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Kamala Harris’ narrow and sadly common view of the Knights of Columbus
Many Catholics have questions about Senator Harris’s record on religious freedom.
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Joe Biden’s friend Sen. Coons to elevate faith on Democratic convention stage
When Coons speaks to the Democratic National Convention on Thursday before Biden’s speech accepting the party’s presidential nomination, his remarks will focus on faith — attesting in highly personal fashion to his longtime friend’s belief in God.
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Trump said Biden would ‘Hurt God.’ Hamilton said similar things about Jefferson.
The precedent for attacking an opponent on religious grounds is more apt than you might think.
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Survey shows wide support among Americans for COVID-19 worship restrictions
A recent Pew survey shows that Americans favor restrictions when it comes to worship services during the pandemic.
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Concerns raised over restrictions’ long-term impact on spiritual health
Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone of San Francisco is worried about the spiritual health of people during the pandemic and is urging priests to continue addressing their flock’s spiritual well-being as best they can.
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French police arrest cathedral volunteer who confessed to Nantes fire
French media reported the 39-year-old man, named only as Emmanuel A, admitted lighting two fires in the area of a 17th-century organ and a third above an electrical panel in the Cathedral of Sts. Peter and Paul July 18 and a third above an electrical panel.
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Scott Cairn’s poetry of immanence
Cairns is a rare figure in American letters: a religious poet free of mawkish piety.
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Don’t ‘blackmail’ kids into coming to church, archbishop says
Archbishop Rino Fisichella, president of the Pontifical Council for Promoting New Evangelization, has said that catechesis is a process in leading young people to a personal relationship with Jesus.
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Where can we find God during a modern-day plague?
In the 20th and 21st centuries, many theologians have been rethinking how we imagine God in the light of revelations of evolution and the revolutionary realizations of spacetime and quantum mechanics. It’s time for us to catch up.