Immigration debate turns to religion

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Lawmakers, religious leaders wrangle with the ethics of overhaul. By William Douglas McClatchy Newspapers Posted: Thursday, Jul. 15, 2010 WASHINGTON Religious leaders and lawmakers traded Scripture passages Wednesday at a congressional hearing on whether there’s an ethical imperative to overhaul the nation’s immigration laws. Arguing for a comprehensive immigration package with a guest-worker program, Richard…

U.S. ecumenical ties strong despite challenges to Christian unity

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WASHINGTON (CNS) — More people profess Catholicism in the United States than any other single religion. There are 64.4 million Catholics, representing close to 22 percent of the nation’s total population. But the overall number of Catholics and other Christians represents an overwhelming majority of the U.S. population, which has now passed the 300 million…

What Does Bush Owe the Religious Right?

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Sunday, Jan. 30, 2005   By Karen Tumulty; Matthew Cooper For people of faith, the political landscape has never been entirely comfortable terrain. Politics, they have learned from experience, is a process in which principles get ground up into compromises–or ignored until the next campaign rolls around. This time religious conservatives are counting on things to…