Articles — The Revealer

The Patient Body: Your Ethical and Religious Directives

February 11, 2014

“The Patient Body” is a monthly column by Ann Neumann about issues at the intersection of religion and medicine.

The Danger of Winning

March 25, 2013

By Ann Neumann Is a revisionist history of abortion rights being used--by journalists, supporters, and lawyers--to curtail Supreme Court...

Schradle's Links

January 28, 2013

Nathan Schradle Well, we are now TEN YEARS OLD.

Legislating Holy Scripture in Ohio

May 24, 2012

Ashley Baxstrom: Ohio just keeps embarrassing the buckeye out of me (and that’s only...

Searching Herman Cain's Soul. In Iowa.

November 16, 2011

By Andy Kopsa Standing before a crowd of reporters at the Friar’s Club in New York, Sharon Bialek told her story. ...

Service Announcement for Journos

August 16, 2011

A friendly reminder to all of us at the start of this new election cycle: "Pro-life" means much, much...

Bachmann's "Evangelical Feminism"

June 30, 2011

Kathryn Montalbano: What is meant by "feminist"--the inherently problematic, unfixed term that often causes pangs of discomfort when mustered...

Exporting the "Pro-Life" Movement to Russia

June 10, 2011

Last month the Russian Orthodox Church issued a statement that supported Moscow's squashing of the gay pride parade...

Jesus, Pop Idol: Capturing the Tween Market

April 12, 2011

by Kristina Loew There was a time when popular culture was a bastion of rebellion, a place where America’s youth...

April 4, 2011

States of Devotion, a publication of NYU's Hemispheric Institute edited by Ann Pellegrini, has a new "dossier" of articles...

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As Goes Iowa:The Family Leader, Religious Politics and 2012

March 8, 2011

by Andy Kopsa America’s culture wars are at full throttle: defunding Planned Parenthood, chipping away at a woman’s right to...

Teetotal, Mean-Spirited, Right-Wing, Narrow-Minded, Conservative Christian Bigot, RIP

March 5, 2011

From Obit Mag's recent send-off to Jane Russell who died last week, "A Figure of Contradiction": Born Ernestine Jane Geraldine...

Assessing the Culture Warriors

February 17, 2011

From Tim Muldoon's article at WaPo's On Faith blog, "Faltering and Leading: The Conservative Moment," in which Muldoon...

Mainstreaming Conservatism

February 16, 2011

Kristina Loew: From movies to music, conservative voices have cornered the tween scene, that 12 - 13 year old...

The New Slavery

January 25, 2011

It may be altogether historically inaccurate, but the equation of abortion to slavery is a compelling argument for abortion...

38 Years

January 22, 2011

My naive questions on this anniversary of Roe v. Wade are: Why, when organized anti-abortion groups are predominantly evangelical/fundamentalist/orthodox...

What's In a Title?

January 21, 2011

Andy Kopsa writes about the awkward title of a fantastic and haunting article by Sarah Blustain at Mother...

Frances Kissling on On Being

January 19, 2011

Frances Kissling, a visiting scholar at University of Pennsylvania Center for Bioethics and former president of Catholics...

Our Sense of Knowing Better

January 14, 2011

From Genevieve Yue's "That Old Time Religion" at Reverse Shot: In 1799, Étienne-Gaspard Robertson premiered the phantasmagoria, a moving...

Preparing to Fight the Anti-Homosexuality Bill

January 12, 2011

Truth Wins Out takes the time to note contact information for senators and representatives as well as Ugandan...

Ross Wants Your Snowflakes

January 3, 2011

Mary Valle: My favorite cheek-shaved, neck-bearded Catholic convert, Ross Douthat, weighs in today (sort of? His columns...

An Authentically Catholic Hospital

December 21, 2010

In November of 2009 Sister Margaret McBride was fired and excommunicated by Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted. As a...

Small-r Rebellion

December 11, 2010

Gary Younge, a feature writer for the Guardian, has written that the Tea Party is "not a new...

Pitts Gets Another Crack at Health Care