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Happy Feast of Saint Nicholas! Or that "jolly old elf," as we've come to know him. Though in fact - as this recent facial reconstruction from his 1,600-year-old-skull shows - he was a tough, olive-skinned battler for Christian orthodoxy back in Asia Minor, or what we kno...
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David Gibson is an award-winning religion journalist, author and filmmaker. He writes for RNS and until recently covered the religion beat for AOL's Politics Daily. He blogs at Commonweal magazine, and has written two books on Catholic topics, the latest a biography of Pope Benedict XVI.
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If you missed the fireworks at the GOP presidential debate last night in Charleston, Newt Gingrich ripped the media for prying into his, er, open marriage (the second one). Meanwhile, Gingrich's lesbian sister says its "frustrating as hell" that her brother gets to have three marriages when she can't even have one.
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Rick Perry, once the Great Evangelical Hope, is dropping out. Was he ever in it?
Perry reportedly will throw his support - and both his supporters - behind Newt Gingrich. That should ice it.
Tough day all around for Mitt Romney: Turns out Rick Santorum actually won the Iowa caucuses, so he c...
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Big stretches of the Internet are going dark today in protest over efforts to stop people from stealing stuff that isn't theirs. Got it?
Somehow the Religion Roundup is still here - even if I have to make it up. Which is pretty much what the Internet is about anyway, no?
One of the major sit...
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As they have every year since moving to the White House, President Obama and the first family spent part of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Day at a historically black church in D.C.
Speaking of MLK, the Interior Department says they'll fix the quote on his National Mall memorial. Maya Angelou s...
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Mitt Romney is getting hammered by his Republican rivals in South Carolina, and Mormons overall still worry about being accepted.
But a new Pew survey of Mormons also indicates they are generally feeling pretty good about their place in American society.
Social conservatives are feeling good...
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