The state Board of Education is to vote today on a proposed standard which would require that the "weaknesses" as well as strengths in the theory of evolution be taught in high school biology classes. Here's a story from Terry...
A sampling of comments from our readers: "As a Catholic I am proud that priest stood up and told his parishioners the truth. As Catholics we should NEVER vote for someone who is against life. Every single Bishop in the...
Manya Brachear of the Chicago Tribune visited Barack Obama's old church this weekend. The three most frequently heard greetings, she said, were: "Good morning," "God bless," and "Have you voted?" Read her dispatch here....
Here's proof that with mere hours to go in the presidential election campaign, reporters haven't quite run out of religion angles to write about: Daniel Burke of Religion News Service explores the question of how American Buddhists are likely to...
Eighty-four percent of white Americans said they'd be willing to vote for a minority candidate for president, according to a study by Baylor University's Institute for Studies of Religion. The percentage who would support a minority candidate is smaller --...
The Washington Post has a story saying this year's Democratic outreach to Catholics tries to dance around the church's adamant opposition to abortion (and Barack Obama's adamant support of a woman's right to choose) by emphasizing other issues. "Rather than...
A sampling of comments from our readers: "As a Christian I have never been more proud of the Catholic Church. My hats off to the Bishops! Finally, a clear message against killing babies." -- "Mike," on a letter from the...
A sampling of comments from our readers: "It's very disheartening that any Catholic, 40 years after 'Humanae Vitae,' could try to equivocate on the issue of abortion. Much more so that such a learned man as a law school dean...
A sampling of comments from our readers: "Ms. Silverman should refrain from religious identification and affiliation. She is not the spokesperson for the Jewish population. The Jews I know in Florida, and I am one of them, will not...
A sampling of comments from our readers: "I am a conservative Christian, and I will not vote for McCain because of Palin's presence on the ticket. I do not want a Pentecostal anywhere near the reins of power." --...
In yesterday's New York Times, David D. Kirkpatrick looked at how abortion is again dividing Catholic voters -- and at how Catholics could decide the presidential election. Kirkpatrick writes: Once a reliable Democratic voting bloc, Catholics have emerged as a...
Gene Robinson, the celebrated (or, depending on your point of view, notorious) gay Episcopal bishop of New Hampshire, is urging fellow members of the LGBT -- lesibain, gay, bisexual and transgender -- community to vote for Barack Obama. "I know,...
"We aren't going to win 100 percent of the evangelical vote, we might not even win 50 percent, but we might at least take some of the sharp edges off the divide that's existed in our politics." -- Barack Obama...
Nancy Frazier O'Brien of Catholic News Service reports that even though Catholics now make up an astounding 23.9 percent of the U.S. population, attempts by the two parties to woo the so-called Catholic vote may be futile. She quotes a...
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