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Mary Karr Interview: "Lit" Part II

Huffington Post | Steve Ross | Posted 11.11.2009 | Books

Read More: Writing Memoir, New Books, Mary Karr Lit, Bestsellers, Catholicism, Cherry, Lit, Writers, Melville, Interview, Writing, Authors, The Liar's Club, Mary Karr Memoir, Author Interviews, Books, Mary Karr, Mary Karr Interview, Memoir, Books News

The following is a continuation of a Huffington Post interview with author Mary Karr on her new memoir, "Lit." You can read the first part here. Hu...

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Crucifix Banned From Italy's Schools By New EU Court Ruling

AP | ALESSANDRA RIZZO | Posted 11.03.2009 | World

Read More: Public Schools, Islam, Crucifixes Banned, Atheism, EU Courts, Catholicism, Italy Schools, Immigration, Italy, Eu, Catholics, Religion, Education, Italian Schools, Courts, Vatican, Pope, Separation of Church and State, Faith, World News

ROME — The Vatican on Tuesday denounced a ruling by the European court of human rights that said the display of crucifixes in Italian public sch...

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Italy: Crucifixes Banned In Schools, Rules European Court Of Human Rights

BBC NEWS | Posted 11.03.2009 | World

Read More: Crucifixes, European Court of Human Rights, Catholicism, European Union, Christianity, Italy, Eu, World News

The European Court of Human Rights has ruled against the use of crucifixes in classrooms in Italy....

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The "Generosity" of Pope Benedict XVI

Ed Gurowitz, Ph.D. | Posted 10.26.2009 | Living

Read More: Catholic Church, Katherine Jefferts Schori, Roman Catholic Church, Catholicism, Women Priests, Same Sex Marriage, Dr. Rowan Williams, Episcopal Church, Married Clergy, Gay Bishops, Anglican Communion, Pope Benedict XVI, Same-Sex Marriage, Archbishop of Canterbury, Living News

Pope Benedict XVI has opened the door of the Roman Catholic Church to those in the Anglican Communion who are disaffected over issues of ordaining gays and women and same-sex marriage.

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Kenya: Anglicans Reject Pope's Offer To Join Catholic Church

BBC NEWS | Posted 10.23.2009 | World

Read More: Catholic Church, Kenya, Anglican, Catholicism, Anglican Church, Catholic Bishops, Pope Benedict, Anglican Communion, Pope, Pope Benedict XVI, World News

The head of Kenya's Anglican Church, Archbishop Eliud Wabukala, has rejected the Pope's offer to allow disaffected Anglicans to join the Catholic Chur...

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Protein Wisdom and the Radness of Crowds

Barrett Brown | Posted 10.06.2009 | Media

Read More: Rick Santorum, Blogosphere, Obama, Conservatism, Catholicism, Palin, Protein Wisdom, Media News

How will Americans look as the globalization of the internet brings a billion new foreigners in close contact with those of us who express our political views online, no matter the medium?

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6 Supreme Court Justices Attend Catholic Service Red Mass; Cardinal Pleads For Rights Of Unborn

AP | Posted 10.04.2009 | Home

Read More: Michael Steele, Red Mass, Supreme Court, Scalia, Justice, Ray Lahood, Roberts, Kennedy, Alito, Antonin Scalia, St. Matthew Cathedral, Pro-Life, Joe Biden, John Roberts, Breyer, Biden, Cardinal DiNardo, Catholicism, Stephen Breyer, Abortion, John Carroll Society, Anti-Abortion, Sonia Sotomayor, Pro-Choice, Sotomayor, Samuel Alito, Ken Salazar, Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle, Anthony Kennedy, D.C., Catholic, Home News

WASHINGTON — An American cardinal on Sunday issued a plea for the rights of the unborn at a church service that included Vice President Joe Bide...

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Spider On Pope (PICTURE, VIDEO): Spider Crawls On Pope Benedict's Face During Speech In Prague

AP | Posted 09.26.2009 | World

Read More: Photo, Spider, Catholicism, Prague Visit, Travel, Catholic, Prague, Pope, Pictures, Pope Benedict XVI, Czech Republic, Slideshow, World News

PRAGUE (AP) — President Barack Obama had his fly. Now Pope Benedict XVI has his spider. A large arachnid appeared on the pope's white robes as ...

