<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>washingtonpost.com - Religion</title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/metro/religion?nav=rss_metro/religion</link><description>Religion</description><language>en-us</language><ttl>15</ttl><image><title>washingtonpost.com</title><width>140</width><height>20</height><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com</link><url>http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/hp/image/wp_web.gif</url></image><item><title><![CDATA[Pope Tells Journalists to Search for 'Truth']]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11300-2005Apr23.html?nav=rss_metro/religion</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11300-2005Apr23.html?nav=rss_metro/religion</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:25:22 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Pope Benedict XVI presented a smiling papacy to the world's news media Saturday while, in the background, the Vatican's battle over same-sex marriage legislation in Spain presented the pontiff with an early test of his moral authority.]]></description><author> Daniel Williams</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Europe's Minority Politicians in Short Supply]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12396-2005Apr23.html?nav=rss_metro/religion</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12396-2005Apr23.html?nav=rss_metro/religion</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:25:22 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ PARIS  --  Mariam Osman Sherifay is a Muslim woman, born in Egypt. Coskun Coruz left his native Turkey as a child. And Paul Boateng is a soft-spoken and dapper lawyer, a black man who spent most of his childhood in Ghana.]]></description><author> Keith B. Richburg</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[New Dean Envisions Middle Road]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12428-2005Apr23.html?nav=rss_metro/religion</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12428-2005Apr23.html?nav=rss_metro/religion</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:25:22 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The new dean of Washington National Cathedral says his vision is not one where moderate voices of faith are overtaken by fundamentalism.]]></description><author> Henri E. Cauvin</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Less Dramatic Approach to Prayer]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10963-2005Apr23.html?nav=rss_metro/religion</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10963-2005Apr23.html?nav=rss_metro/religion</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:25:22 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Lost in all the attention given to how Pope Benedict XVI will address the hot-button issues facing Roman Catholicism is his approach to what his predecessor termed "the pope's first duty"  --  prayer.]]></description><author> Jim Remsen</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cheney Enters Fray on Judicial Nominees]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A9751-2005Apr22.html?nav=rss_metro/religion</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A9751-2005Apr22.html?nav=rss_metro/religion</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:25:22 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The White House intervened in Congress's bitterly partisan debate over federal judges, as Vice President Cheney vowed to break a tie vote if necessary to change Senate rules and ban filibusters of judicial nominees.]]></description><author> Charles Babington  and Dan Balz</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[For Some, Seder Passes Over Home Cooking]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10612-2005Apr22.html?nav=rss_metro/religion</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10612-2005Apr22.html?nav=rss_metro/religion</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:25:22 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The matzoh balls float in a peppery poblano broth. The chopped liver comes stuffed in jalapeqo peppers. The gefilte fish is fried and served on a squiggle of green sauce. Soft jazz plays in the background.]]></description><author> Petula Dvorak</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pastoral Positions Assigned At AME Church Conference]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10662-2005Apr22.html?nav=rss_metro/religion</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10662-2005Apr22.html?nav=rss_metro/religion</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:25:22 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Ebenezer African Methodist Episcopal Church was packed with about 2,000 church leaders and spiritual drama last weekend as Bishop Adam J. Richardson called waves of ministers to the pulpit of the Fort Washington church and handed out pastoral appointments.]]></description><author> Hamil R. Harris  and Bill Broadway</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[At Cardinal Conclave,  A Prediction And Promise]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6132-2005Apr20.html?nav=rss_metro/religion</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6132-2005Apr20.html?nav=rss_metro/religion</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:25:22 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Benedict XVI opened his papacy with a prediction that he would not hold the throne of Saint Peter as long as John Paul II and he promised to promote conciliation.]]></description><author> Alan Cooperman and Daniel Williams</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pope Vows to Pursue Outreach by Church]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A4036-2005Apr20.html?nav=rss_metro/religion</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A4036-2005Apr20.html?nav=rss_metro/religion</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:25:22 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  VATICAN CITY, April 20  --  Pope Benedict XVI reached out to Roman Catholic reformers and other religions in his first sermon as pontiff Wednesday, saying confidently that John Paul II left him a church that "looks serenely at the past and does not fear the future."]]></description><author> Daniel Williams  and Alan Cooperman</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[An Idyllic Setting for Boy Who Would Become Pope]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6077-2005Apr20.html?nav=rss_metro/religion</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6077-2005Apr20.html?nav=rss_metro/religion</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:25:22 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  TRAUNSTEIN, Germany, April 20  --  The Ratzinger family lived in a modest farmhouse at the far edge of this southern German town with a clear view of soaring pine trees and the majestic, snow-capped Bavarian Alps. Each day, Joseph, who was 12, and his older brother Georg hiked a half hour across town to St. Michael's Seminary, where both excelled at their studies.]]