: Lisa Miller, Newsweek Tagged With: Bible, Bible Stories, Conference of Catholic Bishops, lectionary, Lisa Miller, liturgy, Mary Ann Walsh, Maureen Dowd, New York Times, Ruth Fox, Sister Mary, U.S. Conference of Bishops

Health Care: Abortion Is Not the Only Moral Issue

November 18, 2009 By Lisa Miller

We suffer, this week, from a moral myopia. Thanks to the passage in Congress of a health-reform bill, abortion is in the news again, but with the same old warriors brandishing their same old spears. Kate Michelman and Frances Kissling talk about how the current version of the health-care bill “risks the well-being of millions […]

Filed Under: BeliefWatch: Lisa Miller, Newsweek Tagged With: Abortion, Conference of Catholic Bishops, Lisa Miller

Campaign Soul Searching

November 16, 2007 By Lisa Miller

On Nov. 14, in the enormous ballroom of the Baltimore Marriott Waterfront hotel, hundreds of black-clad bishops were called to prayer-and then they got down to business. After a long debate, 221 of 224 members of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops approved the document, called “Faithful Citizenship.” The goal: to encourage American Catholics […]

Filed Under: Religion Tagged With: Conference of Catholic Bishops

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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NOMINATED FOR THE NATIONAL MAGAZINE AWARD

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