Day: November 17, 2010

RC Bishops choose new leader

It is the first time since the 1960s that a sitting vice president was on the ballot for conference president and lost. The surprise choice affirms the conservative direction of the Catholic church.

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Unemployed? How to keep the Sabbath?

Whatever message you heard, it probably emphasized taking a day off. But such sermons betray the fact that the vast majority of us have been taught to read the biblical text through the eyes of those who are economically privileged.

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Analyzing a defense of the covenant

The wording of the Covenant is designed to legitimate future such threats whenever objectors kick up a fuss . . . In effect, those who make the most convincing threats of schism will be enabled to hold the rest of us to ransom, as they have just done.

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Courageous bishop

In November 1197 there came a demand from the king for three hundred knights, or money sufficient to hire as many mercenaries, to serve against Philip of France. The archbishop convened a council of bishops and barons at Oxford, where the Bishop of London, speaking as dean of the province, declared his willingness to comply with the demand. Not so the holy Bishop of Lincoln.

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