The Rev. Dr. Marie Fortune says that if Pope Benedict were to ask her what he should do about the scandal of child sexual abuse in his church, this is what she’d tell him.
The Archbishop of Canterbury has commented on the child abuse scandal now rocking the Roman Catholic Church.
About 100 people came to an ecumenical worship service on the green in New Haven, Connecticut, where people’s feet ceremonially washed and free foot care was offered by local podiatrist and student nurses.
A passion play will be performed in Trafalgar Square.
How precious is the gift of the cross!
See, how beautiful it is to behold!
It shows no sign of evil mixed with good, like the tree of old in Eden;
it is all beautiful and comely to see and to taste.
In working to correct an imbalance, it seems that now we want little to do with a pained and suffering God; with a God who nurses, shits, and bleeds; with a God who identifies with flesh, blood, and bone definitively. The Nativity, the Incarnation, is reduced to sweet manger scenes and gifts of sweets. The cross is an after thought to the joys of Easter