The Archive

Day: May 13, 2012

Religion news: the week in review

May 13, 2012 No Comments

Odyssey Networks wraps up last week’s religion news. Like many media outlets, they give the Catholic League more visibility that it deserves.

Happy Mothers’ Day

May 13, 2012 1 Comment

As early as fifteen years after President Wilson established the Second Sunday in May as a holiday, Anna Jarvis was disgusted by how quickly it grew into a buying spectacle and how suddenly it lost its focus on what her mother worked so hard to claim – a focus on mercy for the downtrodden, compassion for the prisoners, justice for the poor, and peace for all humankind.

John Yates wants his own facts

May 13, 2012 21 Comments

The Rev. John Yates, rector of the schismatic Fall Church, is entitled to his own opinion about the events that led him and his followers to break with the Episcopal Church. He is entitled to having those opinions published in The Washington Post. He is not, however, entitled to his own facts.

Hard news from South Sudan

May 13, 2012 1 Comment

UN has already estimated that more than 418,000 people have been displaced since fighting between Sudanese government forces and indigenous rebels erupted in South Kordofan in June last year and later spread to Blue Nile in September.

Jubilee year