by Daniel Burke | Nov 18, 2011 | News
(RNS) The presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church on Thursday (Nov. 17) defended her decision to allow a former Roman Catholic monk to become an Episcopal priest even after he admitted to sexual misconduct with a minor. The Most Rev. Katharine Jefferts Schori has...
by David Finnigan | Nov 18, 2011 | News
LOS ANGELES (RNS) The California Supreme Court handed conservatives a big victory on Thursday (Nov. 17) by allowing them to defend a statewide ban on gay marriage that a federal judge struck down as unconstitutional last year. The court’s 7-0 ruling is a victory for...
by Daniel Burke | Nov 17, 2011 | News
(RNS) A new Roman Catholic structure for Anglican converts in the United States will be formally launched on Jan. 1, Cardinal Donald Wuerl of Washington announced Tuesday (Nov. 15). The structure, technically called an ordinariate, will function like a non-geographic...
by Donna Leinwand | Nov 17, 2011 | News
(RNS) The grand jury report reads like a textbook profile of child sexual abuse. Jerry Sandusky, former assistant football coach at Penn State, allegedly bought one boy golf clubs and a computer, took him swimming at a hotel pool, wrestled with him and invited him to...
by Francis Rocca | Nov 17, 2011 | News
VATICAN CITY (RNS) International clothing retailer Benetton pulled a provocative ad featuring Pope Benedict XVI kissing a Muslim cleric on Wednesday (Nov. 16) after the Vatican threatened legal action to protect the pope’s image. Vatican spokesman Rev. Federico...
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Nov 17, 2011 | News
Arab Baptist Theological Seminary (ABTS) announced the installation of a new solar heating system that will reduce the school’s financial costs and show its commitment to being good stewards of God’s creation. “[U]sing solar and other forms of...
