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April 08, 2013 - The Associated Press
AP: Evangelicals push immigration path
Senior pastor Kenton Beshore said the first sermons on the plight of illegal immigrants didn't go over well with many members of his evangelical church, which sits on a 50-acre campus in Orange County and has a 3,400-seat sanctuary, sports facilities, restaurant and a man-made lake.
April 03, 2013 - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Post-Gazette: Pope Francis, a pleasant surprise
Many American Roman Catholics would like to see their church change.
April 03, 2013 - CBS
CBS: Dolan: Pope Francis "a shot in the arm" for Catholic Church
Cardinal Timothy Dolan discusses the recent installation of Pope Francis and what the new papacy means for the Catholic Church and its future.
April 03, 2013 - AFP
AFP: New pope wins over US Catholics: poll
His papacy has hardly begun, but 84 percent of Roman Catholics in the United States have a favorable view of Pope Francis, according to a Pew Research Center poll released Wednesday.
April 02, 2013 - The Houston Chronicle
Houston Chronicle: Evangelicals push reform in immigration law
Entrepreneurs and evangelicals from across the state are stepping up pressure on Texas legislators they fear could stand in the way of comprehensive immigration reform.
April 01, 2013 - The Huffington Post
Huff Post: How Many U.S. Christians Believe Christ's 'Second Coming' Will Happen Soon? More Than You May Think (SURVEY)
Chocolate eggs and basket-carrying bunnies aside, Easter is a day when Christians the world over celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ.
April 01, 2013 - National Post
National Post: Graphic: Christianity then and now
More than 30% of the world’s population — 2.2 billion people — are Christian, according to a major religious survey.
March 30, 2013 - CNN
CNN: At evangelical colleges, a shifting attitude toward gay students
Combing through prayer requests in a Wheaton College chapel in 2010, then-junior Benjamin Matthews decided to do something “absurdly unsafe.”
March 26, 2013 - The Washington Post
Wash. Post: Whatever the Supreme Court decides, these nine charts show gay marriage is winning
Today, the Supreme Court opens two days of oral arguments on whether the right to marriage extends to same-sex couples.
March 26, 2013 - The Washington Post
Wash. Post: States are cracking down on abortion—and legalizing gay marriage. What gives?
Tuesday marked for a watershed day for gay rights activists as the Supreme Court heard oral arguments on a case with the potential to legalize same-sex marriage across the country.
March 19, 2013 - The Washington Post
Wash. Post: Traditional Catholics key in on signs of pope’s worship style
Austin Lipari watched clips of Pope Francis’s inaugural Mass on Tuesday like a detective spotting clues.
March 18, 2013 - USA Today
USA Today: U.S. Catholics happy with Francis choice
U.S. Catholics overwhelmingly like the selection of Pope Francis as the new leader of the Roman Catholic Church, a poll released Monday finds.
March 15, 2013 - The Wall Street Journal
WSJ: In Latin America, Catholics see a lift
The choice of a Latin American to lead the globe's 1.2 billion Catholics stands to reinvigorate the church in its Latin American stronghold, helping it fight off growing inroads from Protestant evangelicals and raising its profile on controversial social issues like gay marriage and abortion.
March 12, 2013 - NPR
NPR: What American Catholics want from the next pontiff
Awaiting the white smoke from the Sistine Chapel are many of the 75 million Catholics in the U.S., and the question comes up, what do American Catholics want to see in the next pope?
March 12, 2013 - New York Magazine
NY Mag.: Papal conclave cheat sheet: how to pick a pope, by the numbers
The esoteric "Election of the Supreme Pontiff" begins today in the Vatican as the princes of the Catholic Church convene to select a new leader.
March 11, 2013 - The Washington Post
Wash. Post: Geography of the conclave: Who picks the pope, in one map
Tuesday’s papal conclave has some people speculating that the next pope could, for the first time, hail from a continent that isn’t Europe.
March 11, 2013 - The Los Angeles Times
LA Times: Roman Catholic Church feels Europe slipping from its hands
The timing said it all.
March 08, 2013 - The Wall Street Journal
WSJ: Some church folk ask: ‘What would Jesus brew?’
As several of the faithful from the Valley Church here prepared to bow their heads in prayer to open a recent Saturday-evening meeting, they introduced themselves.
March 05, 2013 - USA Today
USA Today: Who can lead the Catholic world now?
Most of the world's billion Catholics live in Latin America, Africa and Asia now so the issues that dominate debate in the USA and Europe may not shape the papal election next month.
March 02, 2013 - The Economist
Economist: Growing, and neglected
IT TELLS you something hopeful perhaps that, for all the horror unleashed when two bombs laid by presumed militant Islamists ripped through a crowd in Hyderabad on February 21st, India’s public response has been muted.
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