Does the fact that Barack Obama won the Catholic vote nationwide (albeit narrowly) weaken the position of Catholic bishops that the contraception mandate within Obamacare
Hawaii is sending the U.S. House of Representatives its first Hindu member, and the U.S. Senate its first Buddhist. Huffington Post reports:
“There are fresh demands to reform the system of appointing Archbishops after suspicious bets were placed on the appointment of the next Archbishop of Canterbury,”
And I saw three foul spirits like frogs coming from the mouth of the dragon, from the mouth of the beast, and from the mouth
“The man expected to be named as the next Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, turned his back on a successful career in the oil industry
The United Methodist Publishing House announced it would begin closing its 38 full-line stores and 19 seminary bookstores, in order to sell books exclusively through its Web site, Cokesbury.com, its Cokesbury Call Center, at conferences and meetings, and through church events. The board of directors of UMPH cited growing sales through those channels and declining sales in its physical stores as the reason for the move. A recent survey by the organization revealed only 15 percent of customers purchasing books in the stores. Cokesbury handles retailing for Church Publishing.
by Margaret M. Treadwell “If you want to be close to Jesus, be with the poor,” says Terry Flood, creator and director of Jubilee Jobs