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Cathy Lynn Grossman

Cathy Lynn Grossman is a senior national correspondent for Religion News Service, specializing in stories drawn from research and statistics on religion, spirituality and ethics, and manager for social media.

John M. Templeton Jr., philanthropist devoted to science and religion, dies at 75

John M. Templeton Jr., a pediatric surgeon who left medicine behind to carry on his father’s passion for pursuing “new spiritual information” through the sciences as president and chairman of the Templeton Foundation, has died. He was 75.

Christians lose ground, ‘nones’ soar in new portrait of US religion

The United States is a significantly less Christian country than it was seven years ago.

How moms set children’s spiritual compass and why it matters

Religious identity used to be “inherited.” “Cradle Catholic” is shorthand for born into the faith; within Judaism, the faith is passed through a Jewish mother to her children unless they grow up to proclaim a different religion.

5 faith facts about Hillary Clinton, social gospel Methodist to the core

As she embarks Sunday on her 2016 presidential campaign, one facet of Hillary Clinton, 67, is unchanged across her decades as a lawyer, first lady, senator and secretary of state: She was, is and likely always will be a social-justice-focused Methodist.

Survey: Millennials are the ‘don’t judge generation’ on sexual morality

Most young adults of every religion, race and ethnicity support access to affordable contraception.

Americans don’t cite ‘God, family, country’ quite like the cliche goes

“God, family and country” might make for a good country music tune, but that’s not really how most Americans see the strongest influences on their personal identity.

Gay marriage gains rapid support with U.S. public, including conservatives

As the Supreme Court readies to hear a group of cases that could make same-sex marriage legal from coast to coast, support for allowing gays and lesbians to marry is piling in from all directions.

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