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COMMENTARY: Thrift store saints
(RNS) What I actually know about God might, on a good day, fit on a quarter of the head of a pin compared to the fullness of God's true hugeness.
That said, there are a couple of things about the Almighty that I'm pretty certain are true.
God's grace is always staggering and often sur...
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Anti-abortion `Pro-Life Freedom Ride’ turned away from King’s tomb
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (RNS) Invoking the memory of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and the civil rights movement, anti-abortion clergy members and their supporters on Saturday (July 24) embarked on a "Pro-Life Freedom Ride" but were turned away from King's tomb in Atlanta.
The group, organ...
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ACLU wants protection for women at religious hospitals
(RNS) After a controversial abortion performed at a Catholic hospital in Phoenix, the American Civil Liberties Union is asking federal officials to protect "emergency reproductive care" at religiously affiliated hospitals.
The ACLU called on the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Servi...
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Thursday’s roundup
Secular groups are getting a little antsy with President Obama's slow pace of reform on the White House's faith-based office. Outspoken atheist Christopher Hitchens says he has cancer of the esophagus and cancelled his book tour.
Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan carried forth (someon...
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Demographics race colors Israel’s abortion debate
JERUSALEM (RNS) Inside an office about the size of a three-bedroom apartment, the walls are covered with pictures of babies and letters from grateful mothers.
In a warehouse a few blocks away, three workers pack boxes with essentials -- diapers, baby wipes, formula, matzo for Passover...
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COMMENTARY: What started on Mt. Sinai didn’t end there
(RNS) The story of the two-day Jewish festival of Shavuot -- beginning this year at sundown on Tuesday (May 18) is well known, starting with a ragtag group of Israelites who had just escaped slavery in Pharaoh's Egypt.
The ancient Israelites, under Moses' leadership, weren't yet ready...
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D.A. reaches out to families in faith-healing church
OREGON CITY, Ore. (RNS) District Attorney John Foote kept his promise to reach out to an Oregon City church whose members have been prosecuted for failing to provide adequate medical care for their children.
Foote sent a letter to 415 families who belong to the Followers of Christ Chu...
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Bishop removes hospital from CHA over health care bill
WASHINGTON (RNS) A health care system in Rhode Island has withdrawn from the national Catholic Health Association in a lingering dispute over the health care bill Congress passed last month.
Bishop Thomas Tobin of Providence, R.I., demanded that CHA remove St. Joseph Health Services o...
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Experts describe Michigan militia as a cult
ANN ARBOR, Mich. (RNS) When militia expert Jack Kay first ran across a MySpace page for the Michigan-based Hutaree militia six months ago, he thought it was just another group wrapping itself in God and country.
But on Monday (March 29), following weekend raids by federal authorities...
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Quebec moves to ban veils for Muslim women
TORONTO (RNS) The Canadian province of Quebec has introduced unprecedented legislation that would effectively bar Muslim women from receiving or delivering public services while wearing a niqab, or face-covering veil.
"Two words: Uncovered face," Quebec Premier Jean Charest told repor...
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