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For churches, busy Christmas season 'tiring … but so uplifting'
Immediately before the first of eight Christmas Eve services begins at his church, the pastor of St. Louis Parish will seek out his favorite chair and briefly, yet blissfully, nod off.
The Rev. Msgr. Joseph L. Luca finds that quick rejuvenation of the...Tags: Christmas, Christianity, Clarksville, Symptoms, Ellicott City
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CNN's John King takes it to a higher gear with Iowa eve analysis
The Baltimore Sun.CNN received a lot of praise for its "Magic Wall" technology during its 2008 coverage. And John King, who worked the touch-screen electoral maps, like no one else was rightfully celebrated in connection with it by me and many others. So, none of this...Tags: Rick Santorum, Tea Party Movement, Christianity, Republican Party, Michele M. Bachmann
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Religious bigotry in Ocean City?
For 20 years, the annual Mayor's Prayer Breakfast in Ocean City has been a generally quiet affair. But this year the event's sponsors invited as guest speaker a former high-ranking Pentagon official notorious for his characterization of Muslims as idol-...Tags: U.S. Army, Christianity, Justice and Rights, Civil Unrest, Freedom of the Press
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Romney's trump card: 'electability'
New Hampshire Republicans are practical people.
As I traveled around the state this past week, voters who said they supported Mitt Romney in Tuesday's presidential primary consistently offered two reasons for their choice.
One was Mr. Romney's resume:...Tags: Rick Santorum, Christianity, Regional Authority, U.S. Presidential Election Exit Polls (2008), Mitt Romney
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Tebow wars: Give it a rest
Denver Broncos quarterback Tim Tebow is an evangelical Christian. He is devoted to his faith in a very public way, and that, as much as his perplexing play on the football field, has made him a cultural lightning rod. The wise heads of football insisted...Tags: Christianity, Pittsburgh Steelers, College Sports, Civil Unrest, Ben Roethlisberger
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In Santorum, evangelicals seek another earthly savior
A group of conservative evangelical leaders met in Texas last weekend and endorsed a Roman Catholic for president. Given the history of evangelical antipathy toward the theological underpinnings of the Roman Catholic Church, that in itself signals a...Tags: Rick Santorum, Christianity, CBS Corp., Denver Broncos, Newt Gingrich
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Santorum and the mythic power of the zealots
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If you think Rick Santorum is a weird, pious wackadoo, try being a female walking around certain ultra-Orthodox neighborhoods in Israel with your ankles showing.
Mr. Santorum's near-victory in...Tags: Rick Santorum, Family Planning, Christianity, Israel, Birth Control
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Bound together by different faiths
This summer, the Dalai Lama, spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhists, preached on the U.S. Capitol grounds to promote his 2011 world peace initiative and related quest to reconcile the world's great religions. I've always been fascinated by his very...Tags: Christianity, Interreligious Dialogue, Drama (genre), Psychology, Judaism
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Mormonism isn't a cult
If your party nominated a generally well-qualified person for president who happened to be Mormon, would you vote for that person?
Earlier this year, Gallup pollsters asked that exact question, and 76 percent of those who responded said yes, they would....Tags: Christianity, Minority Groups, Stranger Than Fiction, Executive Branch, Mitt Romney
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Local Lutherans honor founder
Despite the rain, snow and blustery wind Saturday, a crowd of more than 100 robed clergy and their congregants surrounded the 18-foot-tall bronze statue of Martin Luther that overlooks Lake Montebello and recreated the original unveiling service from 75...Tags: Mount Royal, Christianity, Jones Falls, Mergers, Acquisitions and Takeovers, Immigration
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Separation of church and state is as important for ministers as it is for politicians
It was said of Al Smith, a Roman Catholic, that if he won the 1928 presidential election he would take orders from the Vatican and not uphold the Constitution.
John F. Kennedy famously confronted that anti-Catholic prejudice in a 1960 speech to the...Tags: Rick Santorum, Church and State Relations, Christianity, Herman Cain, Mitt Romney
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An interfaith road trip to promote understanding
An evangelical minister, a rabbi and an imam rent a van. What sounds like the start of a joke is actually a national tour we began together on the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, to improve interfaith cooperation and address a rising...Tags: Christianity, Terrorism, Thomas Jefferson, Frederick (Frederick, Maryland), George Bush
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