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Friday’s roundup
The former COO of Catholic Charities in Washington said the decision to end spousal benefits for employees is "devastating" and will hurt the agency's ability to recruit quality employees. The Iowa teacher who refused to let a student build a Wiccan altar in shop class has been suspen...
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For traveling Jews, no more wandering alone in the wilderness
JERUSALEM (RNS) Andre Ufferfilge figures he probably could have found a couch to crash on in Israel through friends of friends, but he instead found a home-cooked kosher meal and acceptance for his traditional Jewish lifestyle.
Before he left his university campus in Dusseldorf, Germa...
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God and the gridiron? Some are crying foul
(RNS) Heisman Trophy-winning quarterback Tim Tebow won't be on the Super Bowl field in Miami this Sunday (Feb. 7), but his expected prime-time anti-abortion ad is keeping him in the spotlight, and raising questions about the sometimes awkward balancing act between religion and sports....
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Tuesday’s round up
President Obama met with Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan at the White House yesterday and pressed him to "reintegrate religious minorities," open the Halki seminary, and give Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew some room to do his job.
The Supreme Court said it will decide whether a Calif...
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Wednesday’s religion round-up
Federal authorities charged two Chicago men with plotting terrorist attacks in Europe, including the offices of the Danish newspaper that published anti-Muslim cartoons several years ago. An anti-abortion activist is calling on people to burn effigies of Speaker Pelosi and Sen. Harry...
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GUEST COMMENTARY: Barring abortion in health care reform
(RNS) It's time to clear the air in the current debate over whether proposed health care legislation covers abortion. What's the truth?
Number one issue: Whether the Hyde Amendment applies now
The Hyde Amendment has been federal policy since 1976. It states that money from the Labor/H...
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Conscience clauses not just about abortion anymore
WASHINGTON (RNS) Faced with a request to give an unmarried female patient a prescription for birth control pills, Dr. Michele Phillips looked to her conscience for the answer.
"I'm not going to give any kind of medication I see as harmful," said Phillips of San Antonio. The drugs woul...
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Vatican to canonize Hawaii’s leper priest
VATICAN CITY (RNS) When Pope Benedict XVI proclaims Blessed Damien de Veuster a saint on Sunday (Oct. 11), among the 40,000 expected attendees at the ceremony in St. Peter's Square will be the King and Queen of Belgium and a White House delegation including Ambassador to the Vatican M...
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Report: Support for abortion on decline in America
WASHINGTON (RNS) Support for abortion is declining across the country, with Americans now evenly divided on whether it should be legal, a new report shows.
In 2007 and 2008, supporters of legal abortion more clearly outnumbered opponents, but recent surveys by the Pew Research Center...
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O’Malley defends Kennedy’s Catholic funeral
(RNS) Cardinal Sean O'Malley of Boston on Wednesday (Sept. 2) defended his attendance at the funeral of Sen. Ted Kennedy, a prominent dissenter from Catholic teachings on gay rights and legalized abortion.
O'Malley wrote on his blog that it was "appropriate to represent the church at...
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