A Gallup poll of Muslims living in the United States finds "they are far more likely than people in Muslim countries to see themselves as thriving," reports Laurie Goodstein of The New York Times. "And yet," she writes, "within the...
It's no secret to any American Catholic that an increasing number of priests assigned to U.S. parishes are coming from overseas -- a function of the shortage of priests being trained in American seminaries. In this story, Laurie Goldstein of...
Kevin Eckstrom of Religion News Service reports that the incoming 111th Congress is a mirror (more or less) of the U.S. population in terms of religious preferences. Congress has a greater percentage of Jews, Catholics and Mormons than does the...
A bad day on the "winning hearts and minds" front. The New York Times has the story, dateline Baghdad....
For a comprehensive (if not entirely objective) review of the pope's visit, there is this site from the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. It includes videos, the calendar of his events, news stories, and, perhaps most useful, the texts of...
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