The result from the Knights of Columbus survey cannot be explained by the inclusion of nonpracticing Catholics: amongst practicing Catholics 63% back legal recognition of gay unions.
In the presidential and VP debates, the candidates have been asked which of their promises would have to go in light of the financial crisis?
At the Research & Statistics page you can access three news files that add attendance for 2006: Average Sunday Attendance by Province & Diocese 1996-2006
The latest attendance numbers for the Episcopal Church are now available. At the Growth and Development page you can access figures through 2007 by diocese
Archbishop Njongo Ndungane is the Chief Commissioner during the 2008 Poverty Hearings in South Africa. He writes writes of the human emergency in his country:
Ruth Gledhill: Of the 25 congregations understood to be interested, several are already outside the formal structures of the established church, having failed to win recognition from their local diocese. A new structure would also bring these congregations into the fold. It would be run under the auspices of the Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans….
The local church still reverberates with the decision to host the service. The town saw the horror of those who hate gay men embodied in a group of church people who stood outside in the park across the street. As the adults and children held up their explicit hate filled signs – others from the community dressed as angels and held up their huge white wings to shield the family and other mourners.
In explaining the nature of union to me, He said: “Don’t think, daughter, that union lies in being very close to me. For those, too, who offend me are close, although they may not want to be.
There have, indeed, been missionaries who, almost immediately after their arrival, having picked up a few broken phrases, commenced, as they supposed, to preach the Gospel to the heathen, but which preaching most likely consisted in nothing more than uttering some sounds wholly unintelligible to the hearers.
As the news from Wall Street keeps rolling in, you have to wonder at the timing of it all. Not because of the connection with the anniversary of Black Tuesday coming soon. But because of the connection with the readings that we are currently hearing from Exodus in the Revised Common Lectionary.