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Michael J. O’Loughlin is national correspondent at America and author of Hidden Mercy: AIDS, Catholics, and the Untold Stories of Compassion in the Face of Fear.
In All Things
Michael J. O’Loughlin
The BBC reports on the phenomeon of the swiftly growing Christian churches in China It is impossible to say how many Christians there are in China today but no-one denies the numbers are exploding The government says 25 million 18 million Protestants and six million Catholics Independent estima
In All Things
Michael J. O’Loughlin
The BBC reports on the phenomeon of the swiftly growing Christian churches in China It is impossible to say how many Christians there are in China today but no-one denies the numbers are exploding The government says 25 million 18 million Protestants and six million Catholics Independent estima
In All Things
Michael J. O’Loughlin
NPR profiles Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta a Washington veteran who has served in Congress and who was most recently head of the CIA Panetta cites his Catholic faith as something that helps to inform his life-and-death decisions For the past two years Leon Panetta was at the center of the U
In All Things
Michael J. O’Loughlin
It seems hard to believe but it was only a couple months ago that celebrity Donald Trump was flirting with running for the GOP nomination for president when he was thoroughly humiliated by President Obama at the White House Correspondent s Dinner ldquo For example ndash no seriously ndash rec
In All Things
Michael J. O’Loughlin
The great Protestant theologian Karl Barth is purported to have said A preacher needs a newspaper in one hand and a Bible inthe other As someone who dabbles in both news and theology I take Barth s point to be that for Christians neither realm should exist without the other the world should be
In All Things
Michael J. O’Loughlin
I wrote about my experience visiting a medical school anatomy lab a while ago and I described how viewing human bodies in such intimate detail caused me to consider the spiritual and epistemological dimensions of human life One Catholic medical school in Chicago also recognizes the spiritual dimen
In All Things
Michael J. O’Loughlin
Do you have a Jesus fish on your car and if so why That question is explored by blogger Fred Clark at Patheos who writes about witnessing tools and Christian Evangelicalism nbsp He says that witnessing to the faith is taught to Evangelical Christians from a very young age and then explores
In All Things
Michael J. O’Loughlin
Fr Mychal Judge the fallen chaplain of the Fire Department of New York City will be honored with a statue in front of his former parish according to a story from Religion News Services via The Huffington Post When All Saints Church sought to signal its hospitality to gays and lesbians the Ca
In All Things
Michael J. O’Loughlin
Bill Keller the outgoing editor of the New York Times pens a column in the NYT magazine this week seeking answers to questions about the religious beliefs of GOP presidential candidates and how those beliefs might impact their governance He snidely suggests that if a candidate claimed belief in
In All Things
Michael J. O’Loughlin
There is a letter circulating the web from the Family Research Council to their members and prospective donors that is being condemned by many for its hateful rhetoric indirectly targeted at children and young adults The letter posted in its entirety below uses the It Gets Better Campaign and