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Gay Catholic delivers 18,000 signatures to bishop asking to be reinstated
NEW YORK (RNS) A gay man ousted from posts at his Long Island parish after a critic complained that he had married his partner delivered a petition with more than 18,000 signatures on Thursday (April 11) to Bishop William Murphy, asking to be reinstated.
"Bishop Murphy, please...
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Meet the ‘Catholic NRA’
(RNS) As the Senate takes up a heated debate over gun control and background checks, Catholic bishops have used the months since the Newtown school massacre to push gun control in email blasts and Senate Judiciary Committee testimony. But among the Catholic faithful, not everyone su...
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Can a Catholic hoops conference save college sports?
(RNS) March Madness ended with an exhilarating April flourish on Monday (April 8) as the Louisville Cardinals defeated the Michigan Wolverines and became the new kings of college basketball after a tense 82-76 win in Atlanta.
But the euphoria that always accompanies the popular...
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Producer priest navigates Hollywood in a collar
LOS ANGELES (RNS) No sooner had Eric Andrews arrived on the set of "The Lost Valentine," a 2011 Hallmark Channel movie starring Jennifer Love Hewitt and Betty White, when his neckwear attracted attention.
"People are looking at me, and trying to figure out who I was," he said....
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Vatican gets behind adult stem cell research
VATICAN CITY (RNS) Wading into one of the most controversial fields of modern medicine, the Vatican is pushing adult stem cell research as ethical and scientifically more promising than embryonic stem cell research.
That's despite assertions from many in the scientific communit...
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Cohabitation is lasting longer, becoming more common
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(RNS) Unmarried couples who live together are staying together longer than in the past -- and more of them are having children, according to n...
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HBO documents unlikely saviors of 50 Holocaust children
(RNS) Gilbert and Eleanor Kraus lived a comfortable life in 1930s Philadelphia, where he made a good living as a lawyer, and she kept a stylish house.
They were secular Jews who sent their children to a Quaker school, and unlikely candidates for the mission they assigned themse...
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COMMENTARY: The trouble with labels
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(RNS) Labels can be helpful when, for instance, applied to cans of soup or barrels of toxic waste. But they are...
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Lego says its Jabba the Hutt set isn’t anti-Muslim
(RNS) Lego is defending its "Star Wars"-based Jabba the Hutt toy set after a Turkish cultural group said it promulgates negative stereotypes of Muslims.
Earlier this year, the Turkish Cultural Community of Austria criticized the Danish toy company, saying the Jabba's Palace set...
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COMMENTARY: R-E-S-P-E-C-T for our gay and lesbian friends
(RNS) While Supreme Court justices engaged in contorted questioning, the verdict as rendered by wiser tests -- known as "sniff" and "common sense" -- was already in.
Gay marriage is a fact of life. Gay men and women have been forming partnerships for longer than anyone can reme...
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