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Sweeney, prominent bishop challenge Catholic Church on action for workers

May 4, 2011 By Mark Gruenberg

Retired AFL-CIO President John Sweeney, one of the Catholic Church's most prominent laymen, and a bishop are challenging their church to live up to its own ideals on workers' rights.

In Dallas, Good Friday march seeks “moral budget”

April 25, 2011

DALLAS -- The Dallas Area Progressive Christian Alliance took the teachings of the Bible, and the need for relief from poverty and suffering, to the streets of Dallas here on Good Friday, April 22.

Extremist Westboro Church foiled in Mississippi

April 25, 2011 By Ryan C. Ebersole

When members of the far-right Westboro Baptist Church showed up in Brandon, Miss., April 16 to protest the funeral of Marine Corps Staff Sgt. Jason Rogers, local residents banded together.

Happy Easter: a new world is coming

April 20, 2011 By Henry Millstein

The real message of Easter speaks powerfully to everyone, whatever their religious belief or unbelief.

Bill would let religious adoption agencies bar same-sex couples

April 13, 2011 By Pepe Lozano

Two Illinois state senators are trying to pass a measure that would allow religious adoption agencies to deny requests from same-sex couples in civil unions.