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Catholic nuns urge candidates to stop hateful rhetoric

COMMENTARY | Political discourse should promote the common good Editor's note: The Leadership Conference of Women Religious, an organization of Catholic women, sent the following letter to the 2016 presidential candidates, asking them to insert civi ...

25 Aug 2016 - Sister Joan Mar...
Director’s Desk: Supporting great causes, one scoop at a time

Readers have a chance to support both Street Roots and What’s the Scoop? for continuing to make a brave stand and doing what’s right for our community What do Street Roots, Planned Parenthood and What’s the Scoop? ice cream all have in common? We all supp ...

30 Jul 2015 - Israel Bayer
Integration of church and state: Mussolini and Pope Pius XI

The history of fascim in Italy has been too kind to the Roman Catholic Church and its leader at the time, Pope Pius XI. In his book “ The Pope and Mussolini,” professor David I. Kertzer provides a sharp corrective to the record in his groundbreaking, acce ...

9 Jan 2015 - George Howland Jr
Get your nerd on with Chris Hardwick! The comic talks nerd culture, the perks of celebrity and his love of Portland

Chris Hardwick is the quintessential nerd — with benefits. He is also a stand-up comedian, actor, screenwriter, musician, podcaster, television host and voice actor. Though he lives in Los Angeles now, he claims roots in Louisville, Ky. Kids of the ' ...

19 Jun 2014 - Suzanne Zalokar
Jackie Yerby rallies local Catholics for marriage equality, despite opposition from the Archdiocese

Jackie Yerby and community advocates, along with a group of Catholic Oregonians, are leading a campaign to support marriage equality in Oregon. The group titled Catholic Oregonians for Marriage Equality was developed in response to Portland Archbishop Ale ...

26 Mar 2014 - Israel Bayer
Divine calling

The documentary ‘Band of Sisters’ explores U.S. Catholic nuns’ passion for social justice Sister Lillian Murphy may be a nun, but that doesn’t mean she spends her days dressed in a habit. True, after she became a Catholic nun in 1959 she donned the distin ...

12 Aug 2013 - Rosette Royale
Editorial: Women religious stand tall with community’s support

Editorial: Women religious stand tall with community’s support Since the early 19th century in the American West it was nuns, not the bishops that laid the foundation for many of the institutions that make up the world we live in. Built on the backs of th ...

21 Aug 2012 - Street Roots
What’s at stake in the Vatican’s crackdown of nation’s leadership for women

What’s at stake in the Vatican’s crackdown of nation’s leadership for women [caption id="attachment_7423" align="alignnone" width="500"] Sister Pat Farrell (L), president of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR) ...

21 Aug 2012 - Street Roots
Breaking: Catholic fund drops Street Roots over Planned Parenthood listing

Breaking: Catholic fund drops Street Roots over Planned Parenthood listing Catholic fund drops Street Roots over Planned Parenthood Listing: An in-depth report looks at how politics and religion mix in the world of charitable giving After five years of fi ...

16 Sep 2010 - Street Roots