Video: RNS Editor-in-Chief Kevin Eckstrom talks to CTV News
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Archives: February 2013
Video from The Telegraph: Catholicism’s critics will ‘rejoice at Cardinal O’Brien’s resignation
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Make your picks in the Vatican’s Sweet Sistine brackets!
More than 100 Roman Catholic cardinals will gather in the Sistine Chapel in March. One will emerge as pope. Who will it be? The “Sweet Sistine” is our guess at the top candidates from each continent. First-round voting closes at midnight Eastern on Friday.
Quote of the Day: Sixth-grade football player Caroline Pla
“First they said it was a boy’s sport. Then they said it was a safety issue. Then they said it was inappropriate touching. I think they are just constantly looking for excuses to not change it.” – Sixth-grader Carolina Pla of Bucks County, Pa., who wants to keep playing football at her Catholic school though [...]
Venting and vetting: The brutal side of papal politics
(RNS) If far less expensive and not quite as mind-numbing as a U.S. presidential campaign, the condensed version of papal campaign politics is not much gentler, or necessarily more effective. Instead it can be nasty, brutish and short.
Pope allows cardinals to move up start of papal election
VATICAN CITY (RNS) With three days left before his resignation on Thursday, Pope Benedict XVI on Monday (Feb. 25) allowed cardinals to move up the start of the conclave that will elect his successor.
Fox apologizes for comments on Wiccans at University of Missouri
COLUMBIA, Mo. (RNS) Fox News contributor Tucker Carlson has apologized for comments he made about Wiccans, saying he “should have left them alone.”
Quebec loses status as Canada’s most secular province
TORONTO (RNS) Are Quebecers getting more religious or are other Canadians getting more secular? Either way, Quebec is no longer Canada’s most secular province, according to a new report.
Monday’s Religion News Roundup: Oscar God * O’Brien resigns * Papal politics
Hollywood worships its golden idols. Catholic cardinal resigns over sex allegations. Tim Tebow fumbles.
For aging religious leaders, is it still ’till death us do part’?
(RNS) When aging religious leaders reach the top echelons of temporal and spiritual power, their followers have a certain expectation: Till death us do part. But Pope Benedict XVI’s surprise resignation has shifted that calculus, prompting introspection about when, if and how to let go of religion’s senior management.
