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  • July 2008

    • Aussie Court Strikes Down Law Banning Pope Protests

      newser  |  Reuters  |  Jul 15, 08 3:25 AM CDT

      Aussie Court Strikes Down Law Banning Pope Protests

      An Australian court has struck down a law aimed at curbing protests during Pope Benedict XVI's visit Down Under, reports Reuters. The law, ruled unconstitutional, had banned protesters from "annoying" those attending papal events. People handing out condoms or wearing anti-Pope t-shirts faced possible $5,000 fines. More »

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      Australia  • protests  • Pope Benedict XVI  • Catholicism  • protesters  • Sydney  • Catholic  • freedom of speech

  • June 2008

    • Obama Just Wants Evangelicals Not to Fear Him

      newser  |  Slate  |  Jun 27, 08 2:47 PM CDT

      Obama Just Wants Evangelicals Not to Fear Him

      Barack Obama’s plan to cut the Democrats' evangelical deficit (68%-30% in 2000, 78-21% in '04)? Convince the religious right he’s not the devil. That’s a “radically different” course from the one taken by John Kerry and Al Gore, what Jeff Greenfield, on Slate, calls a “reassurance strategy”—“in effect, ‘OK, don’t vote for me; but you have nothing to fear from me.’” More »

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      Barack Obama  • election 2008  • Ronald Reagan  • Catholicism  • evangelicals  • John F. Kennedy  • James Dobson  • the religious vote

    • Italian Churches Ban Da Vinci Code Prequel

      newser  |  ANSA (Italy)  |  Jun 16, 08 5:55 PM CDT

      Italian Churches Ban Da Vinci Code Prequel

      The diocese of Rome is branching out into film criticism and banning a DaVinci Code prequel from shooting in two of the city's churches because the first movie was “harmful to religious feeling,” the ANSA news agency reports. Like the original, Angels & Demons is directed by Ron Howard from Dan Brown’s adaptation of his novel. More »

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      film  • Catholicism  • church  • production  • Da Vinci Code

    • Rumors From Vatican: Bush May Convert

      newser  |  Daily Telegraph (UK)  |  Jun 14, 08 1:45 PM CDT

      Rumors From Vatican: Bush May Convert

      President Bush visited Pope Benedict XVI at the Vatican yesterday, sparking rumors that the president may convert to Catholicism, the Telegraph reports. They spoke in a garden where the pontiff prays daily, not in the library where Benedict greets most world leaders. “What an honor!” said Bush, who has been called the most “Catholic-minded” president since JFK. More »

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      George W. Bush  • Italy  • Catholic Church  • Pope Benedict XVI  • Vatican  • Catholicism  • Jeb Bush

  • May 2008

    • Abortion Digs on VP Hopeful Sebelius Are Ridiculous

      newser  |  Los Angeles Times  |  May 28, 08 12:46 PM CDT

      Abortion Digs on VP Hopeful Sebelius Are Ridiculous

      Right-wingers may be gleefully lampooning Kathleen Sebelius as a money-launderer for an abortion doc, Tim Rutten writes in the Los Angeles Times, but one could make the equally ridiculous case that by writing about it Robert Novak is an Opus Dei operative plotting a national overthrow. Abortion couldn't hurt the Obama veep frontrunner anyway, as this election cycle has happily been immune to “single-issue appeals.” More »

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      Barack Obama  • Catholicism  • vice presidential sweepstakes  • abortion rights  • Kansas  • Kathleen Sebelius

    • Oh, Baby! Jumpers Ward Off Devil

      newser  |  BBC  |  May 26, 08 11:03 AM CDT

      Oh, Baby! Jumpers Ward Off Devil

      Men dressed as demons leapt over rows of placid babies in a Spanish village yesterday in a rite intended to protect them from evil spirits. During a festival marking the Catholic feast of Corpus Christi, infants lie on mattresses as long-jumpers in red-and-yellow costumes fly over them. No one was hurt in the annual event, the BBC reports. The village of Castrillo de Murcia has staged the ritual since 1620. More »

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      Spain  • baby  • Catholicism  • festival  • Corpus Christi

  • April 2008

    • Pundit's Pontificating Draws Fire

      newser  |  Newsday  |  Apr 21, 08 11:58 AM CDT

      Pundit's Pontificating Draws Fire

      Not for the first time, people are calling for Bill Maher's head—in this case for taking pot shots at Pope Benedict XVI on his HBO show. "If you have a few hundred followers and you let some of them molest children, they call you a cult leader,"  Maher said. "If you have a billion, they call you 'pope.'" He also made a joke about the pontiff's membership in the Hitler Youth group as a child. More »

