Year: 2008

Eleven year old feeds the hungry

Jack said he hopes his involvement encourages kids his age to help others. ”I can really believe in myself because I’m just a kid, and kids are usually not the ones who change the world,” Jack said. “I thought it would be a change.”

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T-school goes to B-school

The Wall Street Journal does an interview at Villanova about its masters in church management program. A snip: Beyond the need for better financial controls,

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Who were the Magi?

Matthew’s gospel, whence the story comes, identifies the Magi by a plural designation only. And this plurality permits Christian interpretation in art and tradition to reflect the fundamental ambiguity of the text: the masculine Greek plural “magoi” means only that the Magi are plural in number and that one of that number is a man. There might have been three or four or a hundred Magi at Jesus’ birth.

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Julia Chester Emery

Julia Chester Emery is not the kind of person one expects to meet in a calendar of religious commemorations, in part because of the nature of her accomplishments. Her story does not involve extraordinary feats of courage, neither was she tortured or executed for reason of her faith.

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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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