Simon Sarmiento of Thinking Anglicans has an excellent round-up of recent developments in Nigeria’s attempts to ban gay marriage–which is already illegal.
Roman Catholic and Orthodox Jewish officials in New York are mounting an intense lobbying effort to block a bill before the State Legislature that would temporarily lift the statute of limitations for lawsuits alleging the sexual abuse of children.
It is easy to be thankful when everything is going well. But how to be thankful when things are not going so well? The company is on shaky ground and the job may disappear; the kids are going through a really rough time; the economy appears as unstable as it has been in many years; people we love are seriously ill or have died; the future is uncertain. What can I say to those suffering, to you, about these things in your lives?
Gregory the Great, writing over five hundred years after Paul, composed one of the first manuals on pastoral care and Christian leadership. This work, sent by Gregory to Leander of Seville, was highly praised and enjoyed a wide readership, including Alfred the Great and Charlemagne.
In a letter to bishops worldwide, the pope says that the internet should have been used to check backgrounds, and that the reasons for lifting
KRDO News in Colorado Springs, Colorado reports that the trial to resolve ownership over a multi-million dollar church is one step closer to being decided.
Radio Iowa: Some religious leaders in Des Moines Tuesday called on the Iowa Congressional delegation to support legislation that would give the U.S. Food and
The City Room blog at the New York Times discovers a thrift shop on 10th Avenue run by St. Clement’s Episcopal Church around the corner
Rev Patrick Alumake told the National Assembly the top leadership of the Catholic church in Nigeria supported the bill wholeheartedly. Children wearing T-shirts that said “Same sex marriage is un-natural and un-African”, and “same sex marriage is an abomination” stood in the aisles of the committee room.
“What do I do with this cup? And then I realized it’s not my cup; it’s not for me to choose who is fit to receive the blood of Christ, so I gave it to her.”