O Christ our God, bless this food and this drink of your servants with a spiritual blessing, and make us healthy in soul and body; so that as we enjoy the food our bodies require in the modesty appropriate to our religious calling, we may share in your infinite blessings, and in the kingdom of heaven, together with your saints.
Updated, March 28, The Economist: The participants were not asked directly how religious they were but, rather, about how they used any religious belief they
Many in need of a kidney transplant die before they ever get to the top of the queue waiting for transplants. The problem would not
We write to highlight our concerns related to the global financial crisis, U.S. trade policy, and the effect of these two factors on developing countries and poverty. It is unusual for the development, faith-based, and business communities to write a joint letter to the Administration and Congress, but the current global financial crisis warrants such common efforts.
Some baffling discoveries led Bernard d’Espagnat to believe all creation has a wholeness and interrelatedness… One of these is entanglement, the way that paired subatomic particles remain linked even if they move far apart, so that experimenting with one automatically effects the other without any apparent communication between them.
Philip Pullam has debated with, among others, the former Bishop of Oxford, Richard Harries, the local atheist, Richard Dawkins, and the Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams. Of the last, he says, with unmistakable awe in his voice: “Oh, I would not dare take my life in my hands by arguing with him. He is far too clever for me – I am a storyteller and that’s the beginning and end of it.”
For the prescribed forty days coincide in time with that season of the year when nature experiences a thaw; it is the business of fasting to produce a thaw in our soul. This is not a coincidence. God is sketching His will for us through the living motions of nature.
The Times reports that the Vatican press office has altered the words of the Pope who had said to reporters Aids was a “tragedy that
We are especially concerned about those who are using large sums of money to lure our youth to see homosexuality and lesbianism as normative. – Peter Akinola