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A new pope and the remodeling of the world's moral map
We Americans have long told ourselves that we are a God-favored people, a churchgoing, moral people. But last week when the old cardinals of Roman Catholicism looked for the future of their church, they looked south. And what we Americans heard, as if for...
Tags: Religion and Belief, Entertainment, Paris (France), Parties and Movements, Roger M. Mahony
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Tying up the loose ends of 'the Troubles'
The recent death of an Irish terrorist has raised the possibility of a resolution of a tangled legal controversy pitting the U.S. Department of Justice against a college that sponsored a research project about the "Troubles" in Northern Ireland. But it...
Tags: United Kingdom, Republic of Ireland, William Faulkner, Religion and Belief, Judges
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Roe vs. Wade at 40: Pew poll finds abortion not a key issue
Abortion rights, once a key political wedge issue dividing society, are now so accepted that only 1 in 5 people call it critical and a majority of those younger than 30 don’t know that Roe vs. Wade was the Supreme Court case that helped make...
Tags: James Holmes, Politics, Social Issues, Elections, Abortion
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Catholics see big gains in Congress: What does it mean?
Most postmortems of the 2012 elections have focused on its implications for the future of the Republican Party, the rise of the Latino vote or the continued polarization of the country by party and region. But here’s a takeaway you probably haven&...
Tags: Judaism, Religion and Belief, Christianity, Republican Party, Roman Catholicism
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Kuang-hsun Ting dies at 97; bishop led Protestant church in China
Bishop Kuang-hsun Ting, who was one of the most influential Christian figures in China as the longtime leader of the country's government-sanctioned Protestant church, has died. He was 97. Ting died Nov. 22 at his home in Nanjing, according to...
Tags: Religion and Belief, Religious Education, Parties and Movements, St. John's University, Purdue University
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Protestants lose majority in U.S. for first time; unaffiliated up
L.A. NOWProtestants, who have played a central role in the nation’s founding and development, no longer make up a majority of Americans for the first time in history, according to a new study released Tuesday.... -
Protestants lose their majority status in religion survey
L.A. NOWProtestants, whose ideals of hard work, individualism and democratic governance have fundamentally shaped the national character, no longer make up a majority of Americans for the first time in history, according to a new study released Tuesday.... -
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L.A. NOWFor the first time, Protestants no longer make up a majority of Americans, according to a new study out this week. The study by the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life found that Protestants now make up 48% of...... -
Protestants no longer majority in U.S., study finds
L.A. NOWA new study by the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life found that Protestants now make up 48% of Americans, compared with nearly two-thirds in the 1970s. The decline, concentrated among white members of both mainline and evangelical denominations,...... -
Gabriel Vahanian dies at 85; key figure in 'God Is Dead' movement
Despite a provocative title, Gabriel Vahanian's book "The Death of God" caused no public stir when it was published in 1961. By the middle of the decade, however, a massive upheaval was underway in American society and Vahanian, a little-known Syracuse...
Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Religion and Belief, Easter, Time (magazine), France
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Prominent Iowa evangelical leaders throw support to Rick Santorum
The Family Leader, an influential political organization among the religious voters who dominate the Iowa caucuses, is not endorsing a candidate in the presidential contest, but two prominent evangelical leaders backed Rick Santorum on Tuesday.
Bob...Tags: Religion and Belief, Michele Bachmann, Mike Huckabee, Politics, Newt Gingrich
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Rick Perry plays for Iowa's evangelical vote with new TV ad
He may be down in the polls but Rick Perry still has more money to spend than most of his rivals. On Thursday he went on the air in Iowa with a 30-second TV spot aimed directly at that state's potent bloc of evangelical Christian conservatives,...Tags: Religion and Belief, Politics, Mitt Romney, Elections, Rick Perry
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