This past Wednesday night (17th), Bishop Barahona, along two of his closest working partners, was victim of the violence that has held this country imprisoned.
Haitian people are people of hope. They hope for a better future. The church has lost everything that it has; all the buildings are down. In all this, at the site of churches, you can go every Sunday and find many people gathered for worship. The church is there even though there are no buildings. We are there, the people are there.
…it’s not a matter of acquiescing to a more inclusive future for the sake of those who have been on the outside. It is rather a matter of embracing opportunities that give us all a future as a community – a community of mystery and reason, of determined commitment and unconditional love.
The Department of Homeland Security recently gave Haitians living in the United States prior to the Jan. 12 earthquake permission to apply for Temporary Protected Status, which would allow them to obtain 18-month work visas.
The Rev. Mary E. Haddad told her congregation at All Saints’ Episcopal Church in Beverly Hills: “Remember the Sabbath and keep it aerobic.”
One post per day on sexual abuse in the Catholic Church ought to be sufficient to encompass breaking news. But today — which just happens
When the Baptists officially apologized in 1995 for supporting slavery they began to affiliate existing Black congregations as a way of speeding up the reconciliation. By 2008, 20% of congregations were ethnic minority and a million members were African American. This led to apparent membership increases, but was in fact an artifact of the accounting procedures.
AP: in a rare public disagreement that will reverberate among the nation’s 70 million Catholics, leaders of religious orders representing 59,000 nuns sent lawmakers a
The Office of Episcopal Church Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori has notified the Diocese of Los Angeles that the canonical consent process for Bishop-Elect Mary Douglas Glasspool has been successfully completed.
There is always tension between the possibilities we aspire to and our wounded memories and past mistakes. Saint Patrick, our national Apostle, our patron Saint, knew this tension throughout his life. We recall the famous opening words of his Confession: ‘I, Patrick, a sinner, and the least of all the faithful’. – Cardinal Seán Brady, Homily at the Mass for St Patrick’s Day