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Author: Jim Naughton

Southern Cone stonewalls Kearon over interventions

October 14, 2010 16 Comments

“I wrote to the Primate of the Southern Cone … asking him for clarification as to the current state of his interventions into other provinces. I have not received a response. Consequently, I have written to the person from the Province of the Southern Cone who is a member of the Inter Anglican Standing Commission on Unity Faith and Order … withdrawing his membership and inviting him to serve as a Consultant to that body.” – The Revd Canon Dr. Kenneth Kearon.

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Colbert has faith

October 14, 2010 No Comments

There are still folks who don’t know that Steven Colbert is an active Catholic. As he puts it, ” “I love my church, and I’m

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The Church and the state of gay rights in Kenya

October 14, 2010 1 Comment

The Kenya Government presented its second periodic report on compliance with the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights in 2005, to the United Nations Human Rights Committee, and cited the differences and conflicts within the Anglican Church and communion and the strong homophobic stance of the African Anglican Bishops as one of the factors it was considering in framing its policy towards same sex relations.

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Education in mission

October 14, 2010 No Comments

Samuel Isaac Joseph Schereschewsky, who had lived in Peking for several years laying the foundations of a deep knowledge of the Chinese language, was elected Bishop of Shanghai in 1875, after Bishop Williams’ withdrawal to Japan. He declined the bishopric at first, but yielded his wish when elected a second time in 1876.

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Order out of chaos

October 13, 2010 No Comments

In its loving description of the most ordinary events like sleeping and the most ordinary objects like knives, the Rule of St. Benedict invites a rich way of seeing. Your hours of sleep continue the rhythm of the Rule, made holy by the act of consecration of your life to God. Your trip to the supermarket is a pilgrimage.

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Connecting the Nobel prize in economics to (mis)placement of priests

October 12, 2010 No Comments

Our previous item on the placement practices of the Catholic Diocese of Chicago can be looked at from the perspective of the Nobel prize in economics awarded for work in job matching. Why might priests who have been credibly accused of child abuse be assigned to churches in neighborhoods where there are a relatively high proportion of minorities, and relatively low income?

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Pointing the finger

October 12, 2010 1 Comment

The threat of a single fundamentalist pastor to burn Islam’s holy book in a tiny never-heard-from-before church in Florida made international headlines recently. This incident broke open the raw areas in our collective consciousness where freedom of speech, religious conscience, and common decency meet. But it also reflected back to us our deep tendency to blame others for our ills.

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The Spirit in nature

October 12, 2010 No Comments

The truth of universal force is recognized by science as a physical fact; it becomes in poetry a spiritual law. It follows that the delight of the poets centres no longer in permanent scenes, but dwells rather on those constantly shifting and successive manifestations of power which forever struggle to shadow forth to us the ideal beauty that lies beyond our senses’ ken.

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