(RNS) As SCOTUS prepares to take up two gay marriage cases this week, Focus on the Family president Jim Daly says homosexuality isn’t some kind of “super sin,” but gay marriage is nonetheless “outside of God’s design for human sexuality.”
Our own Michael O’Loughlin reports that Missouri Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill is coming out in support of gay marriage, in part because of her faith.
A federal court — like 15 other courts before it in similar cases — ruled that Franciscan University of Steubenville’s challenge to the Obama administration’s contraception mandate is premature.
Pope Francis, the first Latin American pope, is neither fully Latino nor fully Italian. Discuss.
Francis met his predecessor, B16, at Castel Gandolfo on Saturday and said the two are “brothers” in arms.
Francis celebrated his first Palm Sunday as pope in St. Peter’s Square, and his propensity to jump out of his open-topped popemobile is sending his security detail into fits.
Bill Maher (surprise, surprise) isn’t a fan of the new pope: “He’s a 76-year-old executive who just got a promotion. You act like he’s a baby who just made a boom-boom.”
Maybe that’s what our own David Gibson had in mind when he wondered how long the pope’s honeymoon would last.
POTUS and FLOTUS and the rest of the Obama clan will mark Passover tonight at the White House — and no, that’s not manna falling on the ground in Washington; it’s snow. Wonder if they’re serving matzo granola.
You’ve got one more week to catch the end of “The Bible” series on The History Channel, and you might learn something: some 69% of viewers said they learned something new, according to a new Barna survey.
Justin Welby, the new Archbishop of Canterbury (or ABC, if you’re into acronyms like we are) says his tenure will focus on “reconciliation,” but not “fuzzy-wuzzy” agreement where everyone pretends to get along.
Remember the Orthodox Israeli girl who was suspended for singing on an Israeli version of American Idol? She lost in the final round.
Omid Safi mourns the loss of Shaykh Muhammad Sa’id Ramadan al-Bouti, Syria’s most senior Muslim cleric, who was killed in a bomb blash on Thursday.
Quasimodo has a new set of bells at Notre Dame in Paris, and hopefully the new ones won’t turn him deaf.
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4 Comments
Kevan Scott
Just what did those people learn from the History channel Bible series.? I know what I learned. 1. It was so full of inconsisties as to be laughable. 2. The propaganda value was off thhe charts with the filmaker having Satan mysteriously look like the President. 3. If there are those who said they learned anything from this pitiful attempt at a factual account of the Bible then they must have never read the thing or else they would have realized pretty quickly, as in the first 15 min.’s just how bad it was. 4. If this film is to be held as an example of what the history channel documents as history then the history channel is just plain not worth watching.
William E. Norman
I have to agree with Kevan. The first episode turned me off. If anyone learned anything, they must never have read the Bible at all.
And they will have no way of knowing what was jumped over.
I have become skeptical of all attempts to portray the Bible, ESPECIALLY a broad sweep approach. Better to stick with the life of one character.
Jack Gordon
McCaskill’s “faith” was the motivation? Please. Does this woman think we are stupid as well as ill-instructed in the faith, at least as ill-instructed as she clearly is? She is a self-serving pol like all the rest of them in Washington with not the least respect for any religion beyond her owns self-glorification. What a bore.
Kathleen Hass
My Bible study groups have been watching THE BIBLE series and were distressed to watch the Baptism of Jesus by John the Baptist – and no dove appeared, nor were words from God the Father heard. It is not helpful to skip so quickly through such an important book that I feel a person’s time would be better spent reading it thoughtfully. I also looked at the Barna survey mentioned above and wonder what in the world are the “Mosaics” counted in the survey?