Bridgeport Bishop William E. Lori said: “The state has no right to interfere in the internal affairs and structure of the Catholic Church. This bill is directed only at the Catholic Church, but would someday be forced on other denominations. The state has no business controlling religion.”
Just as I told my children about the Civil Rights Movement, my parents told me about the Great Depression. I heard about the grandfather who lost a farm because he co-signed a note for a less provident brother, the grandfather who kept a farm because a New Deal program enabled him to pay a mortgage note just in the nick of time and a once prosperous great-grandfather who managed to pay off all his depositors in his small town bank before dying a broken man.
There are many voices competing for our attention in the world today—our families, our coworkers, the homeless and hungry, our politicians. We hear voices hounding us to buy more goods and services, voices instilling fear, hopeful voices, cynical voices, vengeful voices, our own voice of self-preservation.
Purim commemorates the Jewish people’s escape from total annihilation by the Persian Empire in the 4th century B.C., as told in the biblical Book of Esther.
Religion Dispatches reports on a movement organized by Muslim women to ensure that Muslim family law recognizes and operationalizes the equality of women within the
A 2008 Gallup poll finds moral objections to embryonic stem cell research are relatively slack. It shows that more than 6 in 10 Americans say that the research is moral, while just 3 in 10 say it’s morally wrong.
The Anglican Churches of the Central Interior announces that after two ballots the delegates of the Anglican Parishes of the Central Interior elected The Rev.
..water is central to our understanding of God’s relationship to the world, carrying the image of renewal, promise, and hope…
The Church of Ireland, a progressive province of the Anglican Communion, has grown by 50% in the last few years.
What was it that allowed me to hold this antipathy all these years? Then I hit upon it: All three of these people had, at one time, made me feel very small and unworthy. God has made us so vulnerable, particularly when we are young. An unkind word, a public humiliation, a thoughtless putdown can stay with us over the course of our lives.