Monthly Archives: January 2013
Do as we say
By Michael J. O'Loughlin — January 25, 2013
Is the contrast of adoption advocacy with the shuttering of placement programs a symptom of the church's inability to react quickly enough to a new reality?
Pro-lifers need more than PR adjustment
By Mark Silk — January 25, 2013
It's easy to have a field day with that Catholic hospital in Colorado arguing in court that it is not responsible for the death of two seven-month fetuses on the grounds that they were not persons.
Quote of the Day: Turkish Cultural Community of Austria
By Ron Ribiat — January 25, 2013
(RNS) “The terrorist Jabba the Hutt likes to smoke a hookah and have his victims killed. It is clear that the ugly figure of Jabba and the whole scene smacks of racial prejudice and vulgar insinuations against Asians and Orientals as people with deceitful and criminal personalities.” – The Turkish Cultural Community of Austria, in a […]
Isolation leads British Muslims to act like ‘idiots’
By Trevor Grundy — January 25, 2013
LONDON (RNS) The increasing isolation of Britain's Muslim community is leading to stepped-up attacks against Muslims and a sense that Muslims can act like "idiots" against outsiders in some parts of the city, British government and Muslim leaders say.
Catholic hospital under fire for saying fetuses aren’t ‘people’
By Bob Smietana — January 25, 2013
(RNS) A Catholic hospital in Colorado has argued in court documents that it is not liable for the deaths of two 7-month-old fetuses because those fetuses are not people.
N.M. bill would prevent abortions after rape as ‘evidence tampering’
By Michael Winter — January 25, 2013
(RNS) A New Mexico lawmaker has drawn fire for proposing legislation to classify an abortion after a sexual assault as "tampering with evidence."
Catholic college engages atheism head-on
By Ron Csillag — January 25, 2013
TORONTO (RNS) It's an unlikely setting for an unlikely class. The chapel at Jesuit-run Regis College is adorned with stained glass, icons of Mary and Joseph, and the Stations of the Cross. The eight-week course being taught here is on atheism. More properly, "Responding to 21st-Century Atheism.''
Friday’s Religion News Roundup: Jabba’s mosque * ‘Proof’ of rape * Real pastor’s wives of Atlanta
By Kevin Eckstrom — January 25, 2013
Turkish Muslims say Lego's Jabba the Hutt's palace looks too much like a mosque. An independent Catholic newspapers stands up for its, well, independence. TLC takes the idea of Real Housewives into the parsonage.
Perils and politics of inaugural prayers
By Charles C. Haynes — January 25, 2013
Quote of the Day: The Rev. Susan Russell of All Saint’s Church in Pasadena, Calif.
By Ron Ribiat — January 24, 2013
(RNS) “He’s like the Joe Biden of the Episcopal Church. He has the personality and respect that can bring people together.” – The Rev. Susan Russell, an Episcopal priest at All Saint’s Church in Pasadena, Calif., Pasadena, describing the Very Rev. Gary Hall, the new dean of Washington National Cathedral, who previously worked at her […]
Photo Slideshow: America’s least ‘Bible-minded’ cities
By Sally Morrow — January 24, 2013
Somewhere Roger Williams is shaking his head. The California-based Barna Group and the American Bible Society say Providence, R.I., is America's least biblical city, at least based on regular Bible reading and belief in the “accuracy” of the Good Book.
Publishers are in seventh heaven with near-death memoirs
By Craig Wilson — January 24, 2013
(RNS) Heaven is hot -- just ask any bookseller in America. Folks have been going to heaven with amazing regularity lately. They look around then come back to report on the trip. For publishers, it's a lucrative journey.
Vatican defends pope’s Twitter account despite attacks
By Alessandro Speciale — January 24, 2013
VATICAN CITY (RNS) The Vatican on Thursday (Jan. 24) defended Pope Benedict's choice to open an account on Twitter even if it exposes him to insults and abuse.
S.C. Episcopal diocese claims a victory in secession struggle
By Lauren Markoe — January 24, 2013
(RNS) Episcopal conservatives in South Carolina have won the latest round in their effort to secede from the national church after a judge said only the breakaway group can use the name and seal of the Diocese of South Carolina.
Sundance Diary: Imagining the world as it ought to be
By Dick Staub — January 24, 2013
PARK CITY, Utah (RNS) It's said that Hollywood films comfort the afflicted while Sundance films afflict the comfortable. Film offers a vicarious entry to the world the way it is, and the films I saw at Sundance 2013 left me longing for the world as it ought to be.
