The Vatican says Pope Benedict XVI is willing to hold new meetings with victims of child sex abuse by Roman Catholic priests. Meanwhile, AP has turns up more evidence of what the future pope know, and when he knew it.
thanksgiving for the creative endeavour
News reports are hinting that the proposed anti-gay legislation proposed by a member of the parliament in Uganda may be dead. Still clergy around Africa, including Archbishop Desmond Tutu, protest the legislation and are leading the fight against draconian anti-gay laws across the continent.
When disaster strikes, it usually highlights the faults lines of poverty and class that already existed in a society. We saw this at work in New Orleans after Katrina, but never has this been more apparent than in Haiti.
(Update: Apparently Orombi has not resigned, and apologizes for the confusion. See the first comment to this post.)
Ugandan Archbishop Henry Orombi has resigned from the Joint Standing Committee of the Primates Meeting and Anglican Consultative Council. He never came to any of the meeting of the group.
Bishop Thomas Breidenthal of Southern Ohio has issued a fifteen page document on “same gender unions,” including theological rationale, policies, educational resources, and a trial liturgy.
“The Christianity both of them were shaped by is, on the whole, a very, very Western thing,” said Williams.
St. Mary the Virgin’s Cabaret came at the end of an era when there were over a hundred live theaters in midtown Manhattan and tickets cost .85 cents. All that quickly changed with the coming of television, yet the St. Mary’s entertainers kept hoping for the big break that would find them rediscovered, remembering a few colleagues who had been called out of retirement for roles in Broadway shows.
And what, then, on this “our triumphant Holy Day,” should his Life be? What but the sealing to us of all which he had wrought for us? What but the bursting of the bars of our prison-house, the restoration, of our lost Paradise, the opening of the Kingdom of Heaven, the earnest of our endless life?