Religion News on the Web
Selected religion-related news from around the Web
March 23, 2013
- The New York Times
NYT: Shadow of Roe v. Wade looms over ruling on gay marriage
When the Supreme Court hears a pair of cases on same-sex marriage on Tuesday and Wednesday, the justices will be working in the shadow of a 40-year-old decision on another subject entirely: Roe v. Wade, the 1973 ruling that established a constitutional right to abortion.
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 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 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.