November 18, 2011: Penn State and Clergy Sex Abuse Parallels
DEBORAH POTTER: As the US Conference of Catholic Bishops gathered in Baltimore this week, the group’s president, Archbishop Timothy Dolan, said the sex abuse scandal at Penn State “reopens a wound”...
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February 3, 2012: HEAL Africa
Editor’s Note: Lyn Lusi died of cancer on March 17, 2012. FRED DE SAM LAZARO: There are few images of war’s destruction in the eastern Congolese city of Goma. Little was built in the first place....
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February 24, 2012: Gay Rights in Uganda
PASTOR JOSEPH TOLTON (preaching at memorial service): “David’s murder was meant to cause all of us who support human rights to live in fear…” FRED DE SAM LAZARO, correspondent: David Kato was...
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May 25, 2012: Catholic Institutions v Obama Administration
BOB ABERRNETHY, host: In a coordinated effort, 43 Catholic institutions filed federal lawsuits to stop the Obama administration’s plan to require free coverage of contraceptive services. Among the...
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June 8, 2012: Catholic Bishops: What’s at Stake?
KIM LAWTON, Managing Editor, Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly: After a two-year-long investigation, the Vatican strongly condemned a 2006 book on sexuality written by a prominent American nun. The...
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June 15, 2012: Healthy Visions
JUDY VALENTE, correspondent: Meet Russell Proctor, better-known as R.P., an engaging 26-year-old self-described “ginger head” who could have been a stand-up comic. RUSSELL PROCTOR: Dang it, dang it,...
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June 29, 2012: Religious Responses to Supreme Court Decisions
BOB ABERNETHY: Several major decisions from the Supreme Court this week: Five of the nine justices voted to uphold President Obama’s health care law, saying the law’s individual mandate is legal....
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October 19, 2012: Father Shay Cullen
FRED DE SAM LAZARO, correspondent: Angeles City is one of the Asia’s most notorious sex districts. Even on a rainy evening, dozens of young women were outside their establishments on the look out...
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November 2, 2012: Black Churches and Same-Sex Marriage
BETTY ROLLIN, correspondent: Joel and Scott Tinsley-Hall combined their names when they married in Iowa three years ago. They were both brought up in conservative religious homes, which made their...
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May 17, 2013: Boy Scouts and Gay Ban
DEBORAH POTTER, correspondent: The Boy Scouts of America has long argued that homosexuality is incompatible with its basic principles. As a private organization, its right to exclude gays was upheld...
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