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Monday’s Religion News Roundup
Some possibly good news for Mitt Romney's fledgling 2012 campaign: two-thirds of Americans say his Mormonism doesn't matter, including 58 of evangelicals. But he could still face a tough road threading the eye of the needle in the evangelical-heavy early primaries: Evangelicals, more...
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Think you’ll need last rites? Better plan ahead
CLEVELAND (RNS) In days long gone, Roman Catholic priests regularly made deathbed house calls, even in the middle of the night with little notice, to pray over the dying and anoint them with holy oils.
The candlelight ritual, popularly known as last rites, continues in hospitals, nurs...
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Thursday’s Religion News Roundup
All eyes are on Capitol Hill today as the House Committee on Homeland Security opens hearings on homegrown Islamic "radicalization." The hearings are being live-streamed here, with a handy WaPo guide to the witnesses here. Chairman Peter King (left) opened the show by saying there's n...
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Vatican to draft guidelines for Catholic hospitals
VATICAN CITY (RNS) Controversies over bioethical standards at U.S. Catholic hospitals show the need for greater Catholic education for health care workers, Vatican officials said Thursday (Feb. 3).
Church leaders said a new set of biomedical guidelines will be published later this yea...
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Vatican says no change to teaching on condoms, prostitutes
VATICAN CITY (RNS) Pope Benedict XVI's recent comments about condoms do not mark a change in "Catholic moral teaching" or "pastoral practice" on AIDS prevention or contraception, the Vatican said Tuesday (Dec. 21).
The statement by the Congregation for the Doctrine of Faith, the Catho...
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Lutheran leader seeks Communion agreement with pope
ROME (RNS/ENInews) The president of the Lutheran World Federation is calling on Lutherans and Catholics to issue a common statement on Holy Communion to mark the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation in 2017.
"Our intention is to arrive at 2017 with a common Roman Catholic-L...
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10 minutes with ... Laura Hobgood-Oster
(RNS) The full force of Christian compassion and hospitality should be applied to all creatures -- including animals, university professor Laura Hobgood-Oster argues in a recent book.
Taking her cues from Christian scripture, history and tradition, Hobgood-Oster strives to alert Chris...
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10 minutes with … Linda Mobley
(RNS) In this season of giving thanks and counting blessings, Linda Mobley of Vancouver, Wash., says she's been blessed by breast cancer. Twice.
She thought she'd beaten the disease eight years ago. But soon after she'd self-published her book, "Blessed with Cancer," in July, Mobley w...
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Study calls for sensitivity in Muslims’ medical care
(RNS) U.S. doctors need to take religious values into account while providing health care, especially when the patient is a Muslim woman, according to a new study in the Journal of Medical Ethics.
Dr. Aasim Padela, the study's lead author and a professor of emergency medicine at the U...
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Monday’s Religion News Roundup
More than 40 worshippers at a Baghdad Catholic church were killed when insurgents stormed the church Sunday night; U.S. military officials said the subsequent raid by Iraqi commandos that killed the hijackers demonstrates the Iraqis' ability to fight for themselves. B16 denounced the...
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