First the good news: Americans’ confidence in newspapers and television news has rebounded slightly, after mucking around at record lows for three years, according to a new Gallup poll.
The bad news: churches are coming for our jobs.
The Vatican on Wednesday will launch a news information portal that will aggregate information from its print, radio and television media in a one-stop-shop for Holy See news. Even the Romanian Orthodox Church, long known as a bastion of conservatism, is getting into the act, founding radio and TV stations, a news agency and a newspaper.
Rep. Michele Bachmann says that she got a “sense from God” that she should run for president. “It means that I have a sense of assurance about the direction I think that God is speaking into my heart that I should go,” Bachmann said yesterday on “Face the Nation.”
Also on Sunday, a Fox newsman asked Bachmann if she was a “flake.” The Tea Party darling has rocketed into a statistical tie with Mitt Romney for first place in a new Iowa poll of Republicans.
Jon Huntsman doesn’t believe his Mormon faith will be an issue in his bid for the White House. “I’m not running for guru here,” Huntsman said.
New York’s Catholic bishops are very upset that the state approved gay marriage on Friday. Some suggest that same-sex marriage could become a big issue in the 2012 campaign.
Israel’s Vatican ambassador backed off his praise of Pope Pius XII, the WWII-era pope blamed by some Jews and historians for failing to speak out against the Holocaust.
A priest has sparked uproar in Poland by saying the country “hasn’t been ruled by Poles since 1939,” which many interpret as: “Jews are secretly running the show.”
Portugal’s leading Catholic bishop said there is “no fundamental obstacle,” theologically, to women becoming priests.
Franklin Graham led his first major revival focused on Latinos in California and didn’t get the audience he expected, reports the LA Times.
A Sioux leader castigated self-help guru James Arthur Ray for his deadly appropriation of Native American sweat-lodge traditions, then quoted the law of karma.
Christians and Muslims clashed in Egypt over the construction of a church. South Koreans are shocked by their president’s PDC (public displays of Christianity).
Muslims are not happy about a Dutch law that would force changes to their animal slaughter rituals.
A California woman is suing Abercrombie & Fitch after she was allegedly fired for not removing her headscarf. The Muslim woman says she was told she did not comply with the company’s “look policy,” which requires smoldering stares and rampant shirtlessness.
Thousands of pilgrims have gathered in Medjugorje to mark the 30th anniversary of the disputed apparition of the Virgin Mary. Someone made a periodic table of famous atheists.
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Daniel Burke