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April 27, 2012: Faith Groups And Immigration
Posted Friday, April 27, 2012 in Christian Opinion, Social Issues, Top Religion News
The Supreme Court is weighing the legal challenge to Arizona’s strict immigration law, and religious groups opposed to the law are appealing to language throughout the scriptures “to take care of the stranger,” says Catholic News Service staff writer Patricia Zapor.
Paul Ryan And Tom Reese: Catholic Social Teaching And the Budget
Posted Friday, April 27, 2012 in Christian Opinion, Social Issues, Top Religion News
Is the federal government more than “one word for things we do together”? Should the government say, “You’re on your own”? A politician and a priest speak about Catholic social teaching, the budget, and the role of government in our lives.
April 20, 2012: Vatican Report on US Catholic Nuns
Posted Friday, April 20, 2012 in Christian Opinion, Social Issues, Top Religion News
“I think you could compare it to a hostile takeover,” says reporter, author, and Vatican observer David Gibson. Might the Leadership Conference of Women Religious simply disband and reorganize on its own?
April 6, 2012: Boston Boy Choir
Posted Friday, April 6, 2012 in Christian Opinion, Social Issues, Top Religion News
The Boston Archdiocesan Choir School has been described not as a school with a choir, but as a choir with a school.
April 6, 2012: Parish Nurses
Posted Friday, April 6, 2012 in Christian Opinion, Social Issues, Top Religion News
“As a parish nurse one of the greatest things we do is be present and just listen,” says Diane Tieman of Queen of the Rosary Roman Catholic Church in suburban Chicago.
March 23, 2012: Pope Visits Cuba
Posted Friday, March 23, 2012 in Christian Opinion, Social Issues, Top Religion News
Catholic Cubans have strong lay networks, says Catholic News Service staff writer Patricia Zapor, but they still need and want “a little bit more of everything—more freedom, more services, more priests.”
July 22, 2011: St. Mary’s Abbey
Posted Friday, March 16, 2012 in Christian Opinion, Social Issues, Top Religion News
“We live by the work of our hands and also have some left for helping out those who are maybe less fortunate,” says the abbess of St. Mary’s, Ireland’s only Cistercian monastery for women.
Sister Corita
Posted Wednesday, March 14, 2012 in Christian Opinion, Social Issues, Top Religion News
“She had to have been the least naïve nun that I can think of,” says Kathryn Wat, curator of an exhibition of prints by graphic artist Sister Corita Kent (1918-1986) at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, DC.
March 9, 2012: Post-Super Tuesday Analysis
Posted Friday, March 9, 2012 in Christian Opinion, Social Issues, Top Religion News
“Rick Santorum is a very particular kind of Catholic…A lot of Catholics don’t see themselves in him, and a lot of people actually don’t even know that he’s Catholic. Most people assume he’s an evangelical,” says Religion News Service editor in chief Kevin Eckstrom.
know that he’s Catholic. Most people assume he’s an evangelical.”