Faith
COMMENTARY: God won’t mind if we laugh at ourselves
IRVINE, Calif. (RNS) In more than 30 years as a believer, I've attended enough "Christian conferences" to expect at least a few of the speakers to be talking out of their ... um ... butts, if you will.
But Hollywood director Tom Shadyac was the first to do so literally when he...
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COMMENTARY: Creating connections by erasing boundaries
NEW YORK (RNS) I sat with my gospel choir colleagues, in a pew, while the host choir at Park Avenue Synagogue rehearsed a lovely Psalm setting in Hebrew.
Some sang the Hebrew text with ease, some with difficulty -- a reminder that faith generally means learning a language other...
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Church leaders tackle the stigma of mental illness
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (RNS) The Rev. Frank Page, former president of the Southern Baptist Convention, was getting ready to work in the yard in th...
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Vatican cardinal says he was sidelined in crackdown of U.S. nuns
VATICAN CITY (RNS) The head of the Vatican department that oversees men's and women's religious orders says he was left in the dark about the Vatican investigation that led to the makeover of the largest umbrella group for American nuns.
In a story first reported by National Catho...
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3 more resign in scandal swirling around accused N.J. priest
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COLTS NECK, N.J. (RNS) The pastor and two youth ministers at a Catholic church where a visiting priest violated a lifetime...
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Yoga prodigy seeks joy and finds it
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LAGUNA BEACH, Calif. (RNS) Class began at dusk in a dimly lit studio facing Pacific Coast Highway as the yoga t...
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Accused priest at center of N.J. scandal resigns
NEWARK, N.J. (RNS) The Roman Catholic priest at the center of a public furor enveloping Newark Archbishop John J. Myers has resigned from ministry, a spokesman for the archdiocese said Thursday (May 2).
The Rev. Michael Fugee, who attended youth retreats and heard confessions from...
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Beneath stereotypes, a stressful life for preachers’ kids
(RNS) The day Franklin Graham was born, he received a telegram.
"Welcome to this sin-sick world," the Western Union message said, "and to the challenge you have to walk in your daddy's footsteps."
It didn't take long for Graham, the son of famed evangelist Billy Graham, to reali...
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Pope Francis welcomes Benedict XVI back to the Vatican
VATICAN CITY (RNS) Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI returned to the Vatican on Thursday (May 2), where he will live a few hundred meters from his successor, Pope Francis, in an arrangement that has no precedent in the history of the Catholic Church.
Benedict, 86, flew by helicopter...
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Benedict XVI to return to the Vatican on Thursday
VATICAN CITY (RNS) More than two months after his resignation, Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI will return to the Vatican on Thursday (May 2) to live in a small retrofitted convent.
Benedict's return will present the Vatican with the unprecedented situation of a reigning pope and a...
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