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It takes a tremendous amount of delicacy and tact to pull off a movie about 9/11 without making the audience feel it's been strong-armed. Stephen Daldry's Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, based on the Jonathan Safran Foer novel of the same name, puts you through the wringer.

Last month’s bank settlement was little more than a slap on the wrist. But Americans are finding ways to hold banks accountable.

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The gospel reading this week tells the poignant story of the nameless woman's anointing of Jesus at the house of Simon the Leper....

Who would have thought that contraception would become such a major issue in this election year? Or is it? The U.S. Catholic bishops stress that the issue is not really contraception but religious liberty--the right of Catholics, and by extension any group of religious people, to practice and live out their faith. That's a plausible argument, as the Century editors acknowledged a few weeks ago, and it is certainly one designed to gain allies among other religious people.

New today from the Century: Holding banks accountable, the conversation the bishops aren't having, more.

As I've said before, the objectivity-fetishizing conventions of straight news reporting make me crazy. It's not just the odd philosophical throwback of implying that reporters can somehow avoid writing as particular people situated in particular contexts. It's also the convoluted copy, in which even plain facts can't be stated plainly if they happen to be unpopular. So I was glad when NPR released its new ethics handbook, in which among other things the network states that it favors "truth" over "the appearance of balance" and adds that "if the balance of evidence in a matter of controversy weighs heavily on one side, we acknowledge it in our reports."

Oslo (ENInews)--Major steps toward the dis-establishment of Norway's state church, the (Lutheran) Church of Norway, were passed by the...

(ENInews)--Thousands of Egyptians are mourning the death of Pope Shenouda III, the longtime leader of the Coptic Orthodox Church, who died March 17 at the age of 88....

While Suzanne Collins’s trilogy does not have overt Christian themes, it does offer a social vision familiar to Christians.

The Obama administration is offering to expand the number of faith-based groups that can be exempt from the controversial...

Among the most stimulating books I've read recently is Samuel Wells's Be Not Afraid, from which I picked up the phrase repeated several times in my current lectionary columns for the Century: "What's God up to?" This is the question that counts.

New today from the Century: Life and death in The Hunger Games, faith formed in the midst of betrayal, more.

c. 2012 Religion News Service (RNS) Last Sunday (March 11), Pastor Sheila Schuller Coleman appeared for apparently the last time before some 800 people at the morning service of...

c. 2012 Religion News Service (RNS) The nation's Catholic bishops have again voiced doubts about the...

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c. 2012 Religion News Service (RNS) Making up half of Republican primary voters, evangelicals appear to be turning out to support Rick Santorum's resurgent campaign in record...

When Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams announced suddenly in mid-March that he will step down at the end of 2012, a short list of...

Our pastor had an affair and confessed it in his sermon. He stood up in front of the church and let the gathered members know that he had succumbed to temptation, but he was ready to just "move on."