I feel the time has come for me to repay a part of the debt for the irreplaceable gifts of comfort, strength and abiding faith I have received.
The Diocese of Egbu, Nigeria, has warned its members to distance themselves from secret societies and cults or risk being slammed with commensurate disciplinary measures lined up by the diocese for its erring members.
Their favorite place was Richmond, a dusty speck of a town with high unemployment between coastal Port Elizabeth and huge Johannesburg. Under the umbrella of a program started two years ago by St. Peter’s Episcopal Church in Poolesville (Maryland), the girls stayed two days to deliver food and play with local kids.
Former Episcopal Bishop of Washington, Jane Holmes Dixon, offers her thoughts on the reintroduction of the Latin Mass by the Roman Catholic Church.
The Boston Globe reports this morning: Murdoch’s congregation, which averages about 300 worshipers each Sunday, will have to turn over its three buildings and a
At a multi-denominational press conference on Capitol Hill on July 17, Bishop John Bryson Chane of the Diocese of Washington and five other faith leaders called upon the leadership of the United States Congress to stand for a farm bill consistent with “our nation’s fundamental values of fairness and opportunity for all people.”
No one else in our family was religious, including an uncle who was an American Baptist minister. The rest of us were Protestants merely because we weren’t Catholic or Jewish. So it’s funny that my most enduring childhood memory of spending time with Uncle Walt and Aunt Alene is of those Sundays when they dragged me to Mass and I had to sit alone while they went up for Communion.
Harriet Ross Tubman, a former slave and the most famous conductor on the Underground Railroad, through which slaves were smuggled to the North, remembers her own moment of crossing the border into freedom.