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Vatican praises bloggers as church's `public opinion'
VATICAN CITY (RNS) The pope may not be ready to start a blog or a
Twitter account, but the Vatican is taking note of the unruly world of...
Justices sidestep Catholics' case against San Francisco
WASHINGTON (RNS) The Supreme Court on Monday (May 2) declined to hear a
Catholic group's appeal accusing San Francisco supervisors of violating...
What I learned from the royal wedding (and why I want a queen)
I’m not ashamed to say...
Who's in hell
Even
before Rob Bell's book Love Wins (see
the Century review
by Peter Marty)...
Fear and relief
We are right to feel a sense of relief that a major source of evil has been removed. But we should reflect also on the flip side of that relief: the nature of our fears.
Betting on a generous God
Rob Bell fights every impulse in our culture to domesticate Jesus, reminding
readers that Christians do not believe in Christianity; they believe in
the Christ who wants to "draw all people" to himself.
Safeguarding women’s health
Imagine you are a young mother living paycheck to paycheck, with no
health insurance. Where would you go for a pregnancy test? For treatment
of a sexually transmitted disease? To obtain contraceptives? In each
case, the answer for millions of Americans is Planned Parenthood.
John Paul put one step below sainthood
VATICAN CITY (RNS) The late Pope John Paul II, who elevated
unprecedented numbers of Catholic saints and blesseds during his 26-year...
Unitarians drop Jefferson's name from Southeast group
DURHAM, N.C. (RNS) To many Americans, Thomas Jefferson is a symbol of
liberty and religious freedom, the architect of American democracy and a...
Vatican removes Australian bishop who said he was open to ordaining women
Rome, May 2 (ENInews)--The Vatican on 2 May announced that it relieved Australian bishop William Morris of his post, five years after he published a letter interpreted to indicate that he would be ...
Presbyterians expect fewer full-time pastors
More signs of tough times: Large majorities of Presbyterians expect that a decreasing number of their churches will be led by full-time pastors....
Seminary enrollments showing upturn
Total enrollment is up for the first time in four years at seminaries of the Association of Theological Schools—thanks to the addition of 11 new schools to the roster of North America's accre...
Nancy Hardesty, pioneer evangelical feminist, dies
Nancy A. Hardesty, one of the founders of evangelical Christian feminism, died April 8 in Atlanta after two years of treatment for pancreatic cancer. She was 69....
Study links reliance on God with reliance on treatment
(RNS) Cancer patients who consider the length of their lives to be "in
God's hands" are more willing than others to spend money on treatments...
Religious leaders react to death of bin Laden
After President Obama announced that al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden
had been shot dead in Pakistan, ebullient crowds gathered outside the...
Small things and miracles
I am not a particularly confident pastor and preacher. I don't think I am neurotic about it, but I do harbor my own sense of doubt. It's not that the doubt freezes me in place and keeps me from functioning. It's more the kind of doubt that sits off in the corner somewhere, creeping up now and then to poke at me, asking questions like, Does anything you do really make a difference?
The smaller gathering across the Potomac
There’s no doubt that Osama bin Laden had been living on borrowed time ever since 9/11 rendered him America's public enemy number one....
Certified Copy
Certified Copy, the first English-language film by the Iranian writer-director Abbas Kiarostami, is a road-trip meditation on the complexities of marriage....
Evangelical icon David Wilkerson dies in car crash
(RNS) Evangelist David Wilkerson, who wrote the popular book "The Cross
and the Switchblade" and founded New York's Times Square Church, died in...