Religion News for 10/5/2009

Hello Readers! It's a beautiful Monday morning. Here's what's been happening lately in religion news...

• Miguel Humberto Diaz is the new American ambassador to the Vatican, and is himself a theologian. (Reuters)
• Pew says support for abortion rights is declining, and that the debate over it is losing steam. (Pew)
• Six of the Supreme Court's justices are now Roman Catholics. Politics Daily's David Gibson has some interesting thought on the implications of that. (PD)
• Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah has taken a stance against evolution at his kingdom's only co-ed university. (Reuters)