Belief Blog Archive: February 2009
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Catholics, Southern Baptists, losing members
The latest results from the 2009 Yearbook of American and Canadian Churches show numbers are down for Roman Catholics and Southern Baptists but up for several smaller religious groups Published February 25 2009
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CNN nixes popular ad for Tuesday Obama speech
CatholicVote.com's immensely popular ad showing President Obama in utero has been rejected by CNN Published February 23 2009
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Listen up, Obama: Ideas on getting rid of poverty
An ad hoc group of liberal and conservative Christians offers plenty of suggestions for the president on how to deal with poverty. Published February 17 2009
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Fr. Maciel and the Catholics
Local Catholics aren't sure what to say about a sexually abusive priest whose activities were exposed recently. Published February 10 2009
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U.S. Catholic seminarians evaluated
A little-publicized Vatican report about the state of America's 229 Catholic seminaries was released last month. Published February 6 2009
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Obama's faith list and Torah misquote
President Obama releases 15 names out of 25 people to be named to his faith council and slips up when trying to quote the Old Testament Published February 5 2009