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Vatican settles with Benetton over pope-kissing ad
VATICAN CITY (RNS) The Vatican has settled a lawsuit with Benetton clothing group for using the image of Pope Benedict XVI kissing a Muslim imam in an ad campaign. By Alessandro Speciale.
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Maurice Sendak’s Jewish legacy lives on along with the ‘Wild Things’
(RNS) It's a measure of Maurice Sendak's imagination that his stories -- so infused with a very particular Jewishness -- are absent evidence of Judaism or anything else besides a good read to his most important readers. By Tim Townsend.
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Narnia, Hogwarts or Neverland? Christians chose their favorite fantasy land
Evangelicals prefer Narnia, Catholics have a wanderlust for Wonderland, and mainline Protestants are split between hitching a ride to Hogwarts, Narnia or Neverland. By Daniel Burke.
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Kirk Cameron: From prime-time heartthrob to ‘Hollywood freak’
(RNS) Former TV child star Kirk Cameron knows he is now the darling of only a certain segment of America. "I'm kind of a Hollywood freak," he says. "I didn't really turn out the way most people turn out growing up in this industry." By Lauren Markoe.
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Why we’re hungry for ‘The Hunger Games’
(RNS) Does the popularity of `The Hunger Games' offer good news for those of us concerned about American civilization and the younger generation? Yes. By Dick Staub.
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COMMENTARY: We can do better
(RNS) We have seen ourselves up close and decided we can do better. Pouring a lifetime of earnings into showy living becomes embarrassing. Turning religion into shouting matches and rampant bigotry doesn't pass any gospel sniff test. By Tom Ehrich.
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What Would Jesus Brew? Lots, beer makers say.
WILMINGTON, N.C. (RNS) Christopher McGarvey is a recent seminary graduate, a cantor at St. Basil the Great Orthodox Church and the brains behind the What Would Jesus Brew class -- part of a yearlong Heavenly Homebrew Competition of church teams brewing individual beers for a fall event benefitting a hospice center. By Amanda Greene.
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Pillsbury Bake-Off puts crimp in cook’s Passover prep
(RNS) Amy Siegel will compete in the Pillsbury Bake-Off in Orlando on Monday (March 26) with her strawberry swirl-peanut-butter-brownie cupcakes, but the contest is getting in the way of preparing her kitchen for Passover. By Vicki Hyman.
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Bowling lanes disappearing from U.S. churches
PEORIA, Ill. (RNS) When Max and Nancy Carson got married at St. Ann Catholic Church in 1974, the organ music was accompanied by the unmistakable sound of balls crashing into bowling pins from the basement. But now church bowling alleys are a dying breed, with fewer than 200 remaining in the U.S. By Judy Keen.
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Saints compete for top ranking in ‘Lent Madness’
(RNS) Combining a love of sports and passion for the saints, the online "Lent Madness" competition includes 32 saints from the Episcopal calendar of saints who are eliminated one by one through online votes. By Annalisa Musarra.
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