The Rev. Richard John Neuhaus, an eminent Catholic intellectual who tutored President Bush in Catholic social teaching and helped build the political coalition that made his election possible, died Thursday (Jan. 8) at age 72. Neuhaus died soon after 10 a.m. of complications from cancer, according to a statement by First Things, the intellectual journal…

A Sikh woman sued the Internal Revenue Service this week, alleging that the IRS violated her religious freedom by prohibiting her from wearing a small ceremonial knife to her job as a revenue agent. The lawsuit, filed in Houston federal district court on Tuesday, states that the IRS fired Kawaljeet Kaur Tagore in July 2006…

HERAT, Afghanistan — Simagol Yousefi was only 20 when her husband, Abdul, traveled to Iran to find work, leaving her and their two young sons in the care of her in-laws. Yousefi said it soon became clear she and her children were not welcome by Abdul’s parents or his five siblings. “They beat my children…

WASHINGTON (RNS) The Library of Congress’ American Folklife Center is seeking sermons that are preached in U.S. houses of worship during inaugural week. The library said it would mark the historic inauguration of President-elect Barack Obama as the nation’s first African-American president by adding sermons from a range of houses of worship and secular settings…

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