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Michael J. O’Loughlin
Michael J. O’Loughlin is national correspondent at America and author of Hidden Mercy: AIDS, Catholics, and the Untold Stories of Compassion in the Face of Fear.
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Articles by Michael J. O’Loughlin
FaithDispatches
U.S. bishops express concern and cautious optimism about relations with the Trump administration.
Michael J. O’Loughlin
Catholic bishops on Tuesday chose for their top leadership posts two prelates from states touching Mexico.
FaithDispatches
Live-blogging the U.S. Catholic bishops' fall meeting
Michael J. O’Loughlin
National correspondent Michael O'Loughlin is covering the USCCB gathering for America.
FaithDispatches
A contender for U.S. bishops’ top spot calls for greater protection for the undocumented.
Michael J. O’Loughlin
“In our country, we need to start building bridges and bringing people together.”
Voters wait outside a polling location for the presidential election Nov. 8 shortly after polls opened at Annunciation Church in Philadelphia. (CNS photo/Tracie Van Auken, EPA)
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Some Catholics say politics were prevalent in parishes ahead of election
Michael J. O’Loughlin
Helping drive up Mr. Trump's numbers, some Catholics say, were clergy and parish leaders.
Pins reading "The America Decide" are displayed during a reception organized by the U.S. Embassy to wait for the results of the 2016 U.S. Presidential election, in Rome, Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2016. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Catholic voters helped give Trump his unexpected victory
Michael J. O’Loughlin
Despite months of pre-election polls showing Catholics backing Hillary Clinton, exit polls show Donald Trump won a majority of Catholic votes on Tuesday.
FaithIn All Things
Pro-life Catholics denounce priest who used aborted fetus to support Trump
Michael J. O’Loughlin
An official with the Archdiocese of New York, where the video was filmed, called it “absolutely appalling.”
Pope Francis delivers his speech an audience with representatives of the popular movements at the Vatican Saturday, Nov. 5, 2016. (L'Osservatore Romano/Pool Photo via AP)
FaithDispatches
Days before the U.S. election, Pope Francis warns against the politics of fear
Michael J. O’Loughlin
Many of the themes the pope touched on have played out in debates between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton.
Some of the 700 who were registered at St. Mark Catholic Church. Photos courtesy of the Hope Border Institute.
Politics & SocietyDispatches
On the U.S.-Mexico border, Catholics get out the vote
Michael J. O’Loughlin
“Hispanics in this area have not always felt that their voices have been recognized or heard...the push is, if we don’t vote, we will remain invisible.”
Sister Jamie Phelps, O.P., of Chicago, begins the series.
FaithSigns Of the Times
Unprecedented Preaching
Michael J. O’Loughlin
One of the more intriguing questions Pope Francis prompted earlier this year when he announced that a Vatican commission would study whether the early church had women deacons was: How would Catholics react to women preaching?
FaithSigns Of the Times
Discerning a New Role
Michael J. O’Loughlin
“Well, she read in the newspaper that you pick up after yourself and you cook your own food and wash your own clothes,” Archbishop Tobin recalled telling him. “She’s had it up to here with the sort of monarchic church!”The future pope laughed, and the remarks apparently