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• Health secretary addresses health care, religious freedom in protested graduation speech May 18, 2012
  By Dan Merica, CNN Washington (CNN) – In an anticipated and controversial address Friday, Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius delivered a speech that blended inspirational messages to graduates with a discussion of public policy's tough decisions, including health care and honoring religious freedom. Her speech at the Georgetown Pub […]
• In culture war skirmishes, Georgetown becomes political football May 18, 2012
  By Dan Merica, CNN Washington (CNN) – In the latest round of culture wars over contraception and religious liberty, most Americans would probably identify places like the White House and Congress as key battlefields. But another nearby locale has emerged as a national platform for such skirmishes: the stately campus of Georgetown University, the country […]
• Belief Blog's Morning Speed Read for Friday, May 18 May 18, 2012
  By Laura Koran, CNN Here's the Belief Blog’s morning rundown of the top faith-angle stories from around the United States and around the world. Click the headlines for the full stories. From the Blog: CNN: Artist wants Jesus Popsicles to stand as statement on fanaticism, violence Sebastian Errazuriz has used art to take on an […]
• Artist wants Jesus Popsicles to stand as statement on fanaticism, violence May 17, 2012
  By Eliott C. McLaughlin, CNN (CNN)–Sebastian Errazuriz has used art to take on an array of issues: New York's death rate, the Occupy movement, military suicide, children with disabilities, the brutal reign of Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet. Now, the Brooklyn-based artist is taking aim at what he sees as religious extremism. At a party this […]
• Catholic Church v. Georgetown May 17, 2012
  (CNN)–CNN's Brian Todd reports on a rebuke to Georgetown University from the Washington Archdiocese over a speech from U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius. […]
• Your Take: Rebuttals to rethinking the Bible on homosexuality May 17, 2012
  The Bible clearly condemns homosexuality – and, by extension, same-sex marriage – right? A guest "My Take" post we ran this week from a college psychology professor who has a background in religion (he was ordained a Roman Catholic priest, for instance) challenged that conventional wisdom. The professor, Daniel A. Helminiak, argues that foes of [.. […]
• Belief Blog's Morning Speed Read for Thursday, May 17 May 17, 2012
  By Laura Koran, CNN Here's the Belief Blog’s morning rundown of the top faith-angle stories from around the United States and around the world. Click the headlines for the full stories. From the Blog: CNN: College drops health care plan over religious objections to new law A Catholic college in Ohio has apparently become the […]
• College drops health care plan over religious objections to new law May 16, 2012
  By Dan Gilgoff, CNN.com Religion Editor (CNN) – A Catholic college in Ohio has apparently become the nation’s first to drop its health care plan because it opposes parts of the federal health care law signed by President Barack Obama. The Franciscan University of Steubenville posted on its website last week that it is discontinuing […]
• Belief Blog's Morning Speed Read for Wednesday, May 16 May 16, 2012
  By Laura Koran, CNN Here's the Belief Blog’s morning rundown of the top faith-angle stories from around the United States and around the world. Click the headlines for the full stories. From the Blog: CNN: Catholic Archdiocese of Washington rebukes Georgetown on Sebelius speech The Archdiocese of Washington, the Catholic Church’s authority in the nation […]
• Catholic Archdiocese of Washington rebukes Georgetown on Sebelius speech May 15, 2012
  By Dan Merica, CNN Washington (CNN) - The Archdiocese of Washington, the Catholic Church’s authority in the nation’s capital, is rebuking another Catholic icon, Georgetown University, the oldest Catholic college in the United States. The conflict is over the university’s Public Policy Institute’s invitation to Kathleen Sebelius, the U.S. Secretary of Health […]