by Francis Rocca | Jun 13, 2011 | News
VATICAN CITY (RNS) Catholics forced to participate in ordinations of bishops without the pope’s approval may be exempt from the usual penalty of automatic excommunication, the Vatican said on Friday (June 10). Bishops who consecrate other bishops without a papal...
by Al Webb | Jun 13, 2011 | News
LONDON (RNS) Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams has touched off a fury by accusing the British government of causing widespread “anxiety and anger” with its new austerity budget. The leader of the world’s 77 million Anglicans crossed swords with the government of...
by Adelle Banks | Jun 13, 2011 | News
(RNS) The National Association of Evangelicals is siding with Jews and Muslims in opposition of a proposed ban on infant male circumcision in San Francisco. “Jews, Muslims, and Christians all trace our spiritual heritage back to Abraham. Biblical circumcision begins...
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Jun 13, 2011 | News
Faith leaders