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Billy Graham released from hospital
(RNS) Evangelist Billy Graham returned to his North Carolina home Tuesday (Dec. 6) after a six-day stay in a nearby hospital where he was treated for pneumonia.
Graham, 93, responded well to antibiotics and grew stronger and more mobile after physical therapy, said Dr. Mark Hellrich,...
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Church wrestles with growth of Wisconsin shrine to Mary
CHAMPION, Wis. (RNS) Philip and Barbara Hesselbein came to the Shrine of Our Lady of Good Help to pray for a grandson who has an inoperable brain tumor.
Darlene Searcy prayed for her family and for herself; she has cancer.
Mary Spakowicz, who also has cancer, came "because God will he...
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GUEST COMMENTARY: Southern Baptists, change thy name
CHAMPION, Wis. (RNS) Philip and Barbara Hesselbein came to the Shrine of Our Lady of Good Help to pray for a grandson who has an inoperable brain tumor.
Darlene Searcy prayed for her family and for herself; she has cancer.
Mary Spakowicz, who also has cancer, came "because God will he...
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Monday Godbytes
Daniel Macguire over at Religion Dispatches asks if there is a Catholic "turnabout" on abortion.
In other Catholic news, Tom Beaudoin over at America Magazine wonders what would happen if "Occupy Wall Street" happened within the Catholic Church.
Meanwhile, CNN reports that the trial o...
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Crisis pregnancy group reflects Jewish divide on abortion
SILVER SPRING, Md. (RNS) Saraleah was 19 and a part-time student when she discovered she was pregnant. She didn't know how it could have happened -- until she flashed back to a party nine weeks earlier where she was given a drink, realized it was vodka and then passed ou...
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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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