Monthly Archives: June 2008
Bishop knew of abortion plan
By Kevin Eckstrom — June 30, 2008
Mr. Neill said the bishop was informed Jan. 17, the day before an abortion was performed on the 16-year-old Guatemalan girl, who was a foster care client of Commonwealth Catholic Charities of Richmond (CCR), a group incorporated under the diocese.
The Pawlenty Walk
By Mark Silk — June 30, 2008
Brody’s hawking his interview with Gov. Tim Pawlenty and a couple of the clips are worth a perusal. I. If John McCain needs to do as much work rounding up evangelicals at this point in the election cycle as Pawlenty suggests (and he sure seems to), then the presumptive GOP nominee is farther out of […]
Pet Peeve
By Mark Silk — June 30, 2008
The Denver Post‘s Karen Crummy has a series of articles (here, here, here, here, and here) showing why Obama may do better than his Democratic predecessors in a number of Western states (Montana, Colorado, Nevada, and New Mexico). But among the various factors she looks into, the prevalence of religious categories favorable to the Democrats […]
SUSA Keeps On Keeping On
By Mark Silk — June 30, 2008
Now Virginia. I continue to be struck with the consistency with which SUSA’s state polls show McCain leading strongly among regular worship attenders, Obama among those who attend occasionally and almost never. John Green and I have always measured what we call the religion gap by the differential in the votes for Republican and Democratic […]
Johnny and the Grahams
By Mark Silk — June 30, 2008
Did McCain get what he wanted out of Franklin and Billy? “My father and I were pleased to have an opportunity to meet and visit with Sen. John McCain today,” Franklin Graham said in a statement. “The senator and I both have sons currently serving in the military, and also have a common interest in […]
Faith Based
By Mark Silk — June 29, 2008
Once upon a time, in a country far away, what the president cared most about, and what most exercised public debate, was something called a faith-based initiative. The idea was that religiously inspired organizations could do a better job delivering social services than mere secular or, God knows, governmental agencies. Or at least could do […]
Keeping the Faith
By Mark Silk — June 28, 2008
Being a professor, I don’t get to write just anything, but one of the touching things about Hunter Thompson epigones like Matt Taibbi is how they like upholding gospel truth against the contemporary prosperity gospel. As in: McCain’s transformation is so complete that at a recent town-hall meeting in Nashville, when asked to name an […]
Dobson 0, Obama 1
By Mark Silk — June 28, 2008
Dobson <a href="lays an egg with former Bush White House apparatchik Peter Wehner. The jamesdobsondoesntspeakforme petition is up to 10,000 and counting. The beginning of a movement? Cf. Sam Freedman pushing from this end.
New Yorker Evangelicals
By Mark Silk — June 28, 2008
Unfortunately, the powers that be at the New Yorker have not seen fit to put Frances Fitzgerald’s Annals of Religion piece up on the web–the latest effort to answer the question: Is the old religious right giving way to a new, broader, more moderate engaged evangelicalism? Fitzgerald, who’s been on the beat off and on […]
Presbyterians move to allow gay clergy, but fight remains
By Kimberly Winston — June 28, 2008
c. 2008 Religion News Service SAN JOSE, Calif. _ The nation’s largest Presbyterian denomination on Friday (June 27) cracked open the door to ordaining non-celibate gay and lesbian clergy, though the decades-old fight is far from over. Delegates at the Presbyterian Church (USA) meeting here voted 54 percent to 46 percent to remove a clause […]
Va. judge sides with breakaway Episcopal churches
By Daniel Burke — June 28, 2008
c. 2008 Religion News Service WASHINGTON _ A Civil War-era law that lets Virginia churches keep their property when leaving a denomination where a “division” has occurred is constitutional, a county judge ruled Friday (June 27), siding with 11 former Episcopal parishes. Fairfax County Judge Randy I. Bellows’ ruling on the 1867 law stops short […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — June 28, 2008
c. 2008 Religion News Service Town asks court to decide upkeep of church cemetery PALMYRA, Pa. (RNS) With residents calling it “pathetic” that no one is caring for a cemetery, town officials have asked the Lebanon County Court to decide who should be responsible for its upkeep. Two local churches that cared for the cemetery […]
Cleaning St. Peter’s Needs a Careful, Acrobatic Touch
By Tracy Gordon — June 28, 2008
VATICAN CITY-As the tomb of the first pope and the principal church of most of his 264 successors, St. Peter’s Basilica is Roman Catholicism’s greatest shrine. It’s also a treasure trove of artistic riches, with works by such artists as Michelangelo, Raphael and Bernini. At more than 600 feet long, with a dome 450 feet […]
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