A new survey by the Barna Group shows that one-third of Americans are unchurched, meaning they have not attended a religious service in the past six months. Who are they? Liberals, mostly. 47 percent of liberals are unchurched, more than twice the percentage of conservatives (19 percent). This being true, attempts by Democrats to appeal to [...]
From the Associated Press: Irena Sendler saved nearly 2,500 Jewish children from the Nazis, organizing a ring of 20 Poles to smuggle them out of the Warsaw Ghetto in baskets and ambulances. The Nazis arrested her, but she didn't talk under torture. After she survived the war, she expressed regret for doing too little. Lawmakers in Poland's [...]
According to the Washington Post’s Philip Kennicott, when Robert MacNeil addressed a recent gathering of American for the Arts, the journalist "lamented the influence of fundamentalism on science education, individual freedoms and the larger public dialogue about the hot-button moral and political issues of the day….And so, no surprise, he leapt to the defense of artists, [...]
We wouldn't expect Frances Kissling, recently retired president of the anti-Catholic front group Catholics for a Free Choice (CFFC), to have any kind words to say about the likes of the Catholic League. Indeed, we would be concerned if she did. So we weren't surprised to read an interview in the March 9 National Catholic Reporter [...]
Presidential hopeful John Edwards recently told the website Beliefnet.com: "I think that Jesus would be disappointed in our ignoring the plight of those around us who are suffering and our focus on our own selfish short-term needs. I think he would be appalled, actually." This is interesting coming from a millionaire who is so loathe to [...]
From the San Francisco Chronicle: "In response to the formation of the Gay and Lesbian Employees Association in 2002, Regina Regerford and Robin Christy put up a flyer on a bulletin board in January 2003 announcing formation of a 'forum for people of faith' to express their views 'with respect for the natural family, marriage and [...]
On a scale of 1 to 10, what the two women bloggers who worked for John Edwards said about Jesus and Our Blessed Mother was a 10 in terms of hate speech. What Ann Coulter said about homosexuals was a lot lower on the scale. Yet Edwards branded Coulter’s remark “hateful” and labeled the comments of [...]
Catholic nuns in the 1960s who listened to Church teaching were cruel and showed little compassion for girls who got pregnant out of wedlock. Or so “The Good-Bye Room,” the March 4 episode of the CBS drama “Cold Case,” would lead viewers to believe. In the show, a young pregnant girl named Hillary is sent to [...]
Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards had this to say about America being a Christian nation: "There's a lot of America that's Christian. I would not describe us, though, on the whole, as a Christian nation...I guess the word 'Christian' is what bothers me, even though I'm a Christian."
From Catholic News Agency: "Bishop Joseph Coutts, the Bishop of Faisalabad says that he is in the sites of Muslim extremists due to his continued efforts to establish inter-religious dialogue in his country. The bishop said that the increase in Muslim radical groups, coupled with his attempts to improve relations between Catholics and Muslims in Pakistan, [...]
