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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

Rick Santorum’s religious time machine

March 15, 2012 By Lisa Miller

It’s impossible for some of us to understand why and how former senator Rick Santorum, who has zero qualifications to be president of the United States and whose positions on family and social issues are prehistoric, continues to survive and even thrive this Republican primary season. His victories in Alabama and Mississippi this week only further our astonishment. […]

Filed Under: On Faith, Washington Post Tagged With: Lisa Miller, Rick Santorum, traditionalism

Romney, Santorum and archaic ideas on fertility

March 2, 2012 By Lisa Miller

Between them, Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum have as many children — 12 — as there were tribes of Israel. Ron Paul has five of his own, and in an early debate, perhaps unwilling to be outdone by Michele Bachmann’s fostering of dozens, Paul boasted that when he worked as a physician he delivered “4,000 […]

Filed Under: On Faith, Washington Post Tagged With: family planning, fertility, Lisa Miller, Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum

The religion and politics of division

February 23, 2012 By Lisa Miller

Last week, the Christianity police, in the persons of Rick Santorum and Franklin Graham, came forward to discredit the president’s religious beliefs. First, Santorum called President Obama’s theology “phony”; then, on “Morning Joe,” Graham refused to accept Obama into his Christian band of brothers: “He has said he’s a Christian, so I just have to assume that he […]

Filed Under: On Faith, Washington Post Tagged With: Barack Obama, division, Lisa Miller, politics, Religion, Rick Santorum

For Santorums, personal tragedy turned political

January 20, 2012 By Lisa Miller

Haunting the political landscape is the ghost (or soul or spirit or memory or image, depending on how you see these things) of Gabriel Michael Santorum. Born at 19 gestational weeks, too young to live outside the uterus, Gabriel died within two hours. The story is well known. In October 1996, Karen Santorum underwent surgery […]

Filed Under: On Faith, Washington Post Tagged With: Abortion, Lisa Miller, Rick Santorum

The new evangelical vote

January 6, 2012 By Lisa Miller

White evangelical voters just aren’t as predictable as they used to be. That’s the news out of Iowa – and it’s bound to be reflected in Republican primary results all over the country. The most interesting poll data from the Iowa caucuses are these: Mitt Romney won in the cities. Rick Santorum won in the rural areas. In Iowa, where the […]

Filed Under: On Faith, Washington Post Tagged With: election, evangelicals, Lisa Miller, Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum

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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