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America's Second and Third Female Catholic Priests Ordained

Claire Walter | Posted 09.21.2009 | Denver

Read More: Catholic Church, Roman-Catholic-Womenpriests, Roman Catholic Church, Ecumenical Catholic Communion, Marriage, Religion, Catholicism, Teri Harroun, Sheila Dierks, Denver, Colorado, Denver News

Still a small offshoot of the Catholic Church, the Ecumenical Catholic Communion estimates that it has about 2,500 members nationwide, one-fifth or more in Colorado -- and it ordains women.

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There's Something About Maria...

David Paul Appell | Posted 10.16.2009 | Living

Read More: Florida, Tom Monaghan, Ave Maria, Roman Catholic Church, Freedom of Religion, Roman Catholicism, Catholicism, Living News

Ave Maria, the two-year-old "Roman Catholic town" whose construction was spearheaded by Domino's Pizza magnate Tom Monaghan, hasn't been spared by the economic slump.

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Redemption Song: Ted Kennedy Through Allen Ginsberg's Eyes

RJ Eskow | Posted 09.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Bodhisattva, Buddhism, Redemption, Allen Ginsberg, Catholicism, Ted Kennedy, Death, Politics News

Ted Kennedy was a Catholic, not a Buddhist, but his life reads like a Bodhisattvic exercise.

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Justice Sotomayor, Justice Scalia and Our Six Catholic Justices

Geoffrey R. Stone | Posted 09.28.2009 | Home

Read More: Supreme Court, Roe vs Wade, Catholicism, William Rehnquist, Sonia Sotomayor, Antonin Scalia, Home News

Does the religion of the justices in any way matter to the business of the Supreme Court? During Sotomayor's confirmation hearings, her faith was largely backgrounded, as if being Latina matters but being Catholic doesn't.

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US Jews protest Catholic document on salvation

AP | RACHEL ZOLL | Posted 09.21.2009 | Home

Read More: Religion, Jews, U.S. Bishops, Covenant and Mission, Orthodox Judaism, Catholicism, Catholics, Statement on Salvation, American Jewish Committee, Roman Catholic, U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, Anti-Defamation League, Judaism, Pope, Home News

NEW YORK — Major Jewish groups and rabbis from the three largest branches of American Judaism said Thursday that their relationship with Roman C...

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RIP Robert Novak

Ron Mwangaguhunga | Posted 09.18.2009 | Media

Read More: Robert Novak, Catholic Church, Town Hall Debate, Jack Kemp, Catholicism, Capital Gains Taxes, George W. Bush, Born-Again-Christians, Republican-Values, Republican Party, Town Hall Meetings, Media News

Novak, aware of that natural weakness in his personality, never tired of seeking a more harmonious sense of being. That, I think, is what made Novak ultimately a good man.

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Pope: My 'Guardian Angel' Let Me Down

AP | Posted 08.29.2009 | World

LES COMBES, Italy — Pope Benedict XVI said Wednesday that his guardian angel was clearly acting "on superior orders" when he let the pontiff fal...

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Nicaragua Abortion Ban Forces Rape, Incest Victims To Give Birth

Huffington Post | Posted 08.27.2009 | World

Read More: Catholic Church, Abortion, Nicaragua Abortion Ban, Latin America, Catholicism, Abortion Rights, Foreign Affairs, Catholic, Catholic Abortion, Nicaragua, Advocacy, World News

In predominantly Catholic Nicaragua, an all-out ban on abortion, regardless of any potential risk childbirth poses to the mother, is drawing fire from...

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U.S. Nuns Facing Sweeping Vatican Investigation

The New York Times | Posted 08.02.2009 | Politics

Read More: Second Vatican Council, Catholic Church, Religion, Apostolic Visitation, Roman Catholic Church, Catholicism, Catholic Nuns, Inquisition, Vatican, Pope, Jesuits, Pope Benedict XVI, Politics News

The Vatican is quietly conducting two sweeping investigations of American nuns, a development that has startled and dismayed nuns who fear they are th...

