Word: catholicism
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Re "A Not-quite-immaculate Conception" [Oct. 16]: The headline for the report on actress Keisha Castle-Hughes' pregnancy confused the Immaculate Conception with the virgin birth of Jesus. Roman Catholic dogma teaches that Mary was conceived without original sin and therefore didn't need to be baptized.
Whereas the Catholic-Protestant divide was once a salient feature of American life—and whereas Jews once faced huge hurdles when they sought to integrate into mainstream U.S. society—the separations among religious groups have eroded over the past half-century, Putnam said.
In Michigan, it's Ward Connerly and Jennifer Gratz versus the state's entire political establishment - and Gratz and Connerly may actually win. Connerly, an African-American businessman famous for being the force behind affirmative action bans that passed in California and Washington in the late 1990s, is now pushing...
Re "Sixty years, new frontiers," Time International editor Michael Elliott's discussion of how Europe has changed since mid-century, when Time first published an Atlantic edition: Looking back over my 31 years of reading Time, I would like to boldly say that it has been worthwhile. Sixty years may...
As Baylor has noted, this is certainly unique compared to the old method of trying to predict what people would do by which denomination they belonged to. Over the last few decades that has proven to be an ever-weakening predictor of moral and political behavior, particularly as denominational definitions...