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April 15, 2013 10:48 AM Reforming the Vatican

Pope Francis has set up a committee of 8 cardinals to advise him how to reform the Curia. (I get this from a good Huffpo report by Nicole Winfield.) The small size and non-Italian composition of the group indicate he...

By James Wimberley

April 04, 2013 7:05 PM North Carolina to Establish State Religion?

According to a piece by Laura Leslie at WRAL: A resolution filed by Republican lawmakers would allow North Carolina to declare an official religion, in violation of the Establishment Clause of the U.S. Bill of Rights, and seeks to nullify...

By Daniel Luzer

March 29, 2013 10:24 AM Pope Francis: Change Agent?

Wonkette points to Pope Francis breaking a tradition by washing the feet of two young women prisoners in the nice Maundy Thursday rite he shares (in a bowdlerised dry form) with Queen Elizabeth II. Wonkette doesn’t draw any conclusions, but...

By James Wimberley

March 27, 2013 11:32 AM Will the GOP Lose the Evangelicals?

Republicans have to move on gay marriage or get left behind, especially by younger votes. Mike Huckabee – nobody’s fool – says that, if they do, the evangelicals will take a walk.That sounds to me like a plan, not a...

By Mark Kleiman

March 25, 2013 9:39 AM Claire McCaskill's Very Creative Christian Justification for Gay Marriage

Claire McCaskill endorses gay marriage. That’s an important sign. McCaskill knows Missouri, and if this is a winning position in Missouri it’s “game over.” The partisan Democrat in me hopes the Supremes figure out a way to duck, and force...

By Mark Kleiman