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US Social hostilities toward religion reached six-year high in 2012
Graphic Countries With Very High Social Hostilities Involving Religion. Credit: Pew Research Center. Social hostilities related to religion climbed to a six-year peak in 2012, according to a new report by the Pew Research Center. One-third of the 198 countries and territories in the Pew Research Center’s study had “high” or “very high” social hostilities involving religion, an increase from 29 percent in 2011 and 20 percent in 2007. Some of these countries are very populous. Collectively, they are home to almost 75 percent of the world’s population. Continue reading.
Father Baron on "Angels and Demons"
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New Directions in Christian Psychology
This is fascinating! If you have the time, be sure to watch this! EWTN Original Production - Father Benedict Groeschel and Dr. Gladys Sweeny explore the recent efforts to bring Catholic and Christian values into the realm of professional psychology. View all three parts below.
NCR on Sam Brownback
Sam Brownback is the cover story for the May 11, 2007 issue of National Catholic Reporter : WASHINGTON (National Catholic Reporter) – Sam Brownback, the two-term conservative Kansas senator and recent Catholic convert who wants to be president, is unconventional enough to be interesting, senior enough to be considered seriously, and substantive enough to have a message that could resonate in the Iowa presidential caucuses. But beyond the challenges of name recognition, fundraising and organization – no small hurdles even for the so-called top-tier candidates in the Republican field – Brownback’s got a bigger problem, one that he readily pinpoints: he is trying to convince the electorate that a social conservative, shaped and tempered by a decidedly Catholic ethos, can be a political winner. First, the message The “protection of innocent human life,” he told National Catholic Reporter in late April from his Senate office, “is a moral absolute. It is not one of those issues that falls to...