Apparently President Obama will worship at the nondenominational chapel at Camp David, and the Navy chaplain assigned there is a graduate of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary - and a relative of Johnny Cash. Click here for Christianity Today's report....
Thomas Lynch is a poet, essayist and funeral home director, and he invokes President Obama and the Apostle Paul in an essay written for The Christian Century....
The president of the Interfaith Alliance says that if we are going to have a National Day of Prayer, President Obama issued the right kind of proclamation for it. Here's a press release:...
Catholic commentator Thomas J. Reese, S.J., is Senior Fellow at Woodstock Theological Center at Georgetown University and writes a regular column at Georgetown/On Faith. He thinks that U.S. bishops should take their cue from the Vatican, not from Republican...
Fox & Friends is on fire this morning stoking the controversy over President Obama not publicly observing the National Day of Prayer as predecessor George W. Bush did. Lots of graphics about how many churches are near the White House....
"While I have some deep cautions and deep concerns, if I'm at the table I will at least have a voice on the inside. If I feel I am just a token conservative, then I will resign immediately and...
But there's a real breakdown among Catholics who go to church a lot, and those who don't. Details here....
Inside Higher Ed has an update on the continuing furor over among Catholics regarding Notre Dame's decision to have President Obama as graduation day speaker and honorary degree recipient. Mary Ann Glendon, former U.S. ambassador to the Vatican, has...
Catholic News Service has a story in which Bishop John M. D'Arcy of Fort Wayne/South Bend, Indiana, describes what he sees as the fallout of Notre Dame's decision to have President Obama as a graduation day speaker and honorary...
A sampling of comments from our readers: "All of they gay couples I know that would like to be married show more love towards each other and are more faithful to each other than some of the so-called 'Christians' I...
Dan Gilgoff of U.S. News & World Report has taken a look at President Barack Obama's just-released 2008 tax returns. He found that the president and Michelle Obama gave $172,050 to charity -- about 6.5 percent of their adjusted gross...
A sampling of comments from our readers: "I hope I speak for a majority of alumni (Class of '77) when I proclaim pride in my Notre Dame for extending the invitation to President Obama. The university president, the Rev. John...
Here's a press release with details:...
Sean Michael Winters, writing in National Catholic Reporter, says the brouhaha over whether President Barack Obama should have been invited to deliver the commencement address at the University of Notre Dame is evidence of deeper troubles between the president and...
The governor of New York didn't want her in the U.S. Senate, and, now, it appears, the pope doesn't want her as U.S. ambassador. The BBC, citing "reliable sources in Rome," reports that the Vatican has rejected Caroline Kennedy and...
Al Mohler, president of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, has written an essay defending some of President Obama's recent remarks on Islam - but criticizing others....
In what is believed to be a presidential first, Barack Obama will host a Seder, the traditional Passover meal, in the White House tonight. Here's a story from The Jerusalem Post. In a letter wishing Americans who celebrate Passover...
Tony Dungy wasn't named to President Barack Obama's advisory council on faith-based groups, despite reports last week that he'd been invited. Here's the story from Politico. The respected former pro football coach, a devout Christian, said he wasn't able to...
A sampling of comments from our readers: "I as a Catholic also disapprove of the invitation of President Obama to speak at the commencement .I find it disturbing that a Catholic university would allow a person with beliefs contrary to...
Wallis, whose Sojourners organization plans to put on a Justice Revival in Dallas later this year, is a Washington, D.C.-based evangelical whose politics tend to be moderate to liberal, but who sometimes finds common ground conservative evangelicals. Wallis also...
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