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The Roman Catholic Future, in the US and Around the World
The Roman Catholic Church hasn't survived for centuries without adapting to changing times. What's next in the US and Europe? Is the future in Africa, Asia and Latin America? Also, consumer confidence and the holiday shopping season, and the story of a New York Times reporter's escape from the Taliban -- and what his wife went through while he was gone.
By Warren Olney • • 51m ListenThe Roman Catholic Church hasn't survived for centuries without adapting to changing times. What's next in the US and Europe? Is the future in Africa, Asia and Latin America? Also, consumer confidence and the holiday shopping season, and a New York Times reporter who escaped from Taliban kidnappers wasn't the only one whose life was changed. We talk with him and his wife.
Banner image: Cardinal Roger Mahony (L) talks with his successor, San Antonio, Texas Archbishop Jose Gomez during a news conference at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels on April 6, 2010 in Los Angeles, California. Photo: Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images
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3 storiesConsumer Confidence and the Holiday Shopping Season
It's Christmas Eve, the last day of the shopping season and, despite the sagging economy, retailers have not lapsed into panicked fire sales. That's according to Kathleen Madigan, economics columnist for the Dow Jones Newswires .
Read the story8 minThe Catholic Church, the Next Generation
On this Christmas Eve, we take another look at the evolution of the Roman Catholic Church , an ancient institution in a fast moving world. Los Angeles, America's largest Catholic Archdiocese, is now 70 percent Latino and will soon will be led, for the first time, by a bishop born in Mexico.
Read the story30 minTwo Perspectives on a Reporter's Kidnapping
Two months after his marriage to artist-photographer Kristen Mulvihill, New York Times correspondent David Rohde was abducted by the Taliban in Afghanistan. Since kidnapping isn't an ordeal for the victim alone, his seven months in captivity changed both their lives.
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