Tuesday’s Religion News Roundup

Question of the day: As the tenth anniversary of 9/11 approaches are you: a) Interested in articles that examine American life since the attacks? b) Not interested at all c) Interested, but wary of the limits of remembrance? Regardless, the beat goes on. The LA Times weighs in with a feature on how American Muslims […]

Question of the day: As the tenth anniversary of 9/11 approaches are you:

a) Interested in articles that examine American life since the attacks?

b) Not interested at all


c) Interested, but wary of the limits of remembrance?

Regardless, the beat goes on.

The LA Times weighs in with a feature on how American Muslims have struggled to counter their faith’s association with the deadliest acts of terrorism in the nation’s history. The NYT looks at interfaith relations, post 9/11. NPR profiles the attacks’ first casualty, FDNY chaplain Mychal Judge.

WaPo continues its series on Muslims in America by examining President Obama’s “tepid” efforts to counter negative impressions of Muslim Americans.

The AP reports that the 2012 campaign could be another raucous season for religion and politics.

Five GOP candidates participated in a presidential forum in South Carolina and were grilled by Catholic intellectual Robbie George on whether they would confront SCOTUS over abortion if elected. They were also asked if they would step in to help religious adoption agencies that refuse to place children with gay couples.

Is the NYT biased against religion? Executive Editor Bill Keller kinda/sorta debates that question with a conservative reader.

Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, wrote to the Air Force and urged them to reinstate training materials that use Christian texts to teach Just War theory.

“Bombshell” Bob Smietana has another scoop for the Tennessean: since 1998, conservative Christian lawyer Jay Sekulow’s charities have paid out $33 million to his family and businesses he co-owns. The Sekulows are the only boardmembers of one charity, Smietana reports.

Ireland accused the Vatican of “missing the point” in a weekend statement defending its conduct in the sexual abuse scandals involving priests. In that statement, the Vatican said it had never discouraged Irish bishops from reporting the sexual abuse of minors to the police and dismissed claims that it had undermined efforts to investigate abuse.

At least 14 Nigerians have died in clashes between Muslims and Christians.

Three weeks after a Georgia church was burglarized, an anonymous donor gave it an $80,000 lottery ticket.


Jesus has the most popular Facebook page, more popular even than that mop-top and Lady Gaga.

And what does this tell us, really? Read this and get back to me.

Yr hmbl aggregator,

Daniel Burke

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