Vatican – Lisa Miller

Vatican’s use of term ‘radical feminist’ says more about cardinals than nuns they rebuke

It surprises me a little that the men who run things at the Vatican did not use their most favorite recent pejorative – “feminist” — when they rapped the knuckles of Margaret Farley, a nun who has long been a professor at Yale, for having written a book about sex and love that condones masturbation (and as […]

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After Vatican’s rebuke of nuns, time to hear Mary’s voice

On Faith, Washington Post / 1 Comment

Imagine the fury of the men of Galilee when a young, unmarried girl showed up in their village pregnant. They must have talked about punishments. Stoning — a legitimate penalty, condoned by Deuteronomy — would have been appropriate, although the more compassionate among them might have suggested something gentler: ostracism or banishment. If the girl

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Belgium Bucks the Vatican

Newsweek

The Vatican has clearly stated that when investigating cases of sex abuse, “civil law concerning the reporting of crimes to the appropriate authorities should always be followed.” History shows, however, that such cooperation is not always the norm. For more than a thousand years in Europe, church and state were rarely separate. The Vatican has

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The Catholic Church Attacks Nuns

BeliefWatch: Lisa Miller, Newsweek

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

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NBC Nightly News Interviews Lisa: “The Birth Control Pill and Catholics”

Appearances and Media, Video

On May 5th, 2010, Lisa appeared on NBC’s “Nightly News” to discuss the Vatican, Catholicism and birth control. Visit MSNBC or view the segment below.

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Catholic Bishops Get It Right on Immigration

BeliefWatch: Lisa Miller, Newsweek / 10 Comments

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

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The Troubled Future of Catholic Celibacy

BeliefWatch: Lisa Miller, Newsweek

In 1998 a Roman Catholic nun named Marie McDonald wrote a brief and painful summary of her concerns to her colleagues and superiors. It was labeled “strictly confidential.” She was worried, she said, about the sexual abuse of nuns by Roman Catholic priests in Africa. The memo—titled “The Problem of the Sexual Abuse of African

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NBC Nightly News Interviews Lisa: Vatican Scandals

Appearances and Media, Video

On April 4nd. 2010, Lisa appeared on NBC’s “Nightly News” to discuss recent scandals and the Vatican’s response. Visit MSNBC or view the segment below.

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A Women’s Place is in the Church

BeliefWatch: Lisa Miller, Newsweek / 1 Comment

Here they are, the members of history’s oldest and most elite all-male club, trying to manage what began as a domestic crisis. For decades, priests in America, Europe, Ireland, Brazil (and God knows where else) abused—raped or otherwise molested—children and teenagers not in the frescoed halls of the Vatican but in their own backyards: on