The Roman Catholic bishops of the US have come out pretty clearly against supporting any candidate they deem to be “pro-choice”. The problem has been though that many Roman Catholic voters have ignored that advice. Now a priest is suggesting a way for wayward RC’s to repair the damage to their souls for voting for Obama last week.
Christopher Jamison, the Abbot of Worth, in the Inaugural “Noah Lecture” has spoken about ways that people of faith might act to lead society out of the present financial and global climate crises. He points the finger of blame at our willingness to start believing that “greed is good” and says that we need to return to the basics of moral theology.
Parish worship on the whole continued along pre-Revolutionary lines once the Episcopal Church had organized itself and adopted a Prayer Book. Regional variations persisted. Connecticut’s Bishop Seabury devoted himself energetically to his episcopal ministry, ordaining clergy for New England,
God knows, I am not against wealth but it is worth asking what it consists of. If you Google the richest man in the world, you get names like Bill Gates, Warren Buffet and Carlos Slim. Here are some other answers. An anonymous rabbi said, “The richest man in the world is the one who is content with what he has.” But can the auto industry survive my contentment with my car?
Bishop Trevor Mwamba of Botswana spoke of “delusions of grandeur” among some of the African primates and noted that many church members throughout the continent had not been consulted about issues of human sexuality, and were “frankly not bothered with the debate.”
Speaking at a charity dinner, President Bush called the work done for Africa by his administration and family “a labor of love.” Before his remarks, he accepted the Bishop John T. Walker Distinguished Humanitarian Service Award, which pays tribute to leaders in humanitarian fields for Africa.
A Catholic priest got exercised when a California reporter attempted to ask him about reports that he had expelled a woman from Mass “because her vehicle sported painted signs in support of president-elect Barack Obama.” Violence ensued. Imagine the response on the Anglican right had the priest been an Episcopalian and the signs in support of John McCain.
Bishop Tom Ely: I will convene a Task Force to study and plan for what it will take to bring renewable energy projects to Rock Point and to make Rock Point – by the year 2015 – a model of energy conservation and efficiency in Vermont and beyond.
Religion Dispatches, which will have a bright future if its early content is any indication, has two excellent essays about President-elect Barack Obama and the Religious Left–such as it is.
Philosophers, psychologists, neuroscientists, economists … are putting together a novel picture of morality—a trend that University of Virginia psychologist Jonathan Haidt has described as the “new synthesis in moral psychology.” The picture emerging shows the moral sense to be the product of biologically evolved and culturally sensitive brain systems that together make up the human “moral faculty.”