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December 2010

December 27, 2010
President Barack Obama did something on Sept. 19th that caught many in the national press...
December 20, 2010
As millions of YouTube viewers know, the "Hallelujah Chorus" is even hotter than usual this...
December 13, 2010
Father Dino Bottino didn't expect to spark a firestorm several years ago when he delivered...
December 06, 2010
Editor's note: There was no "On Religion" column this past week due to the death...

November 2010

November 29, 2010
As every avid Twitter user knows, there are only 140 characters in a "tweet" and...
November 22, 2010
Few images of John Lennon are as iconic as that of the ex-Beatle playing a...
November 15, 2010
When it comes to liturgical details, the Vatican has clear guidelines about sacred objects that...
November 07, 2010
In the beginning, there was the multimedia superstar Glenn Beck summoning his Tea Party congregation...
November 01, 2010
If Texas Baptists had a patron saint, the Rev. George W. Truett would almost certainly...

October 2010

October 25, 2010
The setting: The office of a priest who serves as a military chaplain. The time:...
October 18, 2010
The words of the fifth Psalm are not for the faint of heart. "Thou art...
October 11, 2010
One of the most important facts to grasp about the small, but growing, flock of...
October 04, 2010
For Catholics raised during the head-spinning days after Vatican II, few things inspire flashbacks to...

September 2010

September 27, 2010
During his long exile in Normandy, the Saxon prince who would become known as Edward...
September 20, 2010
The deaths of the 10 International Assistance Mission medical workers inspired headlines that were both...
September 13, 2010
For centuries, Jews have watched their rabbis show reverence to God during Rosh Hashanah and...
September 06, 2010
Fox News star Glenn Beck staged the show at the Lincoln Memorial, and then fired...

August 2010

August 30, 2010
In the spring of 2007, candidate Barack Hussein Obama met with a New York Times...
August 23, 2010
After her destructive affairs with married men, after the death of her first child, after...
August 16, 2010
One of the last things Thomas Peters does each day is face the Cross of...
August 09, 2010
The sanctuary walls are, as a rule, made of flat wood, concrete and glass wrapped...
August 02, 2010
Editor's note: This past week, tmatt took a vacation to a site with no telephone...

July 2010

July 26, 2010
Anyone who attends one of the national church assemblies that dot the calendar every summer...
July 19, 2010
KERRVILLE, Texas -- The bracelet is both simple and a bit strange, since it consists...
July 12, 2010
The Southern Baptist Convention has passed scores of blunt resolutions in recent decades urging America's...
July 05, 2010
It wasn't hard to connect the dots when, after decades of lurid news about the...

June 2010

June 28, 2010
WINNIPEG, Manitoba -- As the end of his life drew near, Pope Pius XII began...
June 21, 2010
Like most people born and raised in Biloxi, Miss., theologian Russell Moore grew up about...
June 14, 2010
As the decades passed, the coach got used to hearing people call him a hero,...
June 07, 2010
The first Orthodox missionaries to reach Alaska traveled with the early Russian explorers and, in...
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