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Obama has also benefitted from the resurgence of progressive Catholics. The Catholic Left used to be a vigorous social and political presence, from the work of Dorothy Day to the activism of the Berrigan brothers to disarmament advocates in the 1980s. But by the time Kerry ran in 2004, there were very few Catholic voices echoing his insistence that church teaching addressed more than just abortion or pushing back against suggestions that he and other pro-choice Catholics should be denied communion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Catholics Are Judging Obama and the Democrats | 10/18/2008 | See Source »

...Rome pushed back, and the ensuing struggle defined a movement, whose icons included peace activist Fr. Daniel Berrigan, feminist Sister Joan Chittister, and sociologist/author Fr. Andrew Greeley. Its perspectives were covered in The National Catholic Reporter, Commonweal and America. Martin Sheen held down Hollywood, and the movement even boasted its own cheesy singing act: the St. Louis Jesuits. The reformers' premier membership organization was Call to Action, but their influence was felt at the highest reaches of the American Church, as sympathetic American bishops passed left-leaning statements on nuclear weapons and economic justice. Remarks Tilley, "For a couple...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is Liberal Catholicism Dead? | 5/3/2008 | See Source »

...According to McMillian, the first issue of “The Sixties” may cover the Whitney Museum’s Summer of Love exhibit, the recent film “Across the Universe,” and interviews with priest and anti-war demonstrator Daniel Berrigan. Professor of Divinity Harvey Cox, now in his late 1970s, plans to contribute a book review with a perspective he describes as both “scholarly and personal.” Cox expressed similarities between protests against the Iraq war to the protest movements of the 1960s. “It?...

Author: By Vidya B. Viswanathan, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Journal Studies the 1960s | 9/25/2007 | See Source »

...religious left may now see an opportunity to flex its muscles in the 2008 presidential campaign, but the religious left is hardly a new phenomenon. Most Americans are probably familiar with the following names: Daniel and Philip Berrigan, Robert Drinan, William Sloane Coffin, Paul Moore, Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton. Evan Edwards, New York City...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 3/29/2007 | See Source »

...religious left may now see an opportunity to flex its muscles in the 2008 presidential campaign, but the religious left is hardly a new phenomenon. Most Americans are probably familiar with the following names: Daniel and Philip Berrigan, Robert Drinan, William Sloane Coffin, Paul Moore, Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton. Evan Edwards, NEW YORK CITY...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 3/28/2007 | See Source »

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