Money, not religion, is the motivating issue of the Catholic right, according to Mary Jo McConahay's new book. Former NCR editor Tom Roberts' review says the book does U.S. Catholicism a great service.
The U.S. Supreme Court has been affected by a "right-wing" Catholic culture that helps to explain its conservative shift in recent years, according to the…
Author chronicles how the Church has become politically powerful in recent decades but fails to speak to bishops or lay Catholics about their intentions