Source: The New York Times By SHARON OTTERMAN and SAMANTHA SCHMIDT The Archdiocese of New York has established an independent programthat will allow victims of sexual abuse by members of […]
Source: The Associated Press By GRACE GARCES BORDALLO and JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER HAGATNA, Guam (AP) — Atop a lofty hill overlooking the ocean in the U.S. territory of Guam, a […]
Reuters International OCT 2, 2016 – Archbishop of Rouen Dominique Lebrun is seen next to a picture of Father Jacques Hamel, the French priest knifed to death at his altar by Islamist militants in July, during a media conference at the Vatican, September 14, 2016. REUTERS/Stefano Rellandini (reuters_tickers) PARIS (Reuters) […]
In Forged, Ehrman reveals: The Apostle Peter was illiterate, and therefore could not have written two letters (1 & 2 Peter) credited to him in the Bible. Six of the […]
Source: The New York Times By SAM ROBERTS Archbishop Peter L. Gerety, who as a liberal leader of the Roman Catholic Church in America gave voice to the laity, to […]
Source: Crux BY John L. Allen Jr. September 25, 2016 EDITOR Towards the end of Amoris Laetitia, Pope Francis’s document on the family, the pontiff writes that when priests have to make […]
Source: Associated Press By GRACE GARCES BORDALLO HAGATNA, Guam (AP) — Guam Gov. Eddie Calvo said Friday he signed a bill that would lift the statute of limitations on child […]
Source: http://euuc.org/congregation/ahmadiyya-muslim-community.php Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Abode of Kindness Mosque invited us for 9/11 The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community of Monroe invited the Edmonds Unitarian Universalist Congregation to conduct our Sunday morning service within their sacred space on Sept. 11, 2016. Together our two communities have a long relationship of joining efforts for […]
Charles Mercier September 20, 2016 CATHOLIC NEWS AGENCY Just a few miles away from war and genocide, two priestly ordinations last Friday in Iraqi Kurdistan, and the celebrations they triggered, […]
Source: The Guardian By Stephanie Kirchgaessner in Rome Pope Francis has issued a remarkable endorsement of major changes in the way priests approach Catholics who are divorced and remarried, in a […]
Sep 07,2016 -JORDAN TIMES – EDITORIAL Heads of 22 regional churches met on the Dead Sea shores and agreed on the need for a unified ecclesiastical voice of Middle Eastern churches as an instrument for entrenching peace, tolerance and acceptance, greatly needed in the climate of death and atrocity much of the […]
Source: The New York Times By Nicholas Kristof ONE puzzle of the world is that religions often don’t resemble their founders. Jesus never mentioned gays or abortion but focused on the […]
Source: RNS By Emily McFarlan Miller NORTHBROOK, Illinois (RNS) Her whole life, Susan Vaickauski felt an internal struggle. But earlier this summer, as Vaickauski lay prostrate at the foot of […]
Source: USA Today Catholic Charities announced Thursday it is closing its adoption services and pregnancy counseling. The agency only placed two children in adoptive homes in 2015. Historically low teenage pregnancy rates and greater acceptance of single parenting has meant there was less need for the services. “The world has […]
Source: The Washington Post By Julie Zauzmer Greg Zingler watched a movie about Mother Teresa six years ago and was awed by the world-famous nun’s compassionate service to the poor. He went […]
Source: Los Angeles Time What do you do when you find yourself in an unhappy marriage but live in a country where there is no divorce? You go on Facebook […]
Source: Reuters By Kathryn Doyle (Reuters Health) – According to interviews with U.S. physicians, some Roman Catholic hospitals not only refuse to provide some women’s health services like abortion, but may also prevent doctors from referring women to facilities that would provide them. Services including sterilization, contraception and fertility services […]
Source: RNS By Emily McFarlan Miller (RNS) Nearly 500 years after Martin Luther nailed his 95 theses to the Castle Church door, the largest Lutheran denomination in the U.S. has approved […]
Source: Religion News Service SAN NICOLAS DE LOS ARROYOS, Argentina (RNS) Once a month, thousands of devout Catholics descend on this small industrial city, where a woman with little education […]
Source: The Guardian By Harriet Sherwood Religion correspondent A Catholic priest and former children’s home worker has been jailed for 12 years after admitting the sexual abuse of 13 children dating back to the 1970s. Philip Temple, 66, was sentenced at Woolwich crown court after pleading guilty to 20 charges of […]