Court documents show that prosecutors say the Vatican Bank deliberately flouted anti-laundering laws “with the aim of hiding the ownership, destination and origin of the capital.” The documents also reveal investigators’ suspicions that clergy may have acted as fronts for corrupt businessmen and Mafia.
A new wave of Iraqi Christians has fled to northern Iraq or abroad amid a campaign of violence against them and growing fear that the country’s security forces are unable or, more ominously, unwilling to protect them.
As Stanley Hauerwas says, when you meet a church in paroxysms about “the family”, you have met a church which no longer believes in God. What about the Church agonising about its ministry to the individual?
We all affirm that our bishop must be a leader but what many of us are actually looking for is a chauffeur, someone in the driver’s seat who goes where we tell them to take us. We reasonably look for someone who seems to want what we want with the implication that they will do what we would do in order to achieve it.
The truth of the matter is that we can access our treasure, the way of life that we call Christianity, bottled only in earthen vessels. No “Golden Age” ever existed. Medieval Christians and the Reformers created pots whose beauty has waned and whose utility has diminished over time. The necessity to create new earthen vessels with which to try to pass along our treasure to others is ever with us.
Sun from the world has gone;
Cold is the night and still.
Night covers all the land;
Listen! the silence rings:
Fled is the light of dawn;
“Go to a coffee shop, laptop in tow, and buy coffee for a stranger who is willing to poke around your website.”
“Let’s drop the vacuous accusations of activism and instead argue about the right answers to constitutional questions.”
Is it wrong to be simultaneously devotional and hungry?