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Monday’s Religion News Roundup: Chuck Colson; stunned nuns; subsidiarity

| Apr 23, 2012

Lots of interesting obits and encomia over the weekend for Chuck Colson, the Watergate felon turned evangelical advocate for prisoners.  A church-state watchdog filed a formal complaint with the IRS alleging that the Catholic Diocese of Peoria violated rules barring tax exempt organizations f...
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Friday’s Religion News Roundup: Nuns on the run, Romney at Falwell U., Land’s fall?

| Apr 20, 2012

Nuns on the run? The Vatican’s crackdown on the main leadership organization for women religious continues to generate wide interest, and sympathy for the sisters. The Rev. Jim Martin’s Twitter campaign on their behalf is going viral: #WhatSistersMeanToMe Canon lawyers say the nuns may not...
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Thursday’s Religion News Roundup: Vatican crackdown; Colson update; Kirk Cameron

| Apr 19, 2012

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...
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Wednesday’s Religion News Roundup: Time’s 3 New Yorkers; Richard Land’s 2nd Apology;  Douthat’s many heretics

| Apr 18, 2012

The editors of Time magazine must be in New York State of mind. Three of the four religious figures in Time's top 100 "most influential people" are from the Empire State: Cardinal Timothy Dolan, Jets quarterback Tim Tebow and Knicks point guard Jeremy Lin. The fourth religious leader (and yes...
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Tuesday’s Religion News Roundup: Richard Land, Bible Belt pregnancy and women really are nicer.

| Apr 17, 2012

Some Republicans have a message for Mitt Romney: be more, not less, Mormon. Southern Baptist policy guru Richard Land, already under fire for racially charged remarks in the Trayvon Martin case and then for lifting those remarks from someone else, apologized. But he's also claiming "media bia...
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Monday’s Religion News Roundup: Titanic near-miss, Pope’s passage, Richard Land—plagiarist?

| Apr 16, 2012

Prayer and silence, as well as movie marathons, marked the centenary of the Titanic’s sinking, which resulted in the loss of all but 700 of the 2,208 passengers and crew. A Jesuit seminarian who took famous pictures of the ship as he journeyed on board during the first legs of its maiden voya...
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Friday’s Religion News Roundup: Duggars for Romney, Gay marriage wars, Muslim dirty laundry

| Apr 13, 2012

Catholic parishes in Seattle are saying they won't distribute flyers as part of the campaign to overturn the state's new same-sex marriage law. Are Mormons covertly working to overturn Maryland's same-sex marriage law? One DC gay publication says yes. Sign that the GOP primary slugfest is f...
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Thursday’s Religion News Roundup: Romney’s converts, Mel Gibson’s Maccabee movie, death penalty dying

| Apr 12, 2012

Mitt Romney needs Christian conservatives and this morning he got the endorsement of the Susan B. Anthony List, a prominent pro-life group that had strongly supported Rick Santorum. Another convert to Romneyism, Southern Baptist leader Richard Land, tells CNN the media will make his Mormonism...
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Wednesday’s Religion News Roundup: Mitt & Mormon history; Catholic sex abuse report;  Holocaust violins

| Apr 11, 2012

As you likely know, Rick Santorum quit his campaign yesterday, which means that Mitt Romney is poised to become the first Mormon presidential nominee from a major political party. The SLT reports on the historic outcome and says that some Mormons are bracing for a backlash.   To the conspir...
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Tuesday’s Religion News Roundup: Teen births, Tebow to Bubba, Baylor’s sins

| Apr 10, 2012

Cue the abstinence-birth control debate: teen birth rates are at their lowest levels in almost 70 years. Greater use of contraceptives and lower incidence of sexual activity are cited. The groves of Academe are getting sacred, or are at least studying the sacred a good deal more. But there’...
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