by Daniel Burke | Jul 15, 2011 | News
WASHINGTON (RNS) The Lutheran denomination that GOP presidential candidate Rep. Michele Bachmann quit in June sought to explain its belief that the papacy is the anti-Christ after reports questioned whether Bachmann is anti-Catholic. Six days before Bachmann...
by Daniel Burke | Jun 30, 2011 | News
BALTIMORE (RNS) A recent Sunday service at the First Unitarian Church of Baltimore ended with an apology. Laurel Mendes explained that religious doctrine had been duly scrubbed from the hymns in the congregation’s Sunday program. But Mendes, a neo-pagan lay member who...
by Daniel Burke | Jun 24, 2011 | News
(RNS) A United Methodist minister was suspended for 20 days by a church court in Wisconsin on Thursday (June 23) for performing a same-sex union in 2009, a breach of denominational rules. A 13-member jury of local United Methodist clergy voted 9-4 to suspend the Rev....
by Daniel Burke | Jun 21, 2011 | News
(RNS) United Methodists will begin a trial Tuesday (June 21) against a Wisconsin minister who’s accused of breaking church rules by celebrating a same-sex marriage and being in a lesbian relationship. The Rev. Amy DeLong, 44, of Osceola, Wis., could be defrocked if...
by Daniel Burke | Jun 17, 2011 | News
BELLEVUE, Wash. (RNS) The nation’s Roman Catholic bishops on Thursday voted overwhelmingly to maintain current church policies on the sexual abuse of children, making only minor tweaks to guidelines that critics say contain large loopholes. The bishops voted 187-5,...
