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Pope's Butler Vows To Help Vatican Scandal Probe

AP | NICOLE WINFIELD | Posted 05.29.2012

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VATICAN CITY — The biggest scandal to rock the Vatican in decades widened Monday with the pope's butler, arrested for allegedly having confident...

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Vatican Denies Any Cardinal A Suspect In Leaks Scandal

Reuters | Posted 05.29.2012

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VATICAN CITY, May 28 (Reuters) - The Vatican on Monday denied Italian press reports that a cardinal was among those being investigated in a scandal ...

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Vatican In Chaos After Pope's Butler Arrested For Leaks

AP | NICOLE WINFIELD | Posted 05.28.2012

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VATICAN CITY — The Vatican's investigation into the source of leaked documents has yielded its first target with the arrest of the pope's butler...

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Religion News In Brief

AP | The Associated Press | Posted 05.23.2012

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-- All 6 Boston groups lose appeal to Vatican to reopen church buildings at closed parishes BOSTON (AP) – The Vatican has rejected the appeals...

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To Christians Who Still Believe Homosexuality Is A Sin

John Shore | Posted 05.08.2012

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Christians today who take seriously the search for truth must admit that the old axiom that homosexuality is a sin has been forever reduced in status from objective truth to subjective opinion.

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Beastie Boys Singer's Buddhist Spirituality Permeated His Life And Music

HuffingtonPost.com | Jaweed Kaleem | Posted 05.04.2012

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UPDATE: News outlets have confirmed that Yauch's death was from cancer. Adam Yauch, the Beastie Boys member who went by the stage name MCA, had l...

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Retelling The American 'Kingdom of God' Story In Parables

Rachel G. Hackenberg | Posted 05.04.2012

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The American Church is called to speak through the power of stories -- mirrored in bold and creative action -- to transform our sociopolitical context for the greater inclusion of all people in the American Dream.

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WATCH: Joel Osteen's Personal Opinion On Gay People

Posted 05.02.2012

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Houston megachurch Pastor Joel Osteen has said numerous times that he believes being gay is a sin in accordance with his understanding of Christian sc...

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Old Wounds Ripped Open Along With Secret Church Files In Philadelphia Priest Trial

AP | MARYCLAIRE DALE | Posted 04.21.2012

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PHILADELPHIA -- Graphic testimony in a Philadelphia clergy-abuse trial this month has ripped open secret church files and reopened old wounds among Ca...

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Catholic Voter Video Goes Viral

Posted 04.17.2012

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A video produced by a conservative Florida-based Catholic organization that calls on the flock to vote against politicians who favor same-sex marriage...

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Finding The Mystic Life In All of Us

KidSpirit | Posted 04.14.2012

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I believe that mystical practice may involve greater religious devotion because it eliminates all the superfluous elements.

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What Counts As Legitimate Scientific Research On Prayer?

Candy Gunther Brown, Ph.D. | Posted 04.11.2012

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My basic response is this: Prayer effects should be subject to the same standards as other research. This means that standards should not be lower, nor should they be higher.

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Pope Cannot See What Is Good & Evil

Robert S. McElvaine | Posted 04.09.2012

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In today's overpopulated world, in which sexually-transmitted diseases are a scourge, few points about good and evil can be plainer than that contraception is good and opposition to contraception is evil. Yet the Pope remains willfully blind to this.

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Annie Dillard, Wheel Of Fortune And Good Friday

Lisa Hickman | Posted 04.06.2012

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Good Friday is a day that leaves us spinning with questions about the nature of God. Is God's hand in this? Or does this crazy world spin accidentally? How do we know?

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The Best Case For The Bible Not Condemning Homosexuality

John Shore | Posted 04.03.2012

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If there is no clearly stated directive in the Bible to marginalize and ostracize gay people, then Christians continuing to do so is morally indefensible, and must cease.

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Quran-Burning Pastor Sues City Over Free Speech Violation

Posted 04.03.2012

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Terry Jones, the Florida pastor who has publicly condemned Islam, filed a lawsuit Tuesday against Dearborn, Mich., claiming the city is violating his ...

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More Religious Details Emerge About Christian College, Site Of Shooting

HuffingtonPost.com | Jaweed Kaleem | Posted 04.02.2012

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Oikos University, the Oakland, Calif. school where a shooter left at least seven people dead and injured another three on Monday, was established in 2...

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10 Christian Women Every Person Should Know

Rev. Dr. Katharine Rhodes Henderson | Posted 05.29.2012

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We are legion. We are flanked by unsung heroes and buried champions. With each story we tell, we reveal the truth of our nature and render the image of God as reflected in all our myriad faces.

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Despite What Rick Santorum Tells You, Higher Education Still Matters

Kyle Anderson | Posted 05.16.2012

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The college experience is meant to be a time for students to ask big questions, challenge the status quo, and develop a stronger sense of identity in preparation for adulthood.

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Sadly, It Seems Sandra Fluke Wasn't The First Woman Falsely Accused of Being a Prostitute by an Intimidated Man.

Sarah O'Leary | Posted 05.16.2012

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It seems the Bible never referred to Mary Magdalene as a prostitute. A Catholic Pope did.

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Muslims Rally In Support Of NYPD Mosque Surveillance

HuffingtonPost.com | Jaweed Kaleem | Posted 03.05.2012

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NEW YORK -- As the imam at the Muhammadi Community Center, a mosque and Islamic center in Queens, Mohd Qayyoom has closely watched reports that the ci...

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Is Scientific Evidence Modern-Day Scripture?

Rev. Michael Dowd | Posted 05.02.2012

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We are in the early stages of what I think historians will one day call religion's Evidential Reformation. Increasingly, most of us relate to scientific, historic and cross-cultural evidence as more authoritative than a literalist reading of Scripture.

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What States Have The Most Mosques? Survey Shows Trends Among American Muslims

HuffingtonPost.com | Jaweed Kaleem | Posted 02.29.2012

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In the decade since 9/11, American Muslims and mosques have come under a close lens, from congressional hearings on radicalization to campaigns agains...

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Muslim Students 'Stunted' By Police Spying

HuffingtonPost.com | Jaweed Kaleem | Posted 02.24.2012

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NEW YORK -- In his three years studying computer science at New York University, Ali Shah has come to call the campus Islamic center a second home. It...

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President Obama's Faith Inspires Pastors' Defense Of White House Religion Policies

HuffingtonPost.com | Jaweed Kaleem | Posted 02.24.2012

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Religious and nonprofit group leaders Thursday defended President Barack Obama's spiritual beliefs and his administration's support of faith-based gro...

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