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October 24, 2011 - National Catholic Reporter
Catholic Reporter: New survey offers portrait of U.S. Catholics
Our research team has now carried out the fifth survey of American Catholics.
October 24, 2011 - National Catholic Reporter
Catholic Reporter: What is core to American Catholics in 2011
The term “cafeteria Catholic” has been used for many years to refer to the fact that Catholics tend to selectively prioritize certain aspects of Catholic theology and tradition while seeing other strands as comparatively less important to the practice of Catholicism.
October 21, 2011 - Time
Time: The de facto religious test in presidential politics
Officially, the United States has no religious test for elected officials.
October 20, 2011 - The Houston Chronicle
Houston Chronicle: Faith and science: Can we find common ground?
Faith and science. For centuries, the two domains have intersected, diverged, conflicted and co-existed.
October 19, 2011 - The Washington Post
Wash. Post: Mitt Romney takes on Mormon ‘cult’ comments and the religious test for office
It was only a few seconds, but at Tuesday night’s debate, Republican presidential hopeful (and Mormon) Mitt Romney gave some of his most extensive religious comments yet of the 2012 presidential campaign, saying, “That idea that we should choose people based on their religion is the one that I find to be most troubling.”
October 19, 2011 - NPR
NPR: U.S. Hispanics choose churches outside Catholicism
As their numbers grow, Latinos are not only changing where and how they worship; they're also beginning to affect the larger Christian faith.
October 19, 2011 - The Huffington Post
Huff. Post: Muslim scholars issue fatwa declaring no conflict between Islamic law and U.S. Constitution
Islamic scholars tired of conservative charges that Muslims in the United States constitute a radical fifth column bent on subverting American values and obligated by their religion to launch jihadist terror attacks are fighting back by issuing a fatwa.
October 19, 2011 - Catholic Culture
Catholic Culture: Needed: a sense of urgency about religious freedom in US foreign policy
Not a single Christian church remains standing in Afghanistan.
October 19, 2011 - The Jewish Week
Jewish Week: Examining America's religious landscape
The Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life survey of the American Religious Landscape is more than three years old and, because of its size and cost, won't be updated for another two years, but it remains an important reference source and worth taking a look at.
October 18, 2011 - ABC News
ABC News: Is the Tea Party a Religious Movement? ‘Anthem’ Invokes God, Judgment Day
If there’s an anthem for the Tea Party, it’s Krista Branch’s song “I am America,” her fans say.
October 17, 2011 - The Boston Globe
Boston Globe: Nonbelievers striving for humanist connections
On a recent Sunday, as millions of Americans met to celebrate their belief in God, 18 people met in Harvard Square to celebrate their lack of religious conviction.
October 14, 2011 - CNN
CNN: Pray for the President? Yes thou shalt
Republican presidential contender Rick Perry recently urged social conservatives to pray for President Barack Obama.
October 11, 2011 - The Wall Street Journal
WSJ: The cult of anti-Mormonism
Here's some advice for Republican candidates appearing at Tuesday's presidential debate at Dartmouth College.
October 09, 2011 - The Heritage Foundation
Heritage Foundation: Religious freedom and a pastor in Iran
The world recognized an international symbol of the hunger for political freedom in the summer of 2009 when a young Iranian woman, Neda Agha-Soltan, was fatally shot during the Tehran uprising.
October 07, 2011 - The Chicago Tribune
Chicago Tribune: Naperville not putting out welcome mat for Islamic religious center
For years, HOPE United Church of Christ advertised on its front lawn plans to build a church on 14 acres it owned just southwest of Naperville, and the minister there says he never heard so much as a peep of displeasure.
October 06, 2011 - The Columbus Dispatch
Columbus Dispatch: Top court may alter religious-employment law
The Supreme Court heard arguments yesterday in a case that could change how religious institutions hire and fire people.
October 06, 2011 - The Associated Press
AP: An Interview with David Masci About the Ministerial Exception
AP Radio Religion Editor Steve Coleman talks to Senior Researcher David Masci about a Supreme Court case involving a legal doctrine known as the "ministerial exception."
October 04, 2011 - The Christian Post
Christian Post: Joel Osteen on CNN: I Could Vote for a Muslim or Jewish President
Joel Osteen offers a strong statement of support for the Israeli people in an interview with CNN's Pierce Morgan Tuesday night, in which the Lakewood Church pastor also discusses whether he would vote for a Jewish or Muslim presidential candidate.
October 01, 2011 - First Things
First Things: Whither marriage?

Proponents of same-sex marriage frame their cause in terms of civil rights. There are no significant moral or cultural differences between homosexual couples and heterosexual couples, they presume, and therefore limiting marriage to heterosexual couples amounts to discrimination.

October 01, 2011 - The Christian Post
Christian Post: Supreme Court to hear case on church authority, hiring rights
One of the most important religious cases disputed in years, involving the separation of church and state, will soon come before the U.S. Supreme Court.
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