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Recent commentaries in major national newspapers contend that the murder of Dr. George Tiller cannot be blamed on virulent anti-abortion rhetoric. Given the studied connection between word and deed, Anne Eggebroten disagrees.
A Brazilian archbishop’s decision to excommunicate the mother of a 9-year-old rape victim who had an abortion, as well as the girl’s doctor, outrages Anne Eggebroten. She says Catholic leaders need to revisit their own religious teachings.
Andrea Yates is on trial again for murdering her five children in 2001. Anne Eggebroten says mother-murder is a common phenomenon with predictable causes. One woman’s escape offers guidance on prevention.
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Women are not among the cardinals, priests and choristers handling the papal transition. But Anne Eggebroten says the patriarchal show of force going on in Rome cannot stop the concerted upward push by women into Church hierarchy.
Many religious women and men herald a new, non-sexist translation of a popular version of the Bible, yet a strong-willed conservative critic cries foul.
The author argues that the Christian fundamentalist beliefs that enshrine male control over women played a role in the destruction of the Yates family and that Christian fundamentalist religions should preach a gospel of equality between the sexes.