When the birth-control controversy began a few weeks ago, there were some legitimate worries about federal policy infringing on freedom of religion. Some of the most eloquent commentators voicing those concerns were Catholics on the left: Chris...

Some Republicans are using the bishops’ stupidity to hurt the supposed “moderate” candidate Mitt Romney, giving a temporary leg up to the faux naïf Rick Santorum; others are attacking Barack Obama as an “enemy of religion.” Pusillanimous Catholics—Mark...

And as a matter of policy, it turns out to be the perfect characterization. Obama unites people; he is a healer. I would even go so far to suggest that he might be a miracle worker. George Weigel, the conservative biographer of Pope John Paul II, and...

But he finally reached a point, Sullivan added, where he’s made the choice to take on those within the Catholic Church for whom “no issue seems to be more important than controlling the sex lives of other people.” The Washington Post‘s E.J. Dionne,...

But I think you are suggesting, tell me if I'm wrong, that the administration for political reasons is going to muck up the waters in that way. After Scarborough and Dionne pointed out that a lot of the Catholic institutions thought the President's...

Analysts Howard Fineman and Steve Schmidt will weigh in, and recap the latest poll numbers. Who would Obama prefer to run against: Mitt Romney or Rick Santorum? We’re asking MSNBC Political Analysts and authors of Game Change , Mark Halperin and John...