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Wednesday’s Religion News Roundup: Romney does less bad, Springsteen’s Catholicism, Orthodox abuse

David Gibson | Mar 21, 2012 | Comments (0)

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As the Jewish victims in the French school shooting were being buried in Israel, police in France laid siege to the house of the suspect, a 24-year-old Islamic militant claiming ties to Al Qaeda. French Jews and Muslims grapple for answers. Mitt Romney won big in Illinois last night, and di...

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Before politics, Mitt Romney was a Mormon bishop

Peggy Fletcher Stack | Mar 28, 2012

The Mitt Romney whom many Americans see today is often depicted as wealthy, wooden and out of touch with the working class. To some, he seems gaffe prone, detached, even distant. But that’s not the man Boston Mormons knew in the late 1980s and early ’90s, when many saw him as an eloquent spea...
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Analysis: The myth of Mitt Romney’s evangelical problem

onathan Merritt | Religion News Service | Sep 17, 2012

Mitt Romney has an evangelical problem. Or so we’ve been told by everyone from The New Yorker to The Huffington Post to The Daily Beast.
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BRIEF: Romney wins WA

Tracy Simmons | Mar 3, 2012

Mitt Romney has won the Washington state caucuses. It's his fourth win in a row. In a statement he said Washington voters, "...want a conservative businessman who understands the private sector and knows how to get the federal government out of the way so that the economy can once again grow...
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Romney knows realities of poverty

Diane Kipp | Mar 4, 2012

The TV in my bathroom, there so I can be entertained during the boring tasks of hair drying and makeup application, is often set to CNN, where I currently watch the soap opera-like Days of Our Republican Presidential Candidate Hopefuls.This has led me to an observation about Mormon bishops, which...
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ANALYSIS: As Mitt Romney moves to the middle, anti-abortion activists try to cover his right flank

David Gibson | Oct 17, 2012

As Mitt Romney has moved to the center in an effort to overtake President Barack Obama in the campaign’s homestretch, he has by necessity muted – or even muddied – his previous opposition to abortion rights, a shift that has left some abortion foes aghast. But veteran anti-abortion leaders say they are confident that Romney remains committed to their agenda and, in the final weeks before the Nov. 6 vote, they are busy trying to keep rank-and-file activists from pouncing on the Republican candidate’s ambiguous statements.
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