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I'm in Jerusalem to participate in the Israeli Presidential Conference, a giant talkathon mounted now for the fourth year by Shimon Peres, Israeli's eldest living statesman. The conference center is a mob scene, with people not just from Israel rushing around to hear all manner of big and small shots (beginning with Henry Kissinger) opine on issues of gravitas.
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Mormon theater professor David V. Mason ruffled the dovecotes the other day by declaring in a NYT op-ed that he doesn't consider himself a Christian.
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After meeting with the leaders of the Leadership Conference on Women Religious (LCWR) on Tuesday, the chief of the Vatican's doctrine police, Cardinal William Levada, told John Allen of the National Catholic Reporter that there was "a risk of a 'dialogue of the deaf'"--which according to the Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable means "a discussion in which each party is unresponsive to what the others say."
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I'm afraid a Massachusett judge's dismissal last week of a lawsuit to bar public schools from requiring students to say the Pledge of Allegiance just won't wash. The issue, of course, has to do with that pesky phrase "under God," which Congress inserted into the Pledge at the height of the Cold War in order to differentiate the U.S. of A. from Soviet Russia.
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Today, fellow RNS blogger Jana Riess criticizes her friend (and mine) Diane Winston for criticizing Matthew Bowman for not owning up to his Mormon identity in The Mormon People, his new book on the history of the faith. I'm with Jana on the analysis, Diane on the conclusion. Bowman should have owned up.
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Courtesy of Google's amazing N-gram project, here's the relative frequency of "religious freedom" and "religious liberty" in American printing materials in the course of our national history. In case you can't read the small print, "religious liberty" is way more popular than "religious...
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Bill Donohue has finally mounted a defense of his BFF Cardinal Dolan, the burden of which is that it is phony to attack the guy for "inducing suspected miscreant priests to exit the priesthood while he was the Archbishop of Milwaukee," because his critics aren't really interested in how to handle sex abusers.
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Yesterday I received the following email from my friend the priest in the Archdiocese of Milwaukee. He was responding to the situation his former boss, Cardinal Timothy Dolan, has gotten himself into by denouncing reports that he authorized payments to pedophile priests in order to induce them to voluntarily accept laicization.
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I would be remiss in not noting GR's Mollie Z. Hemingway's response to GGR's response to her plea for an explanation of the "philosophy" behind RNS' use of scare quotes around the term "religious liberty" in its story on a confab sponsored by the Ethics and Public Policy Center.
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With the Catholic Church looking more and more like Yeats' rough beast, my social science colleagues have provided a tantalizing glimpse of what was and what might have been. In a research paper based on the massive 1990 and 2008 American Religious Identity Survey data sets, Barry Kosmin and Juhem Navarro-Rivera look at what's happened demographically and religiously to Gen-Xers born between 1965 and 1972.
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Mark Silk is Professor of Religion in Public Life at Trinity College and director of the college's Program on Public Values. He joined Trinity College after working as a reporter, editorial writer and columnist at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. He writes on news media coverage of religious subject matter.
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