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Book ban poses problem for religion

For years conservatives have complained about the efforts of the American Civil Liberties Union and other groups to rid the public square of religion. Every December, Bill O'Reilly devotes a few segments to the "War on Christmas." In Louisiana, the religious right has worked furiously to defend an image of Christ in the Slidell City Courthouse. The reasoning for many of these defenders in 2004 was that the reelection of President Bush would be a victory for religion over the government's attempts to censure it. They were promised a Savior; instead, they got a Judas. Continued

Saturday, February 4, 2012
"It is necessary to recover some basic aspects of finances, such as the primacy of labor over capital, of human relationships over purely financial transactions, and of ethics over the sole criterion of efficiency," Archbishop Celestino Migliore, the Vatican's apostolic nuncio to the United Nations.

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