The bishops’ conciliatory statements are being overshadowed by the specter of punitive cruelty toward women confronting crisis pregnancies. They must speak out again.
Peter Steinfels
Peter Steinfels is a former editor of Commonweal magazine and religion reporter and columnist for The New York Times. In 2004, he and Margaret O’Brien Steinfels founded the Center for Religion and Culture at Fordham University.
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Daniel Ellsberg on the most dangerous threat we face
To those of us who campaigned against the Vietnam War as unjust and unwinnable, Daniel Ellsberg was a hero.
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Conscientious Objection
Did religious bodies that once wrestled with the morality of Vietnam war learn any lasting lesson?
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Voice Lessons: Weighing the moral authority of bishops
Weighing the moral authority of bishops