></description><author> Glenn Frankel</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Serendipity, Captured in Family Snapshots]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2457-2005Apr19.html?nav=rss_metro/religion</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2457-2005Apr19.html?nav=rss_metro/religion</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:25:22 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ In an episode of true faith, blind luck, dogged professionalism, the miracle of technology, duty, the interconnectedness of humankind, or, if you like, the enduring mystery of the universe, a small, yellow photo album was returned to its owner yesterday, nearly seven years after she lost it on the streets of Alexandria.]]></description><author> Stephanie McCrummen</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Benedict XVI Assumes Papacy]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A942-2005Apr19.html?nav=rss_metro/religion</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A942-2005Apr19.html?nav=rss_metro/religion</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:25:22 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church Tuesday elected Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger of Germany as the new pope to succeed John Paul II, and announced he will take the name of Benedict XVI.]]></description><author> Daniel Williams</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[New Pope Has Steadfast Beliefs in a Tumultuous World]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1334-2005Apr19.html?nav=rss_metro/religion</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1334-2005Apr19.html?nav=rss_metro/religion</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:25:22 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[His searing experience as a World War II Nazi conscript left Pope Benedict XVI with a distrust of nationalism and socialism, and a passionate belief in holding firmly to enduring truths.]]></description><author> Alan Cooperman</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the U.S., a Familiar Figure in the Fray]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2719-2005Apr19.html?nav=rss_metro/religion</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2719-2005Apr19.html?nav=rss_metro/religion</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:25:22 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Benedict XVI may be a new pope, but American Catholics have been fighting over him for decades.]]></description><author> David Von Drehle</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[10th Anniversary of Bombing Observed]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2517-2005Apr19.html?nav=rss_metro/religion</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2517-2005Apr19.html?nav=rss_metro/religion</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:25:22 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[There was something very different about this anniversary, something less raw and painful, and something perhaps even uplifting. And that's the way it was intended.]]></description><author> Lois Romano</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Joy Tempered by a Wish for a Third World Pope]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2101-2005Apr19.html?nav=rss_metro/religion</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2101-2005Apr19.html?nav=rss_metro/religion</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:25:22 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The selection of Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger as the new leader of the Roman Catholic Church drew mixed reaction across Latin America and Africa. Political and church leaders issued warm statements of congratulations, but many people also said they felt a tinge of disappointment that the new pontiff did not come from the Third World.]]></description><author> Kevin Sullivan and Emily Wax</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Local Catholics React to New Pope]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1588-2005Apr19.html?nav=rss_metro/religion</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1588-2005Apr19.html?nav=rss_metro/religion</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:25:22 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Across the nation and the region, Catholics reacted with strong emotions to the selection of Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger.]]></description><author> Sudarsan Raghavan</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Black Smoke Signals Pope Not Yet Elected]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A62635-2005Apr18.html?nav=rss_metro/religion</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A62635-2005Apr18.html?nav=rss_metro/religion</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:25:22 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Roman Catholic cardinals fail to choose a successor to Pope John Paul II on their first vote and prepare for another round of secret balloting on Tuesday.]]></description><author> Daniel Williams  and Alan Cooperman</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Supreme Court to Decide Whether Church Can Import Drug]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A62675-2005Apr18.html?nav=rss_metro/religion</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A62675-2005Apr18.html?nav=rss_metro/religion</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:25:22 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The Supreme Court accepted a Bush administration request to rule on a clash between religious freedom and drug-control law Monday, announcing that it will review a lower court's ruling that blocked enforcement of a federal ban on a church's importation of hallucinogens.]]></description><author> Charles Lane</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kids Get Role in 'Selecting' Pope]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A63922-2005Apr18.html?nav=rss_metro/religion</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A63922-2005Apr18.html?nav=rss_metro/religion</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:25:22 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[On the day when cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church began the process of selecting a new pope, students at Saint Catherine Laboure School took the "oath of secrecy" and locked themselves away in a social studies classroom in a mock papal conclave.]]></description><author> Hamil R. 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