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Bruce Nolan
Bruce Nolan writes for the Times-Picayune of New Orleans.
Jews push back against Scouts over policy banning gays
NEW ORLEANS (RNS) For nearly a decade, hundreds of local Boy Scouts have learned the virtues of the Ten Commandments on an annual Thanksgiving holiday hike to churches, synagogues and mosques, wher...
COGIC reinstates bishop after criminal charges dropped
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Toxic drywall puts end to Catholic Katrina program
NEW ORLEANS (RNS) Operation Helping Hands, the Catholic ministry that
employed thousands of volunteers to rebuild nearly 200 homes after...
Young evangelicals split over same-sex marriage
It's not news that young people are more liberal on issues like
same-sex marriage, but a new poll charts just how deeply that split has...
Priest won’t stop push for women’s ordination
The Roman Catholic priest who faces expulsion from the priesthood and
his religious order for advocating for women priests is refusing to
recant and has hired a church lawyer....
All Southern Baptist eyes on black New Orleans pastor
NEW ORLEANS (RNS) Even before the Southern Baptist Convention elected
the Rev. Fred Luter to national office, there was already widespread...
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Scholars chase Bible's changes, one verse at a time
NEW ORLEANS (RNS) Working in a cluster of offices above a LifeWay
Christian Bookstore, Bible scholars are buried in a 20-year project to...
Excommunicated priest now faces expulsion
NEW ORLEANS (RNS) The Rev. Roy Bourgeois, the Louisiana native and peace
activist who was excommunicated three years ago for publicly supporting...
Archbishop wrestles with doubts on school paddling
NEW ORLEANS (RNS) As a high-school student in the mid-1960s, Greg Aymond
occasionally saw an angry teacher cuff a student. It never happened to...
Archdiocese posts trove of slave records online
NEW ORLEANS (RNS) The Archdiocese of New Orleans on Tuesday (Feb. 1)
unveiled a new online database containing records of baptisms, marriages...
Worker's memory plants seeds for trees outside Katrina homes
NEW ORLEANS (RNS) The last time Matt Sloan saw Sylvia Blanchard's
house after he and Episcopal volunteer crews reclaimed it from Hurricane...
Biographer sees continuity between John Paul II, Benedict XVI
NEW ORLEANS (RNS) Five years into the papacy of Benedict XVI, papal
biographer George Weigel is struck by the continuity of mission between...