Monthly Archives: October 2009
Friday’s religion round up
By Daniel Burke — October 31, 2009
The nation’s Catholic bishops are mounting a last minute push to secure an anti-abortion amendment in health care legislation and Christian Scientists say spiritual care should be covered in the bill. Bernice King, the daughter of MLK, was elected president of the SCLC. Federal officials have met with Detroit-area Muslim leaders after the fatal shooting […]
Archdiocese of Miami bans conservative Catholic movement
By Tracy Gordon — October 30, 2009
(RNS) The Archdiocese of Miami has banned the Legionaries of Christ, a conservative Catholic movement, saying it broke a promise to restrict its ministry to members and was “involved” in several schools without approval. In an Oct. 29 letter to Miami priests, Monsignor Michael Souckar, the archdiocese’s chancellor, said individual priests belonging to the Legionaries […]
King’s daughter to lead civil rights group
By Tracy Gordon — October 30, 2009
(RNS) The Rev. Bernice King, the youngest daughter of the late Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., has been elected as the next president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), the civil rights organization announced Friday (Oct. 30). King will be the first woman president of the organization, which was co-founded by her father, and […]
Christian college bars `Milk’ writer from talking about gays
By Tracy Gordon — October 30, 2009
HOLLAND, Mich. (RNS) An Oscar-winning filmmaker can speak to Hope College students about his craft — but not gay rights, college leaders say. Dustin Lance Black, who won an Academy Award for original screenplay for “Milk,” is in the Holland area directing a new film, and students requested a screening followed by a forum discussion […]
Artist paints Jesus at center of American history
By Tracy Gordon — October 30, 2009
WASHINGTON (RNS) For centuries, Jesus has been a subject of choice for countless artists. But it’s fair to say that seldom has he been depicted quite like this. In artist Jon McNaughton’s “One Nation Under God,” Jesus stands front and center at the nation’s capitol, holding the Constitution and surrounded by historical luminaries like George […]
Married Anglo-Catholic priests?
By Mark Silk — October 30, 2009
If this is right, not so many. The pope’s personal ordinariate to the Anglicans would then permit existing married Anglican priests to be grandfathered in as married Catholic clergy, but you wouldn’t be able to be freshly ordained as an Anglo-Catholic priest. Which is to say, this wouldn’t be the same deal as the Eastern […]
Wallis on abortion and health care reform
By Mark Silk — October 30, 2009
Over on Religion Dispatches, Sarah Posner cornered Jim Wallis on where he actually stands on abortion these days, and here’s what he told her: “I believe the best response to abortion is not to criminalize what, I believe, is often a tragic and desperate choice; but rather to find effective and proven solutions to reduce […]
Benedictine Radicalism
By Mark Silk — October 30, 2009
Over at the WaPo/Georgetown kaffeeklatsch, Hoya gov prof Patrick J. Deneen (inspired by Dr. Robert Moynihan’s latest newsflash from Rome) argues that Pope Benedict (like the late Mobutu Sese Seko of Zaire) is neither left, right, nor center, but a radical seeking to marshal a smaller, tougher, and more traditionalist Christianity against the barbarism of […]
Gunman shoots, wounds two at Los Angeles synagogue
By Tracy Gordon — October 30, 2009
(RNS) Synagogues in Los Angeles were on high alert Thursday (Oct. 29) after a gunman shot two men heading to morning prayers in the city’s North Hollywood neighborhood. Two men were in the underground parking lot of Adat Yeshurun Valley Sephardic synagogue when they were shot by a man in a black, hooded sweatshirt, according […]
Physicians give chaplains a clean bill of health
By Tracy Gordon — October 30, 2009
(RNS) Science and faith may often clash, but a new survey suggests that most American doctors believe religion and spirituality can help patients. Published Monday (Oct. 26) in the Archives of Internal Medicine, the survey found that 90 percent of physicians are satisfied with spiritual services provided by hospital chaplains to their patients. While most […]
A new survey suggests that most of America’s doctors believe religion and spirituality can hel
By Tracy Gordon — October 30, 2009
Westboro Church to protest military funeral in Ohio
By Tracy Gordon — October 30, 2009
PAINESVILLE, Ohio. (RNS) Followers of the controversial Westboro Baptist Church plan to protest outside the funeral of Lance Corporal David Baker here on Saturday morning. Baker, 22, of Painesville Township, was killed Oct. 20 while on patrol in the Helmand Province of Afghanistan. Shirley Phelps-Roper, one of the picket leaders for the Kansas church, said […]
Lutherans ask forgiveness for 16th-century persecutions
By Tracy Gordon — October 30, 2009
GENEVA (RNS/ENI) Lutheran World Federation leaders plan to apologize for their ancestors’ 16th-century persecution of Anabaptists, religious reformers whose successors include Mennonites and the Amish. “We ask for forgiveness — from God and from our Mennonite sisters and brothers — for the harm that our forebears in the sixteenth century committed to Anabaptists,” says a […]
Women explore religious roots in new books
By Tracy Gordon — October 30, 2009
(RNS) When you’ve lived as the holiest of the holy, coming back to Earth can be an unpleasant re-entry. You enter the ranks of the unsaved only to find you have much more in common with the godless than you might have thought. Even if you never leave the ranks of America’s evangelicals, you might […]
On hot-button issues, the UCC is anything but cold
By Tracy Gordon — October 30, 2009
CLEVELAND (RNS) When it comes to hot-button political issues, the United Church of Christ is anything but wishy-washy. Its new general minister and president, the Rev. Geoffrey Black, has delivered 17,000 petition signatures to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, urging health-care reform — including coverage for all and access regardless of ability to pay. Its outgoing […]
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