Thursday’s Religion News Roundup: Vatican crackdown; Colson update; Kirk Cameron

A two-minute siren sounded across Israel this morning in memory of the six million Jews who perished in the Holocaust. As many news outlets note, the Vatican launched a crackdown on a group of Americans nuns, appointing an archbishop from Seattle to ensure they toe the line on church doctrine. The Vatican also singled out […]

A two-minute siren sounded across Israel this morning in memory of the six million Jews who perished in the Holocaust.

As many news outlets note, the Vatican launched a crackdown on a group of Americans nuns, appointing an archbishop from Seattle to ensure they toe the line on church doctrine. The Vatican also singled out Network, a social justice lobby created by Catholic sisters, which had very publicly bucked the bishops on the 2010 healthcare overhaul. 

As our own David Gibson notes, the crackdown comes as B16 celebrates his seventh anniversary as pontiff, and as he welcomes dissenting traditionalists back to the church. 


Chuck Colson “is still with us,” the DeMoss group reports this morning. 

House Speaker John Boehner, a Catholic, said the bishops of his church should “take a bigger look” at the GOP budget. 

While President Obama maintains a slim edge overall against Mitt Romney, the presumptive GOP nominee holds a huge lead among white evangelicals and Roman Catholics, according to a new poll.

A Catholic priest who headed a Virginia diocese’s child protection office was placed on administrative leave while he is investigated for alleged sexual misconduct with a teenage boy, WaPo reports. 

Southern Baptist stat guru Ed Stetzer criticized SBC politics guru Richard Land (but didn't mention him by name), calling his recent racial comments “unhelpful” and “regrettable.” 

A Hasidic Jew in New York was sentenced to seven years in prison for firebombing a house after a religious dispute. 

Our own Lauren Markoe takes a look at Kirk Cameron's growing pains from teenage heartthrob to Hollywood “freak.”


Thousands of pilgrims are trekking to Germany to see the Holy Robe, which they believe is the garment Jesus wore shortly before his crucifixion. 

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Daniel Burke

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