Only hours after accepting the post, Daniel P. Coughlin, the vicar for priests in the Chicago archdiocese, was sworn in as the first Roman Catholic chaplain for the U.S. House of Representatives. Hopefully this will put to rest the accusations of anti-Catholicism consuming the House—especially Speaker Dennis Hastert—for the last four months. "I am a patient man," Hastert told the Associated Press. "But even I did not easily take in stride carelessly tossed accusations of bigotry. Where I come from such slander is an ugly business." (see more coverage in
The New York Times,
The Los Angeles Times, and
The Washington Times)
"When a university requires it students to pay fees to support the extracurricular speech of other students, all in the interest of open discussion, it may not prefer some viewpoints to others," wrote Anthony M. Kennedy for the court. ChristianityToday.com's earlier coverage of the case is available
here. The court's opinion is
online (or try
here). See also reports in the
Associated Press,
The New York Times,
The Washington Post,
The Los Angeles Times,
USA Today, and the
Badger Herald of the University of Wisconsin (the defendant in the case).
A minister and three others were shot during a Wednesday night service at Iglesia Cristiana Esposa del Cordero Pentecostal Church in Pasadena, Texas. The attacker was reportedly upset that a church member had rejected his romantic advances.
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