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Supreme Court and Brazilian Religious Rituals
As the U.S. Senate prepared for hearings on President George W. Bush’s nomination of Judge Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court, the court heard arguments on a major religious freedom case. At issue is whether the União do Vegetal Church should be able to import a hallucinogenic tea it uses for worship, or whether the government should be able to prevent that as a danger to public health.
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In our annual special, we review the top religion and ethics news of the past year.

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Christmas Peace, Fifty Years after Gideon, Christmas at St. Olaf

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Mormon Missionary Expansion, El Salvador Abortion Ban, Sufi Whirling Dervishes

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Nelson Mandela, Pundits and the Pope, Christmas Gift Giving

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Methodist Gay Marriage, Civil Rights 50th Anniversary, Gettysburg Address Anniversary

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Celebrating Hanukkah and Thanksgiving on the same day; Removing the homeless from downtown

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Catholic Bishops, Catholic President; Gun Violence; Long Forgotten Mentally Ill

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Legislative Prayer, American Dream, Kristallnacht 75th Anniversary, Coventry Cathedral

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Pope Francis and Catholic Expectations; Predicting Violence; Reza Aslan's Zealot

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The debate over what it means to be a Catholic school; Poet Christian Wiman

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The new movie "12 Years a Slave"; Lawyers for Justice; Conservative Judaism Centennial

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Catholic writer James Lee Burke; Ethics of solitary confinement; Children's Hajj