Day: September 13, 2010

Gay and lesbian couples seeking immigration rights

One of the couples mentioned in the story is John Beddingfield and Erwin de Leon, who have been together for 12 years. Recently they they married in the District of Columbia. Erwin is a graduate student and former interim coordinator of the diocesan networks for Episcopal Relief and Development, and his visas are going to run out shortly. John is the rector of All Souls Episcopal Church.

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The pope is coming. The pope is coming

You are opposed to telling Africans that condoms “increase the problem” of HIV/Aids. You are opposed to labelling gay people “evil”. The vast majority of you, if you witnessed any of these acts, would be disgusted, and speak out. Yet over the next fortnight, many of you will nonetheless turn out to cheer for a Pope who has unrepentantly done all these things.

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More perils in preaching: an open thread

Last Monday we asked how preachers around the church had handled the difficult Gospel passage on hating your mother and your father. This week I’d like to ask a broader question: what passages–particularly Gospel passages–do you find hardest to preach on? Why? And what do you do about it?

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Historical parallels: American Catholics and Muslims

Historical comparisons are bound to be inexact; but American Muslims, like American Catholics, are now building their own religious and cultural institutions, and they are seeking guidance from a wide variety of religious sources—some few from jihadists, most from accommodationists.

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The return of the faithful

Wherefore we have need of zeal in every direction, and much preparation of mind: and if we so order our conscience as to hate our former wickedness, and choose the contrary path with as much energy as God desires and commands, we shall not have anything less on account of the short space of time:

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John Henry Newman: a Study in Conflicts and Contrasts

Newman, in Tracts for Our Times, made a lengthy case that the Church of England was an ancient, valid Catholic Church and Rome was corrupt, deficient, and schismatic in part because of its magnetic attraction to papal power. But much later in his Apologia Pro Vita Sua and other writings, Newman deftly avoided most of the sharp criticisms of Rome he had made earlier in the Tracts.

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