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Jimmy Swaggart in critical condition after cardiac arrest

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Louisiana televangelist Jimmy Swaggart remained in critical condition Tuesday, two days after he suffered a cardiac arrest and collapsed at his home.

Swaggart, 90, was found at his Baton Rouge residence around 8 a.m. Sunday, with first responders immediately administering CPR and taking him to a hospital, his family said on Facebook.

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How many US adults have connections to Catholicism? What new survey finds

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Catholics make up one of the largest religious groups in the United States — more than any Protestant denomination — and many who don’t identify with the faith still said they have a personal or family connection to it, according to a new survey.

Nearly half of Americans, 47%, said they have a relationship to the Catholic faith, with 20% ...Read more

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Massachusetts officials face heat for push to ban religious groups from renting school space

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BOSTON — City officials in Salem, Massachusetts, are under fire as they push to ban churches and religious groups from renting public school space.

While the Salem School Committee moves forward with the proposal, a free speech and religious liberty group is threatening that it will sue The Witch City for “anti-Christian witch hunts.”

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Exhumed Minnesota priest gets new resting place as supporters start push toward sainthood

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DULUTH, Minn. – A procession of hundreds of Catholics carried a small casket with the remains of the “Patriarch of the Diocese of Duluth” to a new resting place this week, as church officials prepare to lobby for his inclusion among the saints.

The short procession to the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Rosary was led by priests, deacons and...Read more

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Commentary: Why nostalgia for the 1950s of 'Leave it to Beaver' persists in America's religious right

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Anyone looking to drench themselves in the 1950s nostalgia currently favored by the religious right in America should consider watching “Leave It to Beaver” stoned. Which is what I did with an old friend in the 1980s while attending graduate school at the University of California-Berkeley.

Nostalgia for the ’50s — that land beyond time ...Read more