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.

Frances Kissling

Can Pope Francis Change the Church?

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

Frances Kissling

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.

Frances Kissling

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?

Jonathan D. Moreno and Frances Kissling

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.

Frances Kissling and Kate Michelman

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.

Frances Kissling

Letters

‘VULGARLY OUT OF PLACE’

New York City

Patricia J. Williams, Our Readers and Frances Kissling

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 their fair share of m

Frances Kissling

Bully in the Pulpit?

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