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Thursday’s Religion Roundup: Cage-fighting for Jesus? Apocalypse now—again?

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Evangelicals debate the ethics of cage-fighting, George Soros channels Harold Camping, Alaska Airlines stops handing out prayer cards, we reveal “most exciting archival discovery in the post-Reformation era.”

Topics: Culture, Sports
Beliefs: Christian - Catholic, Christian - Protestant
Tags: apocalypse, clergy abuse scandal, movies, rosary, sports

David Gibson

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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