Catholic Bishops Throw Cold Water on Ice Bucket Challenge
Bishops in two Catholic dioceses are discouraging parishioners from participating in the popular “ice bucket…
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Read MoreThe week in religion…
Read MoreWhat happens when a breakthrough in technology leaves religious scholars without much to go on?
Read MoreA recent New Republic book review argued that science and religion cannot be reconciled. In response, biologist Arri Eisen suggests that we acknowledge the ‘pink elephant’—the thorny questions that arise when religion and science meet—and use it as an opportunity to teach and learn about the conflicting perspectives.
Read MoreRev. Richard John Neuhaus broke with the Left and helped, throughout his influential career, to broker allegiances between conservative Protestants and Roman Catholics—especially around hot-button issues like stem-cell research, abortion, and gay marriage.
Read MoreTom Daschle, a pro-choice and pro-stem cell Catholic, will serve as Obama’s Secretary of Health and Human Services. Though attacked in the past, he has a history of keeping church and state separate.
Read MoreWhile the politicization of science in the Bush era was damaging and dangerous Obama is wrong to suggest that the two can ever be fully separated—take the bail-out for instance…
Read MoreWhile this shift represents a major step away from junk science, the refusal of many denominations to take a clear position will work in favor of conservatives as federal funding guidelines are set.
Read MoreHow did a US Senator end up signing a letter condemning some of his Senate colleagues as bad Catholics?
Read MoreWhat happens when you search for contraception on the new Catholic-sanctioned search engine?
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