Monday’s Religion News Roundup: Bernard Law, altar girls, Marijuana ministry

Where have you gone, Billy Sunday? Asked to name the nation’s most influential Christian leader, 40 percent of Americans said they couldn’t think of anyone who meets that description, according to a new Barna poll. Twenty percent said Billy Graham, nine percent said Pope Benedict XVI and 8 percent said President Obama. Also in statistical […]

Where have you gone, Billy Sunday?

Asked to name the nation’s most influential Christian leader, 40 percent of Americans said they couldn’t think of anyone who meets that description, according to a new Barna poll.

Twenty percent said Billy Graham, nine percent said Pope Benedict XVI and 8 percent said President Obama.


Also in statistical news, more than 90 percent of Mormon men said they would not consult with their LDS bishop before having a vasectomy, even though the church says they should.

Benedict wrapped up his three-day trip to Africa on Sunday, where he laid out his spiritual vision for the continent and took a few jabs at the continent’s Curruptocracy.

Cardinal Bernard Law, who resigned in disgrace as Boston’s archbishop in 2002, has retired from his sinecure at a Roman basilica.

Cairo Christians are living in fear, the NYT reports, after a weekend of clashes between protesters and the power-grabby military.

The NYPD arrested a 27-year-old Muslim convert accused of planning to attack government and military targets with homemade pipe bombs.

Six GOP candidates paraded their religious bona fides before social conservatives in Iowa yesterday. Not in attendance: Willard Mitt “Danger” Romney.

Rick Santorum said that Romney skipped the forum because he’s uncomfortable talking about “why you believe what you believe and where that came from.”


Or Romney could just be blowing off Iowa and locking up New Hampshire.

Brigham Young University fired an executive producer in the school’s broadcasting department who is making a documentary about being gay and Mormon.

Also at BYU, a letter in the student paper comparing a gay parent to a “prostitute” or a “serial killer” prompted outrage from readers.

A Virginia parish’s decision to disallow altar girls has also sparked some protests.

A computer analysis of the Pentateuch, determined that the texts traditionally attributed to Moses are based on two primary sources.

The Vatican newspaper L’Osservatore Romano says there is little doubt that Shakespeare was Catholic.

A Canadian court refused to grant an religious exemption to a member of the Church of the Universe who believes that cannabis is the “tree of life.”

The Universite “has not shown that his practice of consuming seven grams of marijuana per day has any nexus with religion,” the court ruled. Don’t they know about the Marijuana Ministry?

A Georgia factory worker is suing his bosses after he was fired for refusing to wear a sticker with the number 666, which he believed would send him straight to hell. First he’s going to the unemployment line.


Yr hmbl aggregator,

Daniel Burke

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