The Catholic Church in Belgium has been battered by scandals and missteps over the past year, and now its new leader, the conservative Archbishop André-Joseph Léonard of Brussels, has sparked a fresh controversy with comments declaring that people afflicted with AIDS are receiving “a sort of immanent justice” for their sexual practices.
Our advice, based on what happened a year ago: If someone should wake the Archbishop in the middle of the night and ask him to read a statement, he should kindly demur and get more sleep.
A church serving a university community has its particular challenges, not the least of which has been social media and its effect on Millennial-generation thinking.
Katharine Jefferts Schori today joined His Holiness the Dalai Lama at Emory University for an interfaith summit, “Understanding and Promoting Happiness in Today’s Society.”
It sounds like the future, but it’s happening now: “cryopreservation” has yielded a baby born after developmental suspension lasting 19 years, 7 months.
Who’s retweeting the Episcopal Cafe? Lots of people. Here’s what’s afoot in our social media spaces this week.
Broadhurst’s distaste for C of E politics will come as no surprise to those who’ve watched with the least interest. In February he said on BBC’s HARDtalk that “the Anglican experiment is … over,” and a few months later he was noted as one of those planning for an ordinariate in secret meetings between three CoE bishops and advisers to Pope Benedict XVI.
The Church Times reports that the diocese of Sydney plans to proceed with plans to permit Deacons to preside at the Eucharist.
A requirement to have clients prove that they are impoverished could get in the way of the work of San Francisco area food pantries.
CNN asks whether the newfound faith of the 33 rescued miners in Chile will stick. The answer is “maybe, maybe not.”