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Catholic power dynamics highlighted in Colorado funding flap
The political tug-of-war waging within the U.S. Catholic Church made headlines in Colorado this month when the Church’s Campaign for Human Development threatened to pull tens of thousands of dollars in...
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The political tug-of-war waging within the U.S. Catholic Church made headlines in Colorado this month when the church’s Campaign for Human Development threatened to pull tens of thousands of dollars in...
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Jobs for Christians
If you want to help carry out the anti-abortion mission of the taxpayer-funded Care Net Pregnancy Resource Center, you have to be a Christian. It’s right there on the Rapid City, S.D., center’s...
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Virginia ‘conscience clause’ allows discrimination in adoption
Image: Virginia State Capitol building. Anderskev, via Wikimedia Commons, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Va_State_Capitol.JPG Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell signed a bill into law this month that will...
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Anti-bullying group barred from Catholic school ceremony
Keaton Fuller via Eychaner Foundation The Diocese of Davenport, Iowa, said Monday that a foundation supportive of LGBT students cannot present a scholarship to a student at one of the Diocese’s schools...
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Mich. GOP elects controversial lawmaker to RNC
LANSING — Michigan Republicans ousted long-standing National Committeemen Saul Anuzis this weekend, instead opting for a right-wing state lawmaker who has sparked controversy on numerous issues,...
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Colorado civil unions battle reanimates old-school Christian right group
DENVER– Opposition to a gay-rights civil unions bill defeated here last month was directed in large part by Colorado Springs-based evangelical empire Focus on the Family and the Colorado Catholic...
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Civil liberties groups decry church messaging at polling places
In South Saint Paul, Minn., on Election Day, residents showed up at St. John Vianney Catholic Church to vote and were greeted with a banner outside the polling place entrance that read, “Strengthen...
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Christian anti-abortion group sues government for taxpayer funding
At the intersection of Church and State streets in Salem, Ore.; via Shutterstock. Should taxpayer funds be used to help a “Christ centered ministry” buy and renovate a building in which it will offer...
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In malpractice case, Catholic hospital argues fetuses aren’t people
This story was originally published by The Colorado Independent. Via Shutterstock. Lori Stodghill was 31-years old, seven-months pregnant with twin boys and feeling sick when she arrived at St....
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