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What preachers are scared to say: Part 1
Many pastors, maybe most, fear the consequences of speaking candidly to their congregations, says religion columnist Terry Mattingly.
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Hot news on the religion news beat in 2012
2012 was a year packed with church-state fireworks.
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Columbine, Newtown and the culture of death
Has violence become so prevalent in our society that we have become largely unconscious of it?
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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."
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Occupy Advent 2012
Most Americans "frontload" Christmas celebrations into the weeks before Christmas, trample Advent and then ignore the traditional season of Christmas.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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