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Minnesota professor tapped as Vatican ambassador

By Andy Birkey | 05.29.09 | 7:59 am

mdiazMiguel Diaz, a Collegeville, Minn., professor, has been nominated by President Obama to serve as ambassador to the Vatican. Diaz, a theology professor at St. John’s University and the College of…

Religious Right Watch: The ‘War on Christmas’

By Andy Birkey | 12.22.08 | 7:57 am

What is the reason for the season? For some it’s to squabble over when and where people celebrate the birth of the Christian messiah Jesus Christ, and it’s part of the holiday tradition known as the “War on Christmas.” This year the war features a child-molesting Santa Claus, Nazis, gay marriage, Frank Costanza’s Festivus pole and a look back at the most anti-Christian Christmas-bashers in American history: the Puritans.