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While the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops has denied that there is a national strategy for the Church to fight sex abuse cases more aggressively, even the Church’s staunchest defenders see the pattern. As William Donohue, the pugilistic president of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, told the New York Times this week, bishops are going after SNAP because “SNAP is a menace to the Catholic Church.”

Mormon moms organize to beat back controversial bill.

A nun and a Catholic OB/GYN talk to RD.

Why are the US Catholic Bishops exerting so much energy and money and time on the matter of contraception, with no similarly public cries of outrage against the death penalty, state-sponsored torture, or the two preemptive wars in which the US has involved itself for fully a decade?

Public Religion Research Institute asks the right question.

Our homosexuality (or bisexuality or transgenderism) is, for them, simply a symptom of sin—something we can change, like underwear.

Scott Lively once said he dropped “a nuclear bomb against the gay agenda in Uganda.”

Trying to explain disparities in polling on birth control coverage.

An “affront to women.”