RNS Morning Report: Trans priest; Imam’s widow; Nuns and nones

Mother Gillian Klee celebrates Mass with a small group of guests at Constance Abbey, a refuge for the homeless in Memphis. RNS photo by Karen Pulfer Focht

Need to know: Wednesday, September 5, 2018

A transgender priest finds a new life helping others on the margins

In the makeshift chapel at Constance Abbey, an Episcopal way station for the homeless here, Mother Gillian Klee restarts her life as a priest, and a woman.

Bobi Wine case heightens tensions between Museveni and Uganda church leaders

Uganda’s government is trying to prevent faith groups from becoming another voice in the country to speak out against its president’s human rights violations.

China’s jaw-dropping family separation policy

Uighur children and parents are being ripped apart on a massive scale. It may rob an entire generation of their Muslim identities.

Has Catholic canon law aggravated the clergy abuse crisis?

Among the potential victims of the Catholic clergy abuse crisis is one whose roots date to the early years of Christianity: the Catholic canon law system.

The Imam’s Widow

Two years later after a gunman killed her husband, a Bangladeshi imam in New York City, her American life has been shrunk to a bare minimum.

What can nuns and ‘nones’ learn from one another?

The Nuns and Nones project aims to find common ground between the two groups, helping both explore new forms of community life and models for sustainable activism.

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