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The most surprising finding was the religious sites visited by each group. Online data appears to challenge the concept of the religious right. When applied to the religious category, the Democrat types indicated high percentages for Christian Websites - specifically bible study sites - while red staters were most likely to visit...
...Catholicism has experienced the biggest exodus of members, though that has been offset by a huge influx of Catholic immigrants, mostly Latinos. Immigrants are fueling growth in other faiths too. Two-thirds of U.S. Muslims are foreign-born...
...play’s relevance and powerful thematic content as the primary reasons behind her decision to direct it this semester. “Even though this play is about the Catholic priest scandal, it is a debate play as well about ‘Old’ Catholicism and ‘New’ Catholicism because Sister Aloysius represents that old school way of teaching, making her students do things the hard way,” she says. “And Father Flynn is kind of the liberal, new school, loving, ‘I want...
It is a Vatican rule: candidates for sainthood wait five years beyond their deaths before the Catholic Church begins its investigation of their "heroic virtue," the first step toward canonization. Only two figures in recent history have received a fast-track exemption: Mother Teresa and Pope John Paul II, both...
...that World War I would end, but "if people do not cease offending God, a worse one will break out during the Pontificate of Pius XI." Both would have qualified as prophecy back in 1917. So would an even more topical prediction: that if Russia were not converted to Catholicism, that nation would "spread her errors throughout the world, causing wars and persecutions of the church." From that moment on, Fatima provided mystical expression, and became inextricably entwined, with Catholic anti-communism...