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And now for the rest of the story

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So the Detroit Free Press has a huge article about the Apostolic Visitation of women religious orders here in the United States. What’s that? Well, a year or two ago, the Vatican’s Congregation for Religious ordered a review of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious. That’s the group recently in the news for being involved in the 11th hour endorsement of health care legislation.


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Whack-a-mole: female 'priests' edition

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Last week, I wrote about a perennial GetReligion sport — “fundamentalist” whack-a-mole. The word is often used to describe any old traditional or conservative sect, but we’re forever pointing out “fundamentalist” has a very specific meaning in the context of Christian theology.


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Whispering the F word

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I guess it’s still news to reporters that people go on websites and post comments anonymously. If it’s on the Internet, it must be true, right? The xkcd cartoon on the right sums up the reality of the Internet: there’s always something to be fixed.


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5Q+1: Julia Duin and her times

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Sunday is the much-overlooked Christian feast of Pentecost and we live in an era in which the global rise of Pentecostalism is simply — this cannot be debated — one of the most important religion stories of our time. Ask the experts at the Pew Forum on the Religion & Public Life.


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