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Monday’s Religion News Roundup: Oscar religion; queasy Santorum; Bevilacqua shredding

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Monday's Religion News Roundup: Oscar religion; queasy Santorum; Bevilacqua shredding 1

Not much religion at the Oscars last night (unless you count celebrity worship).

The documentary about the woman who kissed Elvis and then became a nun did not take home the golden idol. She did have a cute line, though. “Believe me, this is much different than being in a monastery,” Mother Dolores said in a red-carpet interview before the awards ceremony. I dearly hope no one asked who she was wearing.

In the foreign film category,Iran's “A Separation” bested Israel's “Footnote” and several other films, which Iran state TV portrayed as a defeat of Zionism.

Speaking of Oscars,“Boys Town” founder Father Edward Flanagan, who was played by Spencer Tracy in a Academy Award-winning movie of the same name, is officially a candidate for sainthood.

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Tracy Simmons
Tracy Simmons
Tracy Simmons is an award-winning journalist specializing in religion reporting and digital entrepreneurship. In her approximate 20 years on the religion beat, Simmons has tucked a notepad in her pocket and found some of her favorite stories aboard cargo ships in New Jersey, on a police chase in Albuquerque, in dusty Texas church bell towers, on the streets of New York and in tent cities in Haiti. Simmons has worked as a multimedia journalist for newspapers across New Mexico, Texas, Connecticut and Washington. She is the executive director of FāVS.News, a digital journalism start-up covering religion news and commentary in Spokane, Washington. She also writes for The Spokesman-Review and national publications. She is a Scholarly Associate Professor of Journalism at Washington State University.

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Sam Fletcher
Sam Fletcher
14 years ago

It amazes me that GOP voters can carry on about wanting the constitution followed rigorously in American politics, and yet vote for someone such as Santorum, who clearly lacks knowledge of the most basic elements of the document.

Tracy
Tracy
14 years ago

When I lived in Connecticut I did a story on Mother Dolores. She has an amazing story and the most piercing blue eyes you’ve ever seen!