Archbishop Charles Chaput — Fortnight for Freedom Closing Homily from Rocco Palmo on Vimeo.
On blogging, religious liberty and 'bell-ringing homilies'
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Where's the 'why' in Memphis story?
Regular GetReligion reader MJBubba sent along a link to a Memphis Commercial Appeal story on the one-year anniversary of a police officer’s slaying.
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Credulity, chutzpah and Catholic battles
In recent weeks we’ve looked at some of the stories the mainstream press has done, using the theme provided by a progressive, George Soros-funded public relations firm called Faith in Public Life. That theme, of course, is that Catholic bishops, by working to reclaim certain religious freedoms, are being “too political” and, worse.
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Pod people: Why can't folks get Obama's faith?
For the life of me, I cannot understand why so many Americans struggle to understand that President Barack Obama is a perfectly ordinary liberal Protestant Christian.
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Late nominee for worst story on Catholic battles
It’s not just the national media outlets that struggle to report on religious liberty issues without hackery. Some regional outlets share that struggle.
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What's wrong with Liberation Theology?
Liberal Catholics have scored a major coup at the Vatican, the Guardian reports as a defender of âliberation theologistsâ and former student of Gustavo Gutiérrez has been appointed head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith at the Vatican.
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Religion ghost? RIP Andy Griffith
More than a decade ago, while serving as religion editor for The Oklahoman, I visited Andy Griffith’s television hometown and wrote a column about it:
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That strange AP story about a fired Slovak bishop
So what’s up with the Associated Press, all of a sudden? It used to be rare to read an AP report that totally needed an “analysis” label, but now it seems that these stories pop up all of the time.
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Mormons who quit the LDS church
A few years ago, I covered an Atheist de-baptism ceremony where de-converts would blow dry their hair, attempting to reverse whatever they thought baptism meant. It was unclear how many of the few hundred officially renounced a formal membership where they had to do something specific to formally part ways, since it looked more like an excuse for a party.
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