After a week of enduring comparisons to the Catholic Church’s sexual abuse scandal, Penn State played a football game on Saturday.
In a remarkable pregame moment, many of the players and coaches kneeled in prayer. (Photo at left courtesy of the Harrisburg Patriot-News.)
Speaking of supplication, Herman Cain says he “prayed and prayed and prayed” before deciding that God had called him to run for president. “And when I finally realized that it was God saying that this is what I needed to do, I was like Moses,” said Cain.
By my count, that makes four GOP candidates (Perry, Santorum, Bachmann and Cain) who believe they have a divine mandate run for president, and two who have compared themselves to Moses.
And yet, evangelicals have basically given up on finding their Chosen One, says Time’s Amy Sullivan.
President Obama met quietly last Tuesday with Archbishop Timothy Dolan, president of the Catholic bishops’ conference.
The bishops’ recent battles with Obama are certain to be on the agenda at the USCCB meeting in Baltimore this week, according to David Gibson and the AP.
The bishops are concerned that freedom of religion is being limited to freedom of worship, according to the Louisville Courier-Journal.
WaPo reports that congressional Republicans are inquiring into HHS’s decision not to renew a contract with the USCCB.
Separately, a Catholic college is suing HHS, saying a new requirement to provide contraceptives contradicts the school’s religious beliefs.
The Catholic bishop of Phoenix has backed away from his ban on using consecrated wine for Communion at most Masses, saying he misread Vatican instructions on the new Roman Missal.
Lou Engle’s prayer rally in Detroit was smaller and whiter than he expected, but it still ticked off some local ministers.
United Methodist bishops said they will continue to enforce church rules against same-sex unions.
The AP reports that an Amish man attacked his own father, cutting the man’s hair and beard in the latest odd incident in a breakaway Amish community in Ohio.
An archaeologist believes he has discovered the nation’s oldest remains of a Protestant church, which may have been the site of the country’s first celebrity wedding, between Pocohantas and John Rolfe.
The Washington National Cathedral reopened this weekend, just in time to install the Episcopal diocese’s new bishop.
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Daniel Burke