The U.S. Catholic Bishops stepped up their campaign against the Senate’s version of the health care bill, saying it needs to change how abortions are covered and funded in order to “make it morally acceptable.” The final Senate vote on the bill is scheduled for Thursday.
ELCA bishops have outlined a number of job creation propositions and delivered them to the White House and Senate.
Five GOP congressman say Uganda’s proposed anti-gay law is antithetical to Christianity are urging the country’s president to veto it. One media report says that President Museveni has already assured Americans that he will veto the bill.
DC is asking a judge to throw out a lawsuit challenging its new gay-marriage law filed by Bishop Harry Jackson, who lives and works in Maryland.
A 76-year-old Catholic priest has spent 18 years in jail for protesting nuclear weapons, and is doing the jailhouse rock again. Another Catholic priest, in South Carolina, won $100,000 at a poker tournament. The bishop of Belleville, Ill., is ordering Catholics to kneel during the Eucharistic prayer. Though many Catholics stand during the prayer, Vatican protocol calls for kneeling. Still, one Monsignor was not happy about the bishop’s order. “When you have the kind of bishop we have, he makes issues out of things that in and of themselves are not that important.”
The Southern Christian Leadership Conference announced the removal of its chairman and treasurer pending an internal investigation, just as MLK’s daughter readies to take the reins.
The Vatican continues to defend moving Pope Pius XII closer to sainthood, despite criticism from some Jews that he didn’t do enough to fight the Nazis. The Vatican newspaper says spirit of “The Simpsons” embiggens the smallest man.
Bethlehem is hosting its first rock festival, but Christmas will be quieter in Iraq where Christians continue to live in fear. “We are living like rats,” says one man. As if to underscore the point, a bomb killed two in a historic church in Mosul on Wednesday, a day before Christmas Eve services.
A British priest said “thou shalt not steal” is not written in stone. French lawmakers are trying to ban the full-face burqa.
