Ron Ribiat
Ron Ribiat is an author at Religion News Service.
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Quote of the Day: Los Angeles Archbishop Jose Gomez
By Ron Ribiat — February 1, 2013
“The behavior described in these files is terribly sad and evil. There is no excuse, no explaining away what happened to these children. The priests involved had the duty to be their spiritual fathers and they failed.” Los Angeles Archbishop Jose Gomez on the cover up of clergy sexual abuse by his predecessor, Cardinal Roger […]
Quote of the Day: Atlanta megachurch pastor Andy Stanley
By Ron Ribiat — January 31, 2013
(RNS) “The fact that we have a President who has views or policies that contradict what we believe as Christians — that should drive us to our knees as a nation, not focus attention on an individual who personifies things we disagree with. That’s not helpful. It’s not going to make any difference. It doesn’t […]
Quote of the Day: Tibetan writer and journalist Tsering Kyi
By Ron Ribiat — January 30, 2013
“Deep down, I too believe that the flames that rose from my nephew’s body will illuminate our struggle for freedom and bring a ray of hope to my suffering homeland.” – Tibetan writer and journalist Tsering Kyi, writing in The Washington Post after her nephew, Tsering Tashi, self-immolated himself in Tibet on Jan. 12 to […]
Quote of the Day: San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone
By Ron Ribiat — January 29, 2013
“Legislating for the right for people of the same sex to marry is like legalizing male breastfeeding.” – San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone, in an interview with The Catholic Herald newspaper.
Quote of the Day: Actress Megan Fox
By Ron Ribiat — January 28, 2013
(RNS) “It feels like a lot of energy coming through the top of your head — I’m going to sound like such a lunatic — and then your whole body is filled with this electric current. And you just start speaking, but you’re not thinking because you have no idea what you’re saying. Words are […]
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 […]
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 […]
Quote of the Day: Python hunter Blake Russ
By Ron Ribiat — January 23, 2013
“We don’t hunt on the Sabbath.” — Blake Russ, quoted in The New York Times. Russ is one of a trio of young Mormons who are among those joining Florida’s “Python Challenge 2013,” aimed at eradicating invasive Burmese pythons in the Everglades.
Quote of the Day: Brooklyn Rabbi Binyahim Tamaiev
By Ron Ribiat — January 22, 2013
(RNS) “I cannot forgive myself. I was in shock. I felt as if somebody died, as if a house burned.” Rabbi Binyahim Tamaiev, after his car was stolen with a $30,000 Torah scroll in the trunk. The car and Torah were later recovered by police. He was quoted by the New York Post.
Quote of the Day: Msgr. Melchor Sanchez de Toca Alameda of the Pontifical Council for Culture
By Ron Ribiat — January 21, 2013
“We want to see lots of cardinals in tracksuits, too.” — Msgr. Melchor Sanchez de Toca Alameda of the Pontifical Council for Culture, which hopes to hold a 100-meter “Race of Faith” — a jog, shuffle or sprint — up the Via della Conciliazione toward St. Peter’s Square during an international conference on values in […]
Quote of the Day: Rabbi David Saperstein and Rabbi Julie Schonfeld
By Ron Ribiat — January 17, 2013
“The challenge that we now must face is not only political; it is also spiritual. It is the challenge to hold before us the human face of Sandy Hook so that out of our national dialogue, we can enact the changes that ensure this will never happen again.” — Rabbi David Saperstein and Rabbi Julie Schonfeld, writing […]
Quote of the Day: The Rev. Louis Leon
By Ron Ribiat — January 16, 2013
“From the moment someone asks you to do that, your wheels are spinning with what to say. So my wheels were spinning now.” — The Rev. Louis Leon, speaking to CNN about being asked to deliver the closing prayer at President Obama’s inauguration.
Quote of the Day: Evangelical Free Church of America President Bill Hamel
By Ron Ribiat — January 15, 2013
“Evangelicals sat on the sidelines in the civil rights discussions but we must not this time!” — Bill Hamel, president of the Evangelical Free Church of America, in a statement supporting an “immigration prayer challenge” to encourage Christians to support immigration reform.
Quote of the Day: Harvard University Professor Robert Putnam
By Ron Ribiat — January 14, 2013
(RNS) “Even with these recent changes the American religious commitments are incredibly stronger than in most other advanced countries in the world. The average American is slightly more religious than the average Iranian, so we are a very religious country even today.” — Harvard University professor Robert Putman, interviewed by NPR’s Morning Edition’s “Losing Our […]
Quote of the Day: Defense attorney Brandon Reish
By Ron Ribiat — January 11, 2013
(RNS) “You can’t take bad behavior, bad science and church gossip and turn them into a murder, let alone two.” — Attorney Brandon Reish, defense lawyer for Pennsylvania pastor Arthur “A.B.” Schirmer, who’s accused of murdering his second wife in 2008 and his first wife in 1999. Reish, who was quoted by The Associated Press, […]
