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Supreme Court Rules Against Christian Law School Group That Bars Gays, Non-Christians
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Nicole Neroulias
(Updated at 6 p.m. EST to add the RNS link.) It’s a busy news day for the Supreme Court, not even including Elena Kagan’s confirmation hearings — Reuters reports that SCOTUS has ruled in favor of the University of California’s Hastings College of Law, which refused to recognize the Christian Legal Society due to its exclusion…
Supreme Court Denies Vatican Appeal in Clergy Abuse Lawsuit
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Nicole Neroulias
(Updated at 1 p.m. EST with new AP link.) The Associated Press reports that the Supreme Court will allow a clergy abuse lawsuit against the Holy See to move forward, despite the Vatican’s claim of foreign sovereign immunity. The lawsuit, originally filed in 2002 in Oregon, seemed to falter last month, when a White House brief filed by Solicitor…
Fun Friday: Jack Abramoff Goes from Prison to Pizzeria; China Holds ‘Religious Games’
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Nicole Neroulias
I can’t decide which of these religion stories has more entertainment value: disgraced lobbyist (and Orthodox Jew) Jack Abramoff now serving his debt to society by working at a kosher pizzeria in Baltimore, or China holding its first “Religious Games,” in which Buddhist monks played basketball in short robes and nuns lost graciously to Muslims at badminton. Thoughts? *Click here…
Clergy Abuse Investigators Raid Church Headquarters, Cardinal’s Home in Belgium
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Nicole Neroulias
Just nine days after clergy abuse victim advocates held a protest in Belgium calling for more state and church action against pedophile priests and their protectors, police have raided the Belgian Catholic Church headquarters and the home of recently-retired Cardinal Godfried Danneels of Brussels. The investigators have seized Danneels’ personal computer and records related to an internal…
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