Several months ago, before we reached our current apex of political unrest, Fr. Paul Keller posted a two-part column entitled “Can a Catholic vote for a Democrat?” While countless Catholics have doubtlessly been answering “yes” to this question for ages, Fr. Keller uses a relatively fresh series of arguments to arrive at that same conclusion. To begin, Fr. Keller mentions the recently published USCCB document intended to assist Catholic voters. He goes out of his way to highl

In a recent op-ed piece titled “The Church needs a contraception reality check,” Linda Haller criticizes the Diocese of Pittsburgh for submitting a SCOTUS brief that claims faith-based agencies (such as the Little Sisters of the Poor) are “more likely to hire people who agree with the church teaching on contraception.” She scoffs at this, reminding us that “up to 90 percent of even regularly practicing Catholics politely ignore this teaching.” So statistically speaking, the o