Wednesday’s Religion News Roundup: Romney wins Iowa; Pat Robertson’s secret; Catholic bishops’ kids

Admit it: You skipped the Iowa caucuses last night and watched Ted Haggard on “Wife Swap.” That's okay, we have your back. Here's what you missed. Mitt Romney beat Rick Santorum by less than half a Duggar family. If only they had 8 more kids! By 2016 Santorum should be golden. Sorry, Rick, you're […]

 

Admit it: You skipped the Iowa caucuses last night and watched Ted Haggard on “Wife Swap.”

That's okay, we have your back. Here's what you missed.


Mitt Romney beat Rick Santorum by less than half a Duggar family. If only they had 8 more kids! By 2016 Santorum should be golden.

Sorry, Rick, you're still not the Catholic story of the day. That would be Los Angeles Auxiliary Bishop Gabino Zavala handing his resignation to the Vatican after admitting that he's fathered two teenage children. Details are still sketchy.

Back to Iowa, Mark Silk breaks the numbers down and finds that evangelicals constituted 57 percent of the caucus voters, and a third of them voted for Santorum. Romney's support among evangelicals, meanwhile, dropped by nearly a third, down to 14 percent, which means he still has an anti-Mormon problem, Silk concludes.

Ralph Reed says the fact that 60 percent of evangelicals voted for a Mormon or Catholic candidate proves that they “are a more sophisticated bunch” than most journos give them credit for.

Michele Bachmann, who placed next-to-last, and Rick Perry, who garnered just 10 percent of the vote, are reportedly reassessing their campaigns, and may have quit by the time you read this roundup.

Pat Robertson says God told him who the next president will be “but I'm not supposed to talk about that so I'll leave you in the dark.” Maybe someone from the new National Atheist Party?

White House faith-based guru Joshua DuBois is in the First State to watch Gov. Markell create a new nine-member Delaware Council of Faith-Based Partnerships.

House Majority Leader Eric Cantor says the Jewish tendency to vote Democratic is the bane of his existence.


The new Catholic diocese for disaffected Episcopalians went live Jan. 1.

The last Catholic school in the U.S. to practice corporal punishment finally agreed to lay down its paddles. Knuckles and backsides rejoiced.

An NFL football player trash-talked to Tim Tebow, saying God helped the evangelical quarterback eke out narrow victories and sneak his team into the playoffs. “We don't need God on our sidelines,” boasted Terrell Suggs.

I guess Suggs won't be wearing eye-black inscribed with this verse.

The New Yorker who firebombed several buildings – including a mosque – was settling scores for perceived slights, including a dispute over using the mosque's bathroom, the NYT reports.

Samoan Jews should keep the Sabbath for 49 hours because the Pacific island's unique place on the international dateline, according to a rabbinic opinion.

Yr hmbl aggregator,

Daniel Burke

 

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