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Patricia Miller

Patricia Miller an award-winning author and journalist who writes about issues at the intersection of religion, sex and politics. She is the author of Good Catholics: The Battle over Abortion in the Catholic Church and her work has appeared in The Atlantic, Salon, The Nation, and Huffington Post.

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Philly Gives Doctors Wide Leeway with Religious Exemption

The city of Philadelphia has adopted a new religious exemption policy that allows doctors with objections to certain kinds of care to opt out of their provision, raising questions about the quality of…
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Conservatives Have Officially Become the Catholic Church's Tea Party

As the much-ballyhooed family synod lurches into its final days, with no clear consensus on even the most mild of reforms suggested by Pope Francis and lots of backbiting and political posturing (one…
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The Plot to Turn the Synod into a “Plot”

It’s official—with Ross Douthat’s conspiracy-drenched Sunday column, the idea that the synod is somehow a “plot to change Catholicism” has leapt from the far-right Catholic fringe to the conservative…
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