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Facts vs. Feelings In the ‘Ground Zero Mosque’ Debate
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Nicole Neroulias
I’ll be visiting family in New York for the next few weeks, and I plan to check out the progress at Ground Zero while I’m there — and the proposed site of Cordoba House, a Muslim community center and mosque a few blocks from the fallen towers. Given the emotional debate over this proposal, I…
Catholic Feminists Upset By Female Ordination Included in Vatican’s Clergy Abuse Rules
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Nicole Neroulias
In the days since the Vatican released its long-awaited revised canon law standards addressing how clergy abuse cases should be handled, the uproar has shifted from disappointed victims groups (who feel the revisions don’t go far enough) to outraged feminists and others offended that the ordination of a woman is included among the church’s most serious crimes — along with…
With Oil Spill Halted, Prayers Shift to Cleanup, Recovery Efforts
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Nicole Neroulias
Three months after the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig explosion, BP seems to have gotten oil to stop gushing into the Gulf of Mexico. Assuming all those prayers have been answered and the cap holds, the faith-based focus seems to be shifting to the clean-up process, regarding the region’s envrionmental and economic recovery and how America’s energy policy should proceed. Some links:…
Fun Friday: Holocaust Survivor Disco Dances at Auschwitz
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Nicole Neroulias
I’ve found a working YouTube link, so that’s fixed for now. (Please post in the Comments section if it stops working, and I’ll find another one again.) It’s a matter of global Jewish blogosphere debate whether this YouTube video of a Holocaust survivor triumphantly dancing to “I Will Survive” with his grandchildren at central European concentration camps and other Nazi…
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