Friday’s Religion News Roundup

Happy Friday, my little chickadees. Lots of chatter on the Interwebs today about New York Times executive editor Bill Keller’s column on religion and the 2012 presidential campaign. Folks on the right seem to be particularly peeved that he’s only asking questions of GOP candidates. The Jesuits deride the column’s tone. Not to be outdone, […]

Happy Friday, my little chickadees.

Lots of chatter on the Interwebs today about New York Times executive editor Bill Keller’s column on religion and the 2012 presidential campaign. Folks on the right seem to be particularly peeved that he’s only asking questions of GOP candidates. The Jesuits deride the column’s tone.

Not to be outdone, religion beat veteran Jeffrey Weiss (Lo, how I miss the DMN religion blog) has his own column on why it’s legit to ask Mitt Romney questions about Mormonism.


The thought occurs that how bigwigs talk about religion often becomes bigger “news” than religion itself, especially during elections.

Some folks are perturbed that religion has been left out of NYC’s 9/11 memorial ceremony, and the late NYFD fire chaplain Mychal Judge has become an unlikely gay icon.

The Archdiocese of Boston on Thursday published a list of 159 clergy accused of sexual abuse.

The Underwear Bomber wants to be released from federal prison in Michigan and to be judged by the Quran, not the “Rule of Man.”

The man arrested for firebombing an Oregon mosque calls himself a “Christian warrior” bent on avenging a Muslim’s plot to set off a car bomb in Portland last year, the AP reports.

Two young men who say Bishop Eddie Long manipulated them into having sex are speaking out for the first time since settling with him out of court.

The Israeli ambassador to the United States invited dozens of Muslim-Americans to an iftar dinner Thursday night.


Complaints and a request from the archbishop have led a Cincinnati Catholic high school to drop plans for a Ramadan dinner intended to build goodwill with Muslims.

Ramadan-observing American Muslims have suffered with no water or food through one of the hottest U.S. summers on record, Reuters reports.

Mexican Presbyterians broke with the PCUSA over the decision to allow noncelibate gay clergy, and more than 2,000 disaffected PCUSA ministers and lay people kicked off a conference Thursday that they say could lead to a breakaway church.

Hundreds of United Methodists are meeting in Ohio in an uphill bid to make their 12 million-member denomination more gay-friendly.

An openly gay Mormon has been asked to lead an LDS congregation in San Francisco.

Google has cut churches from its nonprofit program.

Here’s hoping Irene settles down somewheres else. Take it away, Willie.

Yr hmbl aggregator,

Daniel Burke

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