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Wade decision making abortion legal in the United States, the anti-abortion movement in the United States consisted of elite lawyers, politicians, and doctors, almost all of whom were Catholic. [37] The only coordinated opposition to abortion during the early 1970s came from the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops and the Family Life ...
Catholic Action was the name of many groups of lay Catholics attempting to encourage Catholic influence on political society. Many Catholic movements were born in 19th-century Austria, such as the Progressive Catholic movement promoted by thinkers such as Wilfried Daim and Ernst Karl Winter. Once strongly opposed by the Church because of its ...
This emergent Catholic right’s elevated status under President Donald Trump, despite its less decisive appeal among Catholics as a whole, raises the potential for drastic change to policies ...
American anti-Catholicism originally derived from the theological heritage of the Protestant Reformation and the European wars of religion (16th–18th century). Because the Reformation was based on an effort to correct what was perceived as the errors and excesses of the Catholic Church, its proponents formed strong positions against the Roman clerical hierarchy in general and the Papacy in ...
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) is the United States largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy group, originally established to promote a positive image of Islam and Muslims in America. CAIR portrays itself as the voice of mainstream, moderate Islam on Capitol Hill and in political arenas throughout the United States.
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The relationship between Christianity and politics is a historically complex subject and a frequent source of disagreement throughout the history of Christianity, as well as in modern politics between the Christian right and Christian left. There have been a wide variety of ways in which thinkers have conceived of this relationship, with many ...
Coulter, Michael L., Richard S. Myers, and Joseph A. Varacalli, eds. Encyclopedia of Catholic Social Thought, Social Science, and Social Policy (Scarecrow Press, 2012) Day, Maureen K. Catholic Activism Today: Individual Transformation and the Struggle for Social Justice (New York University Press, 2020) Gleason, Philip.