The weather was still chilly on the May morning when I found myself pacing in a northern-Wisconsin parking lot, trying…
Author Colleen Carroll Campbell
It’s busy season for debates over the role of women in Christianity. First, there was the so-called “war on nuns,”…
Like most women in my post-feminist generation, I grew up knowing exactly what I did not want when it came…
This month is a momentous one for saints in the Catholic Church. After naming two new doctors of the church…
Thanks to President Barack Obama’s contraceptive mandate and Catholic concerns about its impact on religious liberty, Catholic women have emerged…
With fewer than three-dozen reckless words uttered in a local television interview, U.S. Rep. Todd Akin managed to do what…
Even before Gov. Mitt Romney made his vice presidential selection last week, Catholic voters were at the center of this…
Remember “live and let live” — or, as the gay-rights variation goes, “live and let love?” Remember that heady time…
Last month, President Barack Obama declared that “the private sector is doing fine.” Last week, he claimed that his main…
I felt a pang of guilt as soon as I pulled it off the shelf, but I knew I had…