Frances Kissling

Frances Kissling is a visiting scholar at the Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania and former president of Catholics for a Free Choice.

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Religion Dispatches

Catholic Boy’s Club: Religion and the Supreme Court

Is it time for a non-Catholic on the Supreme Court? Or, put another way, should we not insist that the Court be religiously diverse?

Frances Kissling

May 18, 2009

Antonin Scalia
religious test

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Religion Dispatches

Right Wing Catholics Attack Obama Faith-Based Council Member, Harry Knox

Right wingers call for Knox’s ouster. What’d he do? He took issue with the Pope’s rejection of condom use as a precaution against AIDS.

Frances Kissling

May 15, 2009

Anti-LGBTQ & Anti-Transgender
Reproductive Control
contraception

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Religion Dispatches

What Do You Think?: “Padre Oprah” Scandal Has Many Asking Whether Priests Should Be Allowed to Marry

Father Alberto Cutie has admitted to falling in love with a woman and breaking his vow of celibacy. Is it time for the celibacy of the priesthood to end?

Frances Kissling

May 11, 2009

popular culture
catholicism
scandal

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