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Nuns on the Bus stop in Apopka today to press for immigration reform
“Nuns on the Bus” -- a group of Catholic Sisters on a 15-state bus tour -- are bringing their campaign for immigration reform to the Hope Community Center, 1016 N Park Ave., Apopka, at 4 p.m. today, June 3. On Sunday, June 2, the bus stopped...
Tags: U.S. Congress, Politics, Christianity, Migration, Religion and Belief
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Churches split on Scouts' welcoming of gay youth
In suburban Atlanta, northern Idaho and a number of other places, churches have moved swiftly to sever ties with the Boy Scouts of America in protest over the vote last month to let openly gay boys participate in Scouting. To date, it's far from the...
Tags: Education, Youth Organizations, Baptist, Christianity, Religion and Belief
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Andrew Greeley, priest, scholar, novelist, friend, laid to rest
His final farewell unfolded as if he had choreographed every song and step. With people in the pews belting out the Celtic hymn "Lord of the Dance," the Rev. Andrew Greeley was carried out of Christ the King Roman Catholic Church in Chicago's Beverly...
Tags: Anne M. Burke, Christianity, Illinois Supreme Court, Religion and Belief, University of Chicago
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Boy Scouts' vote to allow openly gay members, but not leaders, ending century-long ban
The Boy Scouts of America approved a historic policy shift Thursday, allowing gay youths as members for the first time in the organization's 100-year history. But the highly anticipated vote by 1,400 members of the Scouts' executive committee stopped...
Tags: Youth Organizations, Rick Perry, Ted Cruz, Molly Hennessy-Fiske, Christianity
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Mailbag: Another side of the man killed in explosion
Re. "Records: Man killed in bomb blast had lab equipment," (May 1): Get the facts right! The white powder was flour. He was upset with Pillsbury. We found notes he had written to them complaining about the packaging, etc. The liquid was water. He had...Tags: Social Issues, Emergency Incidents, Christianity, Explosions, Abortion
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Mailbag: Balboa Island story left out link to global warming
Re. "Flood risk: Bane of Balboa Island's existence," (May 5): I was surprised no mention was made of the reason the Federal Emergency Management Agency revised its flood maps — global warming. FEMA's conservative estimate of sea rise, according to...Tags: Christianity, Religion and Belief, Abortion, Environmental Issues, Hospitals and Clinics
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Banned priest not monitored
WHITLEY CITY, Ky. — Five years after church officials ordered the Rev. Carroll Howlin to stop functioning as a missionary priest in this isolated mountain community, Joliet diocesan leaders received a letter from a suburban pastor that illuminated...
Tags: Sexual Misconduct, Christianity, Crime, Law and Justice, Sex Crimes, Prosecution
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U.S. judge widens 'morning-after' pill access for young girls
ReutersNEW YORK (Reuters) - A federal judge on Friday ordered the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to make "morning-after" emergency contraception pills available without a prescription to all girls of reproductive age and criticized the Obama administration...Tags: Justice System, Chemical Industry, Kathleen Sebelius, American Academy of Pediatrics, Crime, Law and Justice
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Report: Some Catholic faithful disagree with bishops about gun control
Orlando SentinelAlthough U.S. Roman Catholic bishops have stepped into the national conversation about guns with statements and testimony before Congess in favor of gun control, some members of their flock aren't quite so sure. Religion News Service reports that some...Tags: Politics, Barack Obama, Christianity, Personal Weapon Control, Religion and Belief
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Priest cases show abuse issues persist
When Will County sheriff's deputies found the Rev. William Virtue sneaking into a private quarry in 1986, police records state that the Roman Catholic priest had blankets, two six packs of beer and a 10-year-old boy with him. He fled on foot when officers...Tags: Justice System, Defendants, Christianity, Crime, Law and Justice, Religion and Belief
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Joliet Diocese did not detail priest's past, hospital says
The Joliet Diocese acknowledges church officials allowed a Roman Catholic priest to serve as a hospital chaplain even though the bishop declared him unfit for parish ministry because of "inappropriate behavior" with a boy years earlier. The Rev....
Tags: Sexual Misconduct, Punishment, Roman Catholic Sex Abuse Scandal, Christianity, Sex Crimes
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A softening in the Catholic line on gays?
An old friend, a graduate of a Jesuit high school, called my attention to this story about the decision by McQuaid Jesuit High School in Brighton, N.Y. , to allow two gay students to attend the school’s Junior Ball as a couple. My friend...Tags: Marriage, Social Issues, Christianity, Religion and Belief, Family
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Apr 11, 2013
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Apr 2, 2013
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