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      Pope Benedict XVI  • Catholicism  • sexual abuse  • Pope Benedict's US visit  • Bill Maher  • Hitler youth

    • Pope Says Mass at Stadium

      newser  |  Washington Post  |  Apr 17, 08 8:56 AM CDT

      Pope Says Mass at Stadium

      Washington's Nationals Park was transformed into a church today as more than 46,000 gathered to hear Pope Benedict XVI say Mass. Beer stands were replaced with confessionals and choirs filled the outfield as the popemobile circled the bases, the Washington Post reports. Giving his homily in English and Spanish, Benedict again warned against society's growing secularism and addressed the sexual abuse scandal. More »

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      Catholic Church  • Pope Benedict XVI  • Washington DC  • Catholicism  • Pope Benedict's US visit  • mass  • Nationals stadium

    • US Catholics Like Benedict, but Not Rome

      newser  |  Washington Post  |  Apr 15, 08 7:18 AM CDT

      US Catholics Like Benedict, but Not Rome

      As Pope Benedict XVI arrives for his first visit to America, a Washington Post poll finds that the pontiff enjoys wide support among US Catholics. Nearly three in four say that they have a positive impression of Benedict. But the poll also reveals that most Catholics find the church out of sync with their personal views, and that many remain pained by the clergy sex abuse scandal. More »

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      United States  • religion  • Catholic Church  • Pope Benedict XVI  • Catholicism  • Pope Benedict's US visit

    • Domino's Founder Grows His Catholic-Friendly Town

      newser  |  Daily Telegraph (UK)  |  Apr 14, 08 1:55 PM CDT

      Domino's Founder Grows His Catholic-Friendly Town

      Almost a year after opening, Domino’s founder Tom Monaghan’s made-to-order Catholic town is growing. Although the 1,000 residents of Ave Maria, Fla., are not exclusively Catholic, the town wears it identity on its sleeve: The only coffee shop plays Mass on TV 24/7, and the bookstores prominently display Vatican, a "papal election board game." The Telegraph pays a visit. More »

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      Florida  • Catholic Church  • Catholicism  • Roman Catholicism  • faith  • Catholic education  • Domino's Pizza  • Ave Maria  • Tom Monaghan

    • Benedict the Right Pope for Right Now: Noonan

      newser  |  Wall Street Journal  |  Apr 11, 08 1:16 PM CDT

      Benedict the Right Pope for Right Now: Noonan

      John Paul II was an incredible Pope, but Benedict might be just what the world needs today, writes Peggy Noonan in the Wall Street Journal. Benedict, who "lacks an immediately accessible flair," succeeded a telegenic "showman" who brought joy to the faithful. "John Paul made you burst into tears," Noonan writes. "Benedict makes you think." More »

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      religion  • Pope Benedict XVI  • Catholicism  • Pope John Paul II

    • 7 Deadly Sins? Try These On for Size

      newser  |  Weekly Standard  |  Apr 10, 08 7:31 PM CDT

      7 Deadly Sins? Try These On for Size

      The Vatican has released a list of seven new Deadly Sins, and satirist-curmudgeon PJ O’Rourke isn’t impressed. Writing in the Weekly Standard , O’Rourke details the updated catalogue, which includes “morally debatable experimentation,” “social inequality and injustice,” and “genetic manipulation.” Finding it wanting, the author has come up with a list of his own. Number one? Celebrity. More »

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      technology  • Vatican  • Catholicism  • globalization  • P.J. O'Rourke

  • March 2008
  • February 2008

    • Pope Fans Rush for Tour Tickets

      newser  |  USA Today  |  Feb 26, 08 9:03 AM CST

      Pope Fans Rush for Tour Tickets

      Pope Benedict XVI will be making his first visit to the US in April, and tickets for two super masses are in high demand, USA Today reports. Ticket requests for the masses at Yankee Stadium and Washington's National Park stadium are already more than double the number of seats available. Every Catholic archdiocese in the country has received a free ticket allotment to distribute to the faithful. More »

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      Catholic Church  • Pope Benedict XVI  • Catholicism  • Catholics

    • Critics Blast Sarkozy's Holocaust School Plan

      newser  |  New York Times  |  Feb 16, 08 12:53 PM CST

      Critics Blast Sarkozy's Holocaust School Plan

      French President Nicolas Sarkozy has sparked a new controversy: The maverick leader is  now defending his plan to have every fifth grader study a French youth killed in the Holocaust. Critics, including Jewish analysts, warn the move could traumatize students. But one historian applauded Sarkozy's "courage" and said what children "see on television or in a horror film is much worse." More »

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      Israel  • France  • Nicolas Sarkozy  • religion  • education  • Nazi  • Catholicism  • Holocaust  • Jews  • anti-Semitism  • separation of church and state

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