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  • Terry_Mattingly.jpg Hot news on the religion news beat in 2012

    2012 was a year packed with church-state fireworks.

    December 31, 2012 1 Photo

  • Terry_Mattingly.jpg Columbine, Newtown and the culture of death

    Has violence become so prevalent in our society that we have become largely unconscious of it?

    December 24, 2012 1 Photo

  • Terry_Mattingly.jpg Dave Brubeck's long pilgrimage

    The jazz master decided as an adult to be baptized as a Catholic but resisted the term "convert" and repeatedly explained that he found it impossible to describe precisely what he had "converting from."

    December 19, 2012 1 Photo

  • Terry_Mattingly.jpg Occupy Advent 2012

    Most Americans "frontload" Christmas celebrations into the weeks before Christmas, trample Advent and then ignore the traditional season of Christmas.

    December 10, 2012 1 Photo

  • Terry_Mattingly.jpg Holy matrimony and civic unions, Part II

    Religion columnist Terry Mattingly offers up the second of two columns on the current debates about Holy Matrimony and civil unions.

    December 3, 2012 1 Photo

  • Terry_Mattingly.jpg Can churches cut ties to civil marriage rites?

    Religion columnist Terry Mattingly offers up the first of two columns on the current debates about Holy Matrimony and civil unions.

    November 26, 2012 1 Photo

  • Terry_Mattingly.jpg Preaching to a consumer culture

    Father John Kavanaugh -- priest, teacher, philosopher, author -- saw the need to preach to followers truths they didn't want to hear, says religion columnist Terry Mattingly.

    November 19, 2012 1 Photo

  • Terry_Mattingly.jpg Blunt commandments for faith bloggers

    As in the secular media, the social-media tsunami has rocked the old-guard religious publications, says religion columnist Terry Mattingly.

    November 12, 2012 1 Photo

  • Terry_Mattingly.jpg Serious Catholic words at that funny political dinner

    The Alfred E. Smith Dinner is a presidential campaign event where humor takes center stage but, as religion columnist Terry Mattingly reminds us, it is also a charity fundraiser and an opportunity to recall the humanitarian virtues of the event's namesake.

    November 5, 2012 1 Photo

  • Terry_Mattingly.jpg Billy Graham and Election 2012

    Has the national advertising campaign launched by the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association crossed a line drawn by Rev. Graham himself, asks religion columnist Terry Mattingly.

    October 29, 2012 1 Photo