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‘Ten Commandments Judge’ Roy Moore poised to return to Ala. court

Debbie M. Lord and Brenda Kirby | Mar 14, 2012

MOBILE, Ala. (RNS) With 98 percent of state precincts counted, Roy Moore held on to 51 percent of the vote in his bid to retake his former job as chief justice of the state's supreme court, nearly a decade after he lost the job for refusing to remove a massive Ten Commandments monument. By Debbie M. Lord and Brenda Kirby.
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After angering Catholics, White House honors teachers

Lauren Markoe | Jan 25, 2012

WASHINGTON (RNS) Days after angering Catholics with a new rule that forces religious groups to offer contraceptive coverage, the White House on Wednesday tried to repair relations by honoring nine Catholic educators. By Lauren Markoe.
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Gun-toting Jewish justice: Who knew?!

David Gibson | Oct 20, 2011

From an excellent CNN story on Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan talking about her faith and her freshman year on the high court: She recalled paying a courtesy call on Sen. Benjamin Cardin, D-Maryland, who is a member of Beth Tfiloh, shortly after her nomination to the court by Pr...
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Should Justice Scalia resign?

David Gibson | Sep 30, 2011

Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia is proudly Catholic and proudly conservative, and he knows how to make headlines -- as he did last weekend in a talk at Duquesne University Law School in which he said, among other things: "If I thought that Catholic doctrine held the death penalty to be immoral...
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