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2003
AUGUST
August 27, 2003
Church
and State
The Ten Commandments monument was removed from public
view at the Alabama state judicial building. Gwen Ifill discusses the
separation of religion and state with Robert Schenck, president of the National
Clergy Council, and Barry Lynn, the executive director of Americans United for
Separation of Church and State.
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August 25, 2003
Church
in Crisis
Convicted pedophile priest John Geoghan died last weekend
after a fellow inmate attacked him in prison. Ray Suarez discusses the murder
with Mitchell Garabedian, an attorney for many of Geoghan's alleged victims,
and Stephen Pope, the chairman of the Theology Department at Boston College.
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August 6, 2003
Tests
of Faith
Episcopal leaders voted last night to make Gene Robinson the first
openly gay bishop of their church. Margaret Warner discusses the controversy
with Harvey Cox, a professor of divinity at Harvard University, and Michael
Cromartie, vice president of the Ethics and Public Policy Center.
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August 5, 2003
A
Church's Choice
Leaders of the Episcopal Church rescheduled a vote
on their first openly gay bishop. Fred de Sam Lazaro of Twin Cities Public
Television reports on the continuing debate.
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August 4, 2003
A
Church's Choice
Leaders of the U.S. Episcopal Church delayed a vote
Monday to ordain their first openly gay bishop. Fred de Sam Lazaro reports on
the controversy at the Episcopal convention.
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August 1, 2003
A
Church's Choice
Fred De Sam Lazaro reports on the heated debate
over homosexuality in the Episcopal Church.
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JULY
July 16, 2003
Religious
Properties
Ray Suarez reports on a church-state controversy over
federal money being authorized to restore historic religious buildings.
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JUNE
June 19, 2003
Troubled
Church
At the conference in St. Louis, American bishops defended
their efforts to tackle clerical sexual abuse. Ray Suarez discusses the situation
with Barbara Blaine, president and founder of the Survivors Network of those
Abused by Priests; Rev. Tom Reese, editor of America, a national weekly Catholic
magazine; and Scott Appleby, director of the Cushwa Center for the Study of
American Catholicism at the University of Notre Dame.
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MAY
May 12, 2003
Life
in Basra
In the first of a series of reports on the effort to bring security
and political stability to post-war Iraq, Elizabeth Farnsworth reports from
Basra on the British experience in that city and on the weekend's developments
there.
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APRIL
April 22, 2003
Religion
and Politics
A crowd of Shiite Muslims gathered in Karbala for a pilgrimage
that had been banned for decades under Saddam Hussein. Gwen Ifill discusses
the role of religion in the new Iraq with Hamid Dabashi, the chairman of the
Middle East and Asian languages and cultures department at Columbia University;
Yitzhak Nakash, who teaches Middle East history at Brandeis University; and
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