Sunday, 19 May 2024

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Thomas C. Oden is a prominent theologian who formerly was a major practitioner of liberal, modernist theology. But then, after reading the Church Fathers, he did an about face, turning to orthodox, historical Christianity. He tells his story in A Change of Heart: A Personal and Theological Memoir.
This is the most stimulating and illuminating book that I have read in a long time, giving an inside look at the construction of liberal theology, explaining what happened to mainstream Protestantism, ..

London church saves public over £300k per year through homeless work

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A church in north London is saving the public purse over £300,000 per year by offering a home to 50 destitute men addicted to drugs or alcohol or suffering mental health problems, according to a new report.

The Highway House church in Tottenham has been running the project for seven years and, according to the Institute for Health and Human Development at the University of East London, for every £1 invested, £5-£8 is returned to society.

Members of the church's congr..

Pope Francis: I will not bow to conservative critics

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Pope Francis delivers the Angelus prayer in Saint Peter's Square at the Vatican.

Pope Francis has pledged he will not be deterred from making changes by the strong rhetoric of the ultra-conservative wing of the Catholic Church. But nor will he chop off their heads, he said.

There are some people in the Church who say no to everything, he admitted.

He will not live in fear of them or go around looking over his shoulder, but nor will he fight them. “I don't chop off heads. Tha..

Ex Pope Benedict says he stopped Vatican’s ‘powerful gay lobby’

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Pope Benedict XVI at his last general audience in St Peter's Square at the Vatican on February 27, 2013. He resigned from the papacy the following day.

Former Pope Benedict says in his memoirs that no-one pressured him to resign but alleges that a “gay lobby” in the Vatican had tried to influence decisions, a leading Italian newspaper reported on Friday.

The book, called The Last Conversations, is the first time in history that a former pope judges his own pontificate after it is o..

Faith leaders condemn rise in racial hatred after EU referendum

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The Archbishop of Canterbury greets Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis at Lambeth Palace

The three main faith leaders in Britain have warned against the growing amount of “racial hatred” in the wake of the EU referendum.

In a letter to The Times, the Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby, Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis and Archbishop of Westminster Cardinal Vincent Nichols, say that in times of uncertainty it is normal for people instinctively to crave the familiar.

But they say fear must not be allowed to breed mistrust of “the other”.

“So many of the political, social and economic consequences of the result of the European Union referendum remain unknown but, in less than a week, increasing reports of intercommunal discord and racial hatred are cause for the gravest concern,” they say.

Much lies outside individual control, but everyone can conquer their instinct to blame others.

Pope Francis wants ‘prayers and tears’ not a sermon at Auschwitz death camp

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Pope Francis in St Peter's Square yesterday

Pope Francis wants to mark the deaths of six million Jews and millions of other minorities with tears and prayers when he visits the Auschwitz Nazi death camp in Poland at the end of this month.

He has dropped his original plan to preach a homily.

The Pope will visit Auschwitz-Birkenau on July 29, when he will be in Poland for the World Youth Day celebrations.

He had intended to speak at the international monument at Birkenau. St John P..

Church calls for underage sexual assault victims to be named

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A Kansas church is asking for the identity of two under-age girls who were the victims of sexual assault at a holiday Bible school to be revealed by the court.

Westside Family Church of Lenexa has accused the girls' family of a “Pearl Harbor-styled barrage of negative publicity,” Baptist News Global reports, after the family “tactically decided to 'draw fist blood' on the issue publicly” by leaking the story to the press before notifying..

Ultra-conservative Society of St Pius X accuses Pope Francis of causing Church ‘painful confusion’

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An ultra-conservative Roman Catholic group has apparently abandoned efforts to reconcile with Rome after accusing Pope Francis of causing 'painful confusion' on Wednesday.

ReutersBishop Bernard Fellay, Superior General of the Society of St Pius X, ordains a priest during a ceremony in Econe, southwest Switzerland.

The controversial Society of St Pius X has said it “does not now primarily seek a canonical recognition” from the Vatican.

The society, founded by the late French Archbish..

Church pastor accused of seeking sex with minor commits suicide

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The pastor of First Christian Church, Jeffersonville, has committed suicide days after being arrested for seeking sex with a minor.

A pastor charged with seeking sex with a minor committed suicide on Monday.

David James Brown, 46, a pastor from Jeffersonville, Indiana, was caught arranging a sexual encounter with a minor by an undercover investigator.

Brown travelled to Frankfort on June 15 to meet with who he thought was a minor, but was the undercover officer who had spoken to Brown..

Pope Benedict endorses Pope Francis in rare public appearance

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Former pope Benedict is greeted by Pope Francis during athe ceremony to mark his 65th anniversary of ordination to the priesthood at the Vatican June 28, 2016.

Former Pope Benedict publicly endorsed Pope Francis and his ministry in a Vatican ceremony celebrating the 65th anniversary of his ordination to the priesthood on Tuesday.

Benedict XVI, an 89-year-old German, stood without a cane for part of a ceremony in the Clementine Hall of the Apostolic Palace.

But Benedict, in h..

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