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David Gibson

David Gibson is an award-winning religion journalist, author and filmmaker. He writes for RNS and until recently covered the religion beat for AOL's Politics Daily. He blogs at Commonweal magazine, and has written two books on Catholic topics, the latest a biography of Pope Benedict XVI.

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

As the Jewish victims in the French school shooting were being buried in Israel, police in France laid siege to the...

White House proposal gives religious groups more say in birth control mandate

The Obama administration is offering to expand the number of faith-based groups that can be exempt from the controversial contraception mandate, and proposing...

Evangelicals voting in record numbers in GOP primaries

Making up half of Republican primary voters, evangelicals appear to be turning out to support Rick Santorum's resurgent campaign in record...

Monday’s Religion News Roundup: Obama still a Muslim, Gingrich ditches “GCB,” Doonesbury on abortion

American officials in Afghanistan are bracing again for another backlash, this time following the massacre of at least 16 Afghan civilians, mainly children and...

Rick Santorum’s secret army: home-schoolers

Strapped for cash and paid staff, Rick Santorum has enlisted a ragtag but politically potent army to keep his campaign afloat:...

Fat Tuesday; “Catholic” Glenn Beck; Southern Baptists’ name

Lent started a couple days early for the ESPN editor who wrote a headline about Knicks phenom Jeremy Lin that recalled...

Obama exempts religious groups from contraception mandate

Facing growing furor from religious groups, President Obama on Friday unveiled an "accommodation'' in which health insurance companies, rather than religious institutions, will...

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