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Pope Francis arrives at the annual Bishops’ Conference in the Synod hall at the Vatican, Monday, May 21, 2018. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
Need to know: Tuesday, May 22, 2018
Pope laments ‘hemorrhaging’ of priests and nuns in Europe
Pope Francis voiced alarm at the "hemorrhaging" of nuns and priests in Europe, saying many monasteries, convents and churches will close as fewer people are called to lives of religious service.
Episcopalians reflect on staying power of ‘the sermon that stole the show’
Bishop Michael Curry’s address at the royal wedding may be numbered among history’s great sermons "because of who he is, what he said, where he said it and how he said it."
Locked and loaded for the Lord
After the Rev. Sun Myung Moon died in 2012, his church split and two of his sons established a new congregation whose pillar dogma is owning a semi-automatic. (Subscription may be required.)
Miroslav Volf delves into the theology of joy: A Q&A
"Joy is elicited when something good comes our way and, for the most part, when that good is unbidden, when it comes in a kind of gratuitous way," says the Yale theologian.
What’s so good about original sin?
The doctrine is an expression of humility, a resolution to face our own imperfections, writes Crispin Sartwell of Dickinson College. (Subscription may be required.)
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