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Archbishop Jose Cardoso Sobrinho, Brazilian Bishop Involved In 9-Year-Old Abortion Controversy, Retires

AP | Posted 08.01.2009 | World

Read More: Brazil, Foreign Affairs, Advocacy, Catholic Church, Catholic, Catholicism, Archbishop Jose Cardoso Sobrinho, Pope, Pope Benedict XVI, World News

VATICAN CITY — The Vatican has announced the retirement of a Brazilian archbishop who caused a major stir when he declared that those involved i...

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Abortion Revisited -- My Response to a Friend Whose Choice is No Choice

Danielle Cavallucci | Posted 07.05.2009 | Politics

Read More: Abortion, Family Planning, Pro-Life, Pro-Choice, Catholicism, Abortion Rights, Dr. George Tiller, Politics News

The United States has the highest abortion and unwanted pregnancy rate of any developed nation because of the way we handle the subjects of sexuality and abortion.

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Thank God It's Thursday: Book Expo '09 & The 27s plus The Singular Thomas Dolby

Mike Ragogna | Posted 07.04.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Nikola Tesla, Italian, Brian Jones, Catholicism, Josh Hunter, New Wave, Eric Segalstad, Dolby's Cube, Who, The Magic Show, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Stevie Wonder, Lene Lovich, Dynasty, Margaret Thatcher, Burt Bacharach, Albert Einstein, Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, Dan Hicks, Peter Ham, The Kushans, Albert Schatz, Jesus, Wicked, Stephen Schwartz, Jacob K. Javits Convention Center, Mario Puzo, Depeche Mode, Poughkeepsie, Rose Bowl, Prefab Sprout, Thompson Twins, Roger Waters, Foreigner, Entertainment News, Carol De Gierer, Doug Henning, Pink Floyd, Enchanted, Joni Mitchell, Chris Bell, India, Unplugged, Promises in the Dark, Thomas Dolby, Poughkeepsie Journal, Live Aid, Jim Morrison, The Wall, Ronald Reagan, Mephisto on Wing, Latin, Broadway, Neil Young, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Issa, The 27 Club, Janis Joplin, Grand Theft Auto, Yellow Magic Orchestra, Antoinette Pannard, David Bowie, Mtv, MTV Unplugged, Amazon, Kathleen Beller, Bill Clinton, Angels & Demons, Pocahontas, Albert Schweitzer, Kurt Cobain, George Clinton, Bookexpo, Robert Johnson, Grammy Awards, Best Buy, Lois Drake, Pop Music, The Godfather, Jazz, Indiana Jones, Howard Jones, The Betsy, New Age, Def Leppard, Jimi Hendrix, Robyn Hitchcock, Dan Brown, Pippin, Godspell, Entertainment News

This year's BookExpo in New York City had its usual small arena of publishers at gussied-up kiosks hawking the latest and greatest by writers known and unknown.

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Abortion & Catholicism: Can't You Find Something Better To Do?

Danielle Cavallucci | Posted 07.04.2009 | Politics

Read More: Abortion, Women's Rights, Obama Administration, Family Planning, Women's Issues, Catholicism, International-Family-Planning, Politics News

Forcing a woman who's been victimized by rape or incest to carry a child to term demonstrates Catholicism's blatant disrespect for the plight of women.

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Newt Gingrich: "Part Of Me Is Inherently Medieval"

U.S. News and World Reports | Posted 06.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Newt Gingrich, Gop, Pope John Paul II, Catholicism, Callista Gingrich, Politics News

Former House speaker and Republican überstrategist Newt Gingrich is off to Europe next week to shoot a documentary on Pope John Paul II's 1979 trip t...

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The Real Idea of a University

Jon O'Brien | Posted 06.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Catholics, Abortion, Obama Notre Dame Protests, Obama Notre Dame Graduation Speech, Catholicism, Notre Dame, Notre Dame Commencement, Obama Notre Dame, Pro-Choice, Obama Notre Dame Commencement, Politics News

When President Obama speaks to the new graduates at Notre Dame on Sunday, he will do so knowing that the vast majority of Catholics support him being there.

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Cheer, Cheer for Old Notre Dame

James Carroll | Posted 06.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: Catholic Church, Catholicism, Notre Dame, Obama Catholics, Obama Notre Dame, Pope Benedict, Abortion Catholic Church, Pope Benedict XVI, Politics News

The crucial question that underlies the flap at Notre Dame is this: Will Roman Catholicism, with its global reach, be swept into the rising tide of religious fundamentalism?

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