Catholics on Townhall

Freedom? Yeah, Right! Fri May 25

Kathryn Lopez

Confronted with a 'train wreck,' the new archbishop of Baltimore implores us to 'pray diligently as communities, as families and as individuals.' ... more
Paul Ryan’s Budget Is a Moral Budget Mon May 7

Star Parker

Rep. Paul Ryan, (R-Wis), chairman of the House budget committee, provoked some angry push back when he claimed that not only is his proposed sweeping revamp of the US budget fiscally sound but also morally sound. ... more
Pa. priest trial painful, poignant for Catholics Sat Apr 21

AP News
Uh Oh: Americans Trust Obama More than Romney on the Economy? Fri Apr 20

Daniel Doherty
Bishops say Catholics must disobey unjust laws Thu Apr 12

AP News
Pope Blesses Castroism Fri Mar 30

Humberto Fontova

“Viva Christ the King! –Down with Communism!” the defiant yells “made the walls of La Cabana prison tremble,” wrote eyewitness to these firing squad massacres, Armando Valladares, who suffered 22 torture-filled years in Castro’s prisons and was later appointed by Ronald Reagan as U.S. ambassador to the U.N. Human Rights Commission. ... more
Republican Catholics cool so far to Rick Santorum Sun Mar 18

AP News
Santorum's Catholic Problem Mon Mar 12

Salena Zito

As a devout Mormon, Mitt Romney was the presidential candidate experts anticipated could have a problem winning over Catholic voters. ... more
English Catholics campaign against gay marriage Sun Mar 11

AP News
Obama's Birth Control Bait and Switch Wed Feb 29

Ken Connor

With the exception of Catholics and others in the religious community that closely follow such issues, few people took note of the Obama administration's rhetorical shift from "freedom of religion" to "freedom of worship" in 2010. ... more
States, Catholics sue over contraceptives rule Thu Feb 23

Reuters News
Leftism, Religion & Politics: Why Liberals Will Always Come Home Wed Feb 22

Brian Birdnow

Regular readers of Townhall may have noticed a column penned last week by this writer questioning the easy expectations of many observers that most liberal Catholics will abandon President Obama over the birth control mandates. ... more
Liberals are the True Aggressors in Culture Wars Tue Feb 14

Jonah Goldberg

If you're not with us, you're against us. President Bush popularized this expression after 9/11 to describe his foreign policy doctrine: Countries couldn't support or indulge terrorists and be our friends at the same time. But his detractors quickly turned it into a fairly paranoid vision of domestic political life, as if Bush had been talking about domestic opponents and dissenters. ... more
U.S. Catholics lean slightly toward Romney: Reuters/Ipsos poll Mon Feb 13

Reuters News
Obama's Anti-Religious Implosion Mon Feb 13

Matt Barber

Barack Obama may have just lost the election. He has foolishly gone to war in an election year with tens of millions of Catholics, Protestants and Jews – Democrat, Republican and independent alike. He has thrown down a radical feminist gauntlet and dared the Church to pick it up. ... more
Obama Losing With Catholics? Think Again Sun Feb 12

Austin Hill

“Can Obama win his battle with the Catholic Church?” ... more
Team Obama Fumbles Ruling, Offends Catholics Fri Feb 10

Scott Rasmussen

Every sports fan knows that close contests are often decided by mistakes rather than heroics. In this year's Super Bowl, Tom Brady threw just one interception, but Eli Manning didn't throw any. Manning's team won. ... more
Freedom From Religion Fri Feb 10

Oliver North

"We don't need you, so shut up!" That's the message the Obama administration has sent loud and clear to America's Roman Catholics. ... more
Crumble: Democrats Abandoning Obama on Unconstitutional Birth Control Mandate Thu Feb 9

Guy Benson
Do Catholics Have Too Many Babies? Thu Feb 9

Judge Andrew Napolitano

When we were colonists and fought a war against the king and Parliament so that we could secede from the British Empire and be independent of it, we also fought for the value of personal freedom. That is the idea that in matters of personal choice, the government should play no role. The king only cared about the colonists' personal choices if he could control or tax them. ... more