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Last year, the College hosted Third Eye Blind, best known for ’90s hits such as “Semi-Charmed Life.” And in 2005, Ben Folds took to the steps of Memorial Church...

Author: By Aditi Balakrishna, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: DeGraw May Headline Yardfest | 2/26/2008 | See Source »

...removing obstacles such as the mandatory year-long separation, the 2005 reform - which some have dubbed "express divorce" - has not only made it easier to end an unhappy marriage, but has made the country's divorce rate one of the highest in the European Union. For the Catholic Church, the dramatic increase in divorces underlines the threat posed by the Socialist government of Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero. At a December rally in Madrid to "defend the Christian family," Cardinal Augustín García-Gasco lambasted Socialist initiatives, saying, "The culture of radical laicism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Spain Became Splitsville | 2/26/2008 | See Source »

...coming and going. Simply counting Catholics since 1972, for example, you would get the impression that its population had remained fairly static - at about 25% of adult Americans (the current number is 23.9%). But the Pew report shows that of all those raised Catholic, a third have left the church. (That means that roughly one out of every 10 people in America is a former Catholic, and that ex-Catholics are almost as numerous as the America's second biggest religious group, Southern Baptists.) But Catholicism has made up for the losses by adding converts (2.6% of the population...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: America's Unfaithful Faithful | 2/25/2008 | See Source »

...religious affiliation that way (including people who regarded themselves as religious, along with atheists and agnostics); only 7% had been brought up that way. That's an impressive gain, but Lugo points out that churn is everywhere: even the unaffiliated group lost 50% of its original membership to one church or another...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: America's Unfaithful Faithful | 2/25/2008 | See Source »

...Upon returning to the church after a more than three-decade absence, the author in 2005 dramatically and publicly declared that she would never again return to writing about vampires. Said Rice in an interview with Christianity Today: "I would never go back, not even if they say you will be financially ruined. I would be a fool for all eternity to turn my back on God like that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lestat Lives, Says Anne Rice | 2/24/2008 | See Source »

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