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Colleen Carroll Campbell: A sleeping church wakes up
Obama has rallied Catholics to a level of political attentiveness and cohesion not seen in years.
May 24, 2012 | 4:45 am
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Colleen Carroll Campbell: Catholic bishops and the nuns
The Vatican called it a reform but it's actually a "war against nuns," an unprovoked "crackdown" on the dwindling ranks of America's 55,000-plus religious sisters by a power-hungry pope and his ungrateful bishops. Rather than thanking the aging sisters for their years of service to the oppressed,…
May 10, 2012 | 12:00 am
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Colleen Carroll Campbell: The 'hatchet man' turned bridge-builder
When Charles W. "Chuck" Colson died last week, the headlines screamed about the death of President Richard Nixon's "hatchet man," who tumbled from his perch as White House chief counsel after pleading guilty to obstruction of justice in 1974. Some squeezed in fleeting references to the way Colson…
Apr 26, 2012 | 12:00 am
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Colleen Carroll Campbell: Double-standard for the demented
The late medical essayist Lewis Thomas once described Alzheimer's as "the worst of all diseases, not just for what it does to the patient, but for its devastating effects on family and friends."
Apr 12, 2012 | 12:00 am
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Colleen Carroll Campbell: Etch-a-Sketch or Mr. Flexible?
It was a fitting blunder for a candidate with authenticity issues. Asked last week on CNN if the protracted Republican primary season had eroded former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney's ability to appeal to independents in the fall, Romney advisor Eric Fehrnstrom foolishly acknowledged a universal…
Mar 29, 2012 | 12:00 am
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Colleen Carroll Campbell: What if newborns had no rights?
It's a provocative question abortion opponents have been asking for years: If it is ethical to kill an unwanted child before birth, why not kill her afterward?
Mar 15, 2012 | 12:45 am
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Colleen Carroll Campbell: What women want
In honor of Women's History Month, I'd like to make a request of America's political and media elites on behalf of America's women: Stop lumping us together.
Mar 01, 2012 | 12:00 am
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Colleen Carroll Campbell: Hollow compromise on contraception mandate
Give Barack Obama credit: The man has chutzpah. How else do you describe a president who uses his executive authority to unilaterally manufacture a government mandate for contraception coverage — a mandate with no conscience protection for the vast majority of religious institutions to which it a…
Feb 16, 2012 | 12:00 am
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Colleen Carroll Campbell: The perils of growing up a girl
She arrived pink and plump, sporting a full head of cotton-soft brown hair and that intoxicatingly sweet scent that only newborns have. All gurgles, whimpers and tiny yawns, her delicate fingers gripped mine as I thought of all the things I wanted to give this brand-new baby girl: love and securi…
Feb 02, 2012 | 12:00 am
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Colleen Carroll Campbell: Iowa's wild ride
The surprising results of Tuesday's Iowa caucuses have reinforced the conventional wisdom about this season's Republican primary battle: Nothing about this race is conventional.
Jan 05, 2012 | 12:00 am
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Colleen Carroll Campbell: Rorschach test for our attitudes on religion
In the end, both Tebowmania and Tebowphobia say far more about us than about this rookie quarterback.
Dec 22, 2011 | 12:05 am
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Colleen Carroll Campbell: Don't call them vegetables
Four decades ago, American neurologist Fred Plum and Scottish neurosurgeon Bryan Jennett were searching for a jargon-free term to classify severely brain-damaged patients whom they considered awake but unaware. They combed through the Oxford English Dictionary and settled on "vegetative," noting …
Dec 08, 2011 | 12:00 am
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Colleen Carroll Campbell: Boycott 'Black Thursday'
Goodbye Thanksgiving. Hello Black Thursday.
Nov 24, 2011 | 12:00 am
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Colleen Carroll Campbell: Report abuse to police, not higher-ups
The story related in last week's Pennsylvania grand jury report had all the ingredients of a classic sex abuse scandal: a popular, successful authority figure suspected for years of molesting boys, a host of higher-ups unwilling to report him to police and a trail of vulnerable children left to s…
Nov 10, 2011 | 12:00 am
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Colleen Carroll Campbell: A heavy toll for today's young women
In August, when HBO released a documentary about feminist icon Gloria Steinem, critics knew in advance what to expect. HBO executive Sheila Nevins made it clear that the finished product would be not biography but hagiography, "an inspirational film about St. Gloria," as she put it in one intervi…
Oct 27, 2011 | 12:00 am
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Colleen Carroll Campbell: Obama is alienating Catholic voters
Catholics make up about a quarter of the American electorate and have backed the popular-vote winner in every presidential election since 1972. That track record continued through 2008: While weekly churchgoing Catholics slightly favored Sen. John McCain, Catholics as a whole backed President Bar…
Oct 13, 2011 | 12:00 am
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Colleen Carroll Campbell: So long, freedom of thought
The college years used to be known as a time to explore new ideas, adopt new identities and embrace — and discard — new affiliations. You could arrive on campus a political conservative and leave a liberal; enter a staunch atheist and exit a devout believer; declare yourself a biology major, then…
Sep 29, 2011 | 12:00 am
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Colleen Carroll Campbell: Depersonalizing the dementia patient
Televangelist Pat Robertson made another high-profile gaffe last week when he told a caller on "The 700 Club" show that a husband who is tempted to cheat on his Alzheimer's-stricken wife ought to leave her for someone new.
Sep 22, 2011 | 12:00 am
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Colleen Carroll Campbell: Too much screen time
So plopping your preschooler in front of the television to gawk at "SpongeBob SquarePants" — a frenetic cartoon featuring scene changes every 11 seconds — impairs his attention span. Who could have guessed?
Sep 15, 2011 | 12:00 am
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Colleen Carroll Campbell: A passive-aggressive president
Poor President Obama. All he wanted to do was deliver a jobs speech to Congress. How were he and his staff supposed to know that their chosen time and date happened to be exactly the same as that of a long-planned Republican presidential debate, where his aspiring rivals planned to highlight his …
Sep 08, 2011 | 12:00 am
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Colleen Carroll Campbell:
Ten years ago this month, after a band of radical Islamists crashed airplanes into the Twin Towers, the Pentagon and a Pennsylvania field, religion surged to the forefront of our national conversation. The twisted, hateful beliefs of the terrorists came into sharp focus, of course. But so did the…
Sep 01, 2011 | 12:00 am
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Colleen Carroll Campbell: A new kind of rebel
Another World Youth Day has come and gone, and with it, all the usual speculation about what it means. Ever since the late Pope John Paul II launched the international faith festival in 1984 by welcoming 300,000 young Catholics to Rome, the chattering classes have struggled to account for its app…
Aug 25, 2011 | 12:00 am
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Colleen Carroll Campbell: The power of a father's presence
For fatherhood in America, these are the best of times and the worst of times. So says a new Pew Research Center report on fathering trends.
Aug 11, 2011 | 12:00 am
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Colleen Carroll Campbell: The real population bomb
In 1968, Stanford biologist Paul R. Erlich opened his bestselling book, "The Population Bomb," with this declaration: "The battle to feed all of humanity is over. In the 1970s and 1980s hundreds of millions of people will starve to death in spite of any crash programs embarked upon now. At this l…
Aug 04, 2011 | 12:00 am
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Colleen Carroll Campbell: Terri's fight continues
The death of Terri Schindler Schiavo in 2005 is a distant memory for most Americans. But for the family that spent seven years fighting Terri's estranged husband and the court system to stop the starvation of their daughter and sister, recollections of the 13 days Terri lingered without food or w…
Jul 28, 2011 | 12:00 am
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