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(RNS) Penn State coaching legend Joe Paterno is out in the university's burgeoning sex abuse scandal, and comparisons to the Roman Catholic Church's own abuse scandals are in.

Is legalized abortion akin to the Nazi Holocaust? The analogy is a
standard talking point among abortion opponents, and a new half-hour
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An unusual public dispute is brewing between Washington Cardinal
Donald Wuerl and a feminist theologian who essentially accused Wuerl of
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NEW YORK (RNS) Can an Anglican theologian from Britain revive an
80-year-old Catholic social justice theory and provide a solution to
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(RNS) U.S. Catholic bishops, concerned about Obama administration
policies on birth control and gay rights that they say see as an
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(RNS) Is Catholic opposition to the death penalty losing traction as
opposition to abortion, gay marriage, contraception and other causes
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Back in 1905, Max Weber's landmark treatise, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, ar­gued that a Calvinist belief in God's plan for the saved was crucial to the rise of c...

(RNS) A leading Catholic anti-abortion group whose leader is under
scrutiny for failing to disclose financial details reported a $1.4
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NEW YORK (RNS) The nation's top Catholic bishop issued a stern challenge
to the Obama administration's decision not to support a federal ban on
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(RNS) Just days after prominent anti-abortion activist Rev. Frank Pavone
was ordered to suspend his work as head of Priests for Life, Pavone and
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NEW YORK (RNS) One of the highest profile anti-abortion activists in the
Catholic Church in the United States says he will abide by but appeal a
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Every four years, the U.S. Catholic bishops publish a detailed
statement about how Catholics should think about key political issues in
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NEW YORK (RNS) Convincing the famously stubborn Mayor Michael Bloomberg
to change his mind could require a minor miracle, but critics hope
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(RNS) The shock of the 9/11 attacks was so great, and the personal
losses so deep, that many people understandably sought simple answers
for such overwhelming malevolence.

(RNS) The earthquake that rumbled up the East Coast from Virginia on
Tuesday (Aug. 23) "significantly damaged" the central tower of
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(RNS) Sending a small band of young people to talk about condoms at
orld Youth Day, the triennial Catholic jamboree that opens in Madrid on
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(RNS) A Roman Catholic priest who has campaigned for the ordination of
women has been told he will be expelled from his religious order if he
does not publicly recant.

(RNS) The Obama administration is taking heat from religious groups,
particularly Catholic leaders, upset that new federal health regulations
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NEW YORK (RNS) The principal of a Catholic grade school in the Bronx
that serves mainly black and Latino students has been fired after his
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(RNS) For many Americans, nothing is as exciting as an impending
apocalypse, except perhaps for the thrill of waking up the next day and
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