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March 22, 2013 - USA Today
USA Today: Support grows in Vermont for an end-of-life bill
Dick and Ginny Walters envision a new approach to dying for Vermont residents: They want terminally ill patients with a prognosis of less than six months to live to have the right to request and take life-ending medication.
March 22, 2013 - The New York Times
NYT: Pope appeals for more interreligious dialogue
Pope Francis appealed for more intense dialogue with Islam on Friday, while calling on church leaders to renew diplomatic discourse with countries that do not have official ties with the Holy See, like China.
March 21, 2013 - The New York Times
NYT: Colorado approves same-sex unions
With a stroke of the governor’s pen, Colorado on Thursday legalized civil unions for same-sex couples, a major shift for a Western state where voters outlawed same-sex marriages in 2006.
March 21, 2013 - The New York Times
NYT: Setting themes of humility, a new archbishop of Canterbury is installed
At his installation as archbishop of Canterbury on Thursday, Justin Welby, a former oil executive who made an unusually rapid rise to the leadership of the Anglican Church, used the ceremony in Canterbury’s nine-century-old cathedral to set themes of simplicity, modesty and innovation that echoed the tone Pope Francis has set for his week-old papacy.
March 20, 2013 - The Los Angeles Times
LA Times: Obama message may not resonate with Israeli youth
By choosing to deliver his landmark speech to Israel in an auditorium filled with students and young people, President Obama is once again turning to a core audience that has always been responsive to his message of hope and change.
March 20, 2013 - The Christian Science Monitor
CS Monitor: Northern Nigerians adapt to life under the gun of Islamist militants
Two suicide bombers attacked a bus station in a mostly-Christian suburb of Kano, Nigeria on Monday, killing at least 41 and injuring an additional 44.
March 20, 2013 - The New York Times
NYT: Young opponents of gay marriage undaunted by battle ahead
They hear that their cause is lost, that demographics and the march of history have doomed their campaign to keep marriage only between a man and a woman. But the young conservatives who oppose same-sex marriage — unlike most of their generation — remain undaunted.
March 20, 2013 - The Washington Post
Wash. Post: U.S. ambassador’s post to the Vatican remains unfilled
Vice President Biden attended Tuesday’s installation of Pope Francis at the Vatican. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi did, too, along with other lawmakers.
March 20, 2013 - The Washington Post
Wash. Post: Religious conservatives make moral case for immigration reform
Advocates of a far-reaching overhaul of the nation’s immigration system are hoping to use their allies on the religious right to prod the Republican Party to embrace reform.
March 18, 2013 - The New York Times
NYT: Vatican's bureaucracy tests even the infallible
An Italian industrialist tried to curry favor by donating $100,000 worth of truffles.
March 18, 2013 - The Associated Press
AP: Clinton’s embrace of gay marriage joins other Dems for 2016, but issue remains divisive in GOP
Hillary Rodham Clinton’s embrace of gay marriage Monday signals she may be seriously weighing a 2016 presidential run and trying to avoid the type of late-to-the-party caution that hurt her first bid.
March 18, 2013 - The Associated Press
AP: Orthodox patriarch attends pope’s installation in Rome, other faiths hopeful for improved ties
Bartholomew I, the spiritual leader of the world’s Orthodox Christians, will attend Pope Francis’ installation Mass — the first time a patriarch from the Istanbul-based church has attended a papal investiture since the two branches of Christianity split nearly 1,000 years ago.
March 18, 2013 - The Salt Lake Tribune
Salt Lake Tribune: Will new pope affect Mormon, Pentecostal growth in South America?
The race for Latin American souls intensified this week with the naming of a new Catholic team captain: Pope Francis.
March 18, 2013 - The Miami Herald
Miami Herald: Argentina's Jewish community celebrate Pope Francis
Tucked into an alcove of Argentina’s National Cathedral, right beside an icon of the Virgin of Luján, is a wall of yellowed documents written in delicate Hebrew. The pages were rescued from the death camps of Auschwitz, the ruins of Berlin’s synagogue and the remains of this city’s Jewish community center.
March 17, 2013 - National Public Radio
NPR: Mormons change references to blacks, polygamy
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints released this week the most significant changes to its scripture since 1981.
March 17, 2013 - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: New pope puts Jesuit order in the spotlight
Walk along the campus of Marquette University and you will see, etched into the cornerstones of its buildings, the letters A.M.D.G.
March 17, 2013 - The Chicago Tribune
Chicago Tribune: Catholic Church works to keep up with growing Latino membership
The sparsely attended Friday morning Mass at St. Bartholomew Parish Catholic Church was in English, and Amparo Lara, more comfortable with Spanish, struggled to understand the homily that urged parishioners to see Jesus with eyes of faith.
March 17, 2013 - The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Pitt. Post-Gazette: Pope Francis has good record with other faiths
As Pope Francis begins to lead the worldwide Catholic Church, accolades are pouring in from people of other traditions who knew him as Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio in Argentina.
March 17, 2013 - The Telegraph
Telegraph: Why the new Archbishop needs more than prayers to unite his flock
She couldn’t help herself. “Oh my God!” said a shopper at Borough Market as a short, neat man in spectacles approached through the throng. “It’s the Archbishop of Canterbury!”
March 16, 2013 - The Associated Press
AP: Striking divide between Democrats and Republicans in gay marriage cases at Supreme Court
No Democratic attorney general in a state that prohibits same-sex couples from marrying has signed onto a legal filing asking the Supreme Court to uphold California’s constitutional ban on gay marriage.
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