Daniel Burke
Trouble for Mitt Romney? Poll says anti-Mormon bias unchanged since 1967
c. 2012 Religion News Service (RNS) Nearly one in five Americans say they would not vote for a Mormon president, a percentage that has hardly budged since 1967, according to a new Gallup poll.
...Religious groups vie for Internet space in domain name grab
c. 2012 Religion News Service (RNS) Religious groups have long vied for prime parcels of land, planting churches on town squares and monasteries amid isolated mountains....
For Mitt Romney and other Mormons, missions are like a 'refiner's fire'
c. 2012 Religion News Service (RNS) At age 19, Mitt Romney was a typical college student, schmoozing about politics, pulling pranks and sneaking away to see his girlfriend....
Franciscan friars back American nuns in Vatican spat
c. 2012 Religion News Service (RNS) The brothers have come to the sisters' defense. Leaders from the seven Franciscan provinces in the U.S....
With nomination clinched, focus turns to Romney's Mormon faith
c. 2012 Religion News Service (RNS) Mitt Romney clinched the GOP presidential nomination on Tuesday (May 28), becoming the first Mormon selected by a major political party....
Does love last longer in arranged marriages?
c. 2012 Religion News Service NEW YORK (RNS) Elke Thompson and Sam Quinn got engaged the old-fashioned way: their parents arranged it.
...PCUSA unit refuses to rebuke Jane Spahr over same-sex marriages
In an unprecedented act of defiance, a California region of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) has rejected a ruling from a church court to rebuke a pastor who wed same-sex couples....
Methodists maintain policies on sexuality
Despite emotional protests and fierce lobbying from LGBTQ rights groups, United Methodists voted to maintain their denomination’s stance that “the practice of homosexuality is incompatible with Chr...
UMC rejects call to divest from firms selling to Israel
At their General Conference, United Methodists twice rejected resolutions that called for the denomination to divest from companies accused of contributing to the Israeli occupation of Palestinian ...
Why Ross Douthat thinks we're 'a nation of heretics'
c. 2012 Religion News Service (RNS) New York Times columnist Ross Douthat doesn't mince words in his new book Bad Religion: How We Became a Nation of Heretics.
...What did Jesus do on Holy Saturday
c. 2012 Religion News Service
(RNS) Every Christian knows the story: Jesus was crucified on Good Friday and rose from the dead on Easter Sunday. But what did he do on Saturday?
Santorum’s army of homeschoolers
Strapped for cash and paid staff, Rick Santorum has enlisted a ragtag
but politically potent army to keep his campaign afloat: homeschoolers.
Breakaway Anglicans told to return property
A Virginia judge has ordered seven congregations that broke from the
Episcopal Church to return all property to the local diocese—from
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Mitt Romney trouncing Rick Santorum among Catholics
c. 2012 Religion News Service
(RNS) Mitt Romney has trounced Rick Santorum, an ardent Catholic, among
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