- Vatican Reprimands U.S. Nuns Group--For their support for Obamacare. NYT
- American Nuns Reject Vatican’s Orders – Say They Are Not Going To Stop 'Caring For The Least Among Us'--You go, girls.
- Pope hits out at 'radical secularism'
- Corruption scandal shakes Vatican as internal letters leaked
- U.S. adds Vatican to money-laundering 'concern' list
- Spiraling Scandal Reveals Machiavellian Manoeuvering within the Vatican
- The Vatican Started Penal Investigation
- Supervising Priest Goes on Trial in Philadelphia--Five weeks of testimony just concluded. NYT
- Irish priests say they will disobey new confession box law on child abuse--"Irish priests have vowed to defy a new law forcing them to report details of sexual abuse revealed in the confessional box." And in this particular case, they should.
- Catholic Church Still Paying for Sex Abuse Scandal
- Child sex abuse in the Church: alliance demands full inquiry--"Anglican and Catholic churches have lost the right to police themselves, say victims."
- Fr D'Arcy will continue to speak out on church issues--"Father Brian D'Arcy has said he will continue to speak out on controversial issues affecting the Catholic Church despite being rebuked by the Vatican."
- Right-Wing Religion's War on America--"Many in America's Catholic leadership and on the evangelical right claim there's a war on religion. In fact, they are waging a war on individual liberties."
- Andrew Sullivan: Christianity in Crisis
- Divided by God--"Americans have never separated religion from politics, but it makes a difference how the two are intertwined. When religious commitments are more comprehensive and religious institutions more resilient, faith is more likely to call people out of private loyalties to public purposes, more likely to inspire voters to put ideals above self-interest, more likely to inspire politicians to defy partisan categories altogether. But as orthodoxies weaken, churches split and their former adherents mix and match elements of various traditions to fit their preferences, religion is more likely to become indistinguishable from personal and ideological self-interest." NYT
- As politicians talk more about faith, voters seem to want less
- How Christian Groups Push Right-Wing Religion With the Help of Your Tax Dollars
- Arizona Kids Can Now Learn About the Bible at School -- but No Other Religious Texts
- How Religion's Demand for Obedience Keeps Us in the Dark Ages--And this is what enlightenment looks like (NYT).
- How to respond to requests to debate creationists
- Tennessee legislature boldly sets the science clocks back 150 years
- Student takes on Louisiana's Creationism Law
- Florida Evangelical Leader Calls on Romney to Renounce 'Racist' Mormon Religion--They've got a history.
- Mormon Baptism Targets Anne Frank -- Again
- Romney’s cousin: Mormonism is a 'fraud'
