The Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights is a Catholic civil rights advocacy group that responds to religious discrimination issues concerning Catholics and other Americans. It is based in New York but has chapters throughout the United States. Bill Donohue is its president.

Read a Nov. 5, 2012, article from the National Catholic Reporter about the IRS not investigating politicking from churches.

PollingReport.com offers a collection of polls on Americans’ opinions on politics and religion.

The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops supports the government’s faith-based initiatives. Read a 2005 statement posted on the website.

Read a Beliefnet.com “blogalogue” between the atheist author and activist Sam Harris and Andrew Sullivan, the political conservative and Catholic convert, who defends the idea of religious belief.

The Rev. Robert E. Shore-Goss is a former Jesuit priest who now is senior pastor of the Metropolitan Community Church in the Valley in North Hollywood, Calif. He has been an activist in gay rights organizations, and among the books he has co-edited are Take Back the Word: A Queer Reading of the Bible and Gay Catholic Priests and […]

Robert Goodkind is a psychologist in private practice in Albuquerque, N.M. He also worked at the Paraclete center treating abusive priests in the 1980s and 1990s and is conversant with the pathology of the clergy abuser. 505-256-1021

Sarah Brennan is clinical director of the Samaritan Counseling Center in Albuquerque and an expert on sexual abuse and clergy perpetrators. During the course of a decade, Brennan treated hundreds of priests at a center for clergy sex offenders in Jemez Springs, N.M., operated by a religious order, the Servants of the Paraclete. The center closed […]

The Rev. Howard Bleichner is assistant spiritual director at St. Paul Seminary in Pittsburgh. Bleichner wrote View From the Altar: Reflections on the Rapidly Changing Catholic Priesthood. He is a Sulpician priest with more than 40 years’ experience in seminary formation. He formerly was rector of the theological college at the Catholic University of America. He blames […]