Colleen Carroll Campbell

Colleen Carroll Campbell is an author, a print and broadcast journalist, and a former presidential speechwriter.

Faith of the Feminine

By Colleen Carroll Campbell March 7, 2008

A Pew Forum poll released last week reveals that Americans are switching religious affiliations at a dizzying rate, and the religious category flush with the most converts is “unaffiliated.” The ...

Politics & Policy

Hard to Make a Stand

By Colleen Carroll Campbell April 30, 2007

When St. Louis Archbishop Raymond Burke resigned from the foundation board of the city’s Catholic children’s hospital last week, his decision ignited intense outrage in the blogosphere and his own ...

Politics & Policy

A Line in the Sand

By Colleen Carroll Campbell November 3, 2006

The media campaign to promote Missouri’s Amendment 2 — which would make the cloning and killing of human embryos for research a constitutional right — has drawn national headlines in ...

Politics & Policy

The Activist Trap

By Colleen Carroll Campbell August 31, 2006

On the Right, groups such as as Priests for Life and Catholic Answers are distributing voter’s guides that urge Catholics to support candidates who stand with the Church in its ...

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Be Not Afraid

By Colleen Carroll Campbell May 30, 2006

When the students, faculty, and staff of the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minn., elected Ben Kessler as “Tommie of the Year” and student speaker for this year’s ...

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The Indignity of Notre Dame

By Colleen Carroll Campbell April 14, 2006

When the Rev. John Jenkins announced last week that he would allow the continued sponsorship and performance of The Vagina Monologues at the University Notre Dame, he contradicted his earlier ...

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“Let Me Go”

By Colleen Carroll Campbell March 22, 2006

Let Me Go, the new book co-written by Pope John Paul II’s personal physician, reveals few details about the pope’s death that were not already divulged in the official Vatican ...

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Chilling Protocol

By Colleen Carroll Campbell March 13, 2006

When little Chanou was born in 2000 with a rare and painful illness that leads to abnormal bone development, doctors gave the Dutch infant less than three years to live. ...

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The Great Exit

By Colleen Carroll Campbell December 29, 2005

When the Religion Newswriters Association asked its members to identify the top religious story of 2005, the reporters had no shortage of options. There was the devastating series of natural ...

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“Supreme Scientist” Superstar

By Colleen Carroll Campbell December 2, 2005

Before confessing last week to ethical lapses in his research, South Korean stem-cell pioneer Dr. Hwang Woo Suk had enjoyed god-like status in his native land. The veterinarian and Seoul National ...