The head of the Austrian Church has launched an attack of one of the most senior cardinals in the Vatican, saying that Cardinal Angelo Sodano, dean of the College of Cardinals, “deeply wronged” the victims of sexual abuse by Catholic clergy when he dismissed media reports of the scandal.
A collegiate golfer exercises the virtue ethic at a crucial moment and comes out classy.
This prof sees the soul as the basis for expressive language – but little else. What does that do to faith as we understand and practice it?
Watching this may remind you of why you’re an Episcopalian – or, if you’re not, it might get you to thinking about the fulness of worship in liturgical churches. Or it could just be funny.
I find it increasingly difficult to measure any consistency between the Archbishop of Canterbury’s lectures and his actions regarding the Anglican Communion. Contast his statement to the recent Global South gathering in Singapore to the Christian Muslim Forum Conference of Scholars dated March 22nd.
The phrase “he remains with you” is what someone who himself is leaving would say. And so, to calm their grief, he says that as long as he remains with them the Spirit won’t come, which means they wouldn’t come to know the greater or more sublime things to come. He wanted them, in other words, to see his departure as a blessing.