“Catholic Church” on The Daily Caller

Bridgeport, Conn. Bishop William E. Lori was installed as the new archbishop of Baltimore, Md. on Wednesday, and he entered the cradle of American Catholicism with a series of bangs aimed at the Obama administration. (more)

Whenever I hear a lecture from The Washington Post about the importance of free debate, I think about Dawn Eden. Eden is a friend and a Catholic author who has just published an important new book, “My Peace I Give You: Healing the Wounds of Sexual Abuse with the Help of the Saints.” She recently held two book signings in Washington, D.C. — book signings that were not covered by The Washington Post. (more)

President Obama has seen his standing among Catholic voters, a crucial segment of the electorate, slip in recent weeks, and a looming confrontation with Catholic activists could make it worse. (more)

On Wednesday’s “The O’Reilly Factor” on the Fox News Channel, Cardinal Timothy Dolan, the Archbishop of New York and a man considered the post powerful cleric of the Roman Catholic Church in the United States, leveled the charge that the Obama administration and its supporters are attempting to divide the Catholic Church. (more)

The sisters of a Chicago-area convent and area residents are keeping the welcome wagon in the garage — and are instead protesting St. Charles Borromeo Convent’s new neighbor: a multimillion dollar strip club. (more)

Florida Republican Sen. Marco Rubio said Wednesday that he is “deeply concerned” that the leadership of the Catholic Church has “negotiated themselves a space of operation” in Cuba “in exchange for looking the other way,” and expressed concern that Pope Benedict XVI’s upcoming trip to the island may “reinforce that arrangement.” (more)

Mark Andersen stood in front of the congregation and wept. (more)

I got played. Badly. (more)

White House spokesman Jay Carney on Thursday dismissed calls for a reconsideration of President Barack Obama’s controversial regulation of the health care policies offered by religious organizations, one day after Catholic leaders repeated their offer to hash out an agreement. (more)

Conservative Catholic groups are warning Democrats that there may be political ramifications for backing the White House’s controversial contraception mandate. (more)

When you’re in the middle of a war, you don’t hand your enemy an atomic bomb. (more)

The Democrats’ election-year demand for regulation of religious groups’ activities leaves believers no practical option but to launch a defensive political campaign against President Barack Obama, Arizona Republican Rep. Trent Franks told The Daily Caller. (more)

At least seven religious plaintiffs have filed lawsuits against the Obama administration over the president’s contraception mandate for health care coverage. That requirement forces most health insurance plans to offer free preventative services for women. (more)

Rick Santorum’s presidential campaign is arguing that reporters should ask rival Mitt Romney about his Mormon faith if they continue to scrutinize the former Pennsylvania senator’s Catholicism. (more)

MSNBC host Chris Matthews said Monday at Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C., “if you’re really anti-gay you become a Catholic now.” (more)

A speech former Senator Rick Santorum delivered at a Catholic college in 2008 began burning up the left-wing blogosphere Friday afternoon. At Ave Maria University in Naples, Florida, Santorum argued that Satan was using the national debate over abortion as a tool to destroy the institutions of American culture — including universities, the government, popular culture, and mainline Protestant churches. (more)

There are times when a single issue captures the troubles of an age. Now in its fourth week, the Obamacare contraceptive battle is bringing to the fore not only the conflict between government-run health care and religious liberty but, far more sweepingly, between our ever more socialized world and basic notions of liberty and responsibility. (more)

President Barack Obama and his deputies are using the demeaning language of disease and green-eyeshade accounting to establish free birth control as a government-backed right, and also to downgrade the value of human lives, say social conservatives. (more)

According to Pat Buchanan, the Obama administration’s decision to revise its mandate that religious institutions must offer “access” to conception, despite the mandate violating Church doctrine, still falls short. (more)

On Sunday, the White House tried to suppress the growing constitutional controversy created by its unprecedented demand that U.S. religious organizations fund government priorities they abhor. (more)