Day: January 8, 2008

Jesuits to elect new leader

The election for the latest successor of St. Ignatius, the 16th century founder of the Jesuits, will take place in the days following next Monday’s opening of the 35th General Congregation, a meeting of 226 delegates elected from the orders geographical “provinces” around the world. Though there is no set date for the election, which requires a three-fourths majority of delegates, Jesuit sources say by mid-January there should be a new Superior General.

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Immigration and the church

The religious community is uniquely positioned to serve as a bridge across our differences on immigration and become a source of healing and reconciliation…

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Facebook and Communion

Anglicans Online asks whether the Communion is becoming like Facebook or another social networking site with people adding and deleting each other at will. The

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Matters of life and debt

The Church of England has compiled a post-Christmas debt check for consumers worried about how much their wallets have been hit by Christmas and New

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Here I stand

I’m not going to be blackmailed any more with threats of leaving. I’m not going to let others use my commitment to including all of the Baptized in my Church, at whatever level the Spirit gives them gifts to serve.

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Harriet Bedell

St. Andrew’s Mission at Stephen’s Village on the Yukon River between Fort Yukon and Rampart, deserves a special word because its actual starting was the result of a really clamorous importunity on the part of the Indians themselves. So long as the white man’s town of Rampart was large enough to warrant a resident missionary, Stephen’s Village, with its native catechist, was visited from that post, eighty miles away.

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