Frances Kissling

Frances Kissling is president of the Center for Health, Ethics and Social Policy and former president of Catholics for Choice.

The False Compassion of Pope Francis

The False Compassion of Pope Francis The False Compassion of Pope Francis

No, women who get abortions aren’t automatically excommunicated from the Catholic Church. But you wouldn’t know that from the pope.

Sep 21, 2015 / Frances Kissling

Can Pope Francis Change the Church?

Can Pope Francis Change the Church? Can Pope Francis Change the Church?

He’s saying the right things. Will the US Conference of Catholic Bishops listen?

Sep 25, 2013 / Editorial / Frances Kissling

A New Pope—African, Latin American, Woman, Nice Guy—Will Change Nothing

A New Pope—African, Latin American, Woman, Nice Guy—Will Change Nothing A New Pope—African, Latin American, Woman, Nice Guy—Will Change Nothing

If the Catholic Church is to change, the first thing that needs to happen is no pope, and certainly not an infallible one.

Feb 19, 2013 / Frances Kissling

Forty Years Later, We’re Still Fighting ‘Eisenstadt v. Baird’

Forty Years Later, We’re Still Fighting ‘Eisenstadt v. Baird’ Forty Years Later, We’re Still Fighting ‘Eisenstadt v. Baird’

Rush Limbaugh's anti-contraception tirade targeted a single woman. Would he have had done the same if Sandra Fluke had been married?

Mar 20, 2012 / Jonathan D. Moreno and Frances Kissling

Long Roe to Hoe Long Roe to Hoe

Improving the sorry state of US reproductive health policy requires serious shifts within the women's movement and the abortion rights movement.

Jan 17, 2008 / Editorial / Frances Kissling and Kate Michelman

Looking for Salvation in All the Wrong Places Looking for Salvation in All the Wrong Places

Progressive religious leaders should be sensitive to the danger that unexamined God-based public policy presents, whether it comes from the right or the left.

Apr 6, 2006 / Feature / Frances Kissling

Letters Letters

'VULGARLY OUT OF PLACE' New York City

Dec 16, 2004 / Letters / Patricia J. Williams, Our Readers, and Frances Kissling

Sex & the Clergy Sex & the Clergy

Exit poll results indicating that 22 percent of voters ranked moral values as the most important factor in their support for a presidential candidate have occupied more than thei...

Nov 24, 2004 / Editorial / Frances Kissling

Bully in the Pulpit? Bully in the Pulpit?

Bully in the Pulpit? The following is a forum on Ellen Willis's "Freedom From Religion," which appeared in the February 19 issue.       --The ...

Feb 23, 2001 / Letters / Tom Hayden, Michael Eric Dyson, Ellen Willis, Michael Kazin, Frances Kissling, Arthur Hertzberg, Richard Parker, Jim Wallis, and Rosalind Pollack Petchesky

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