Vatican Pitbulls Make Cardinal
How do you rise to the level of cardinal under Pope Benedict XVI? Two new American cardinals reveal a pattern.
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Atheist Nazis? The Pope’s Cheap Atonement
Adam Clayton Powell called it “cheap grace,” but we might call it “cheap atonement”: the effort by sinners to select which sins to acknowledge and repent.
Pope Benedict ended his heavily protested visit to England…
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Reasons for cautious optimism.
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Buddhist sex scandal; Susan Boyle meets the Pope; Mormon muffins.
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Postcard from the Vatican
This summer, the pope rested at Castel Gandalfo, his traditional summer retreat, urging attention to spiritual priorities, while the Vatican newspaper stayed focused firmly on earthly matters — the legal reforms recently approved in response to the current crisis in the church.
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Vatican Equates Women’s Ordination with Priest Pedophilia?
While Protestant churches like the Presbyterian Church USA have their annual gatherings in the summer, the institutional Roman Catholic Church, with no such meetings to worry about, uses the season to issue documents from on high. According to
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Vatican’s New Media Evangelizing Strategy Can’t Save it from All The Bad News
Friending the Pope.
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Is God Irrelevant?
Younger people are surrounded by vivid and accessible myths, like Avatar, that have taken the place of the Bible’s traditional role in providing the framework and role models for our lives.
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Two of the most high profile ‘new atheists’ have retained a team of lawyers.
Read MoreReligious Right Prays To Lift Curse Of Obama, Glenn Beck’s Commencement Speech, And A Cross In The Desert: The Week In Religion, Poetically
The week’s religion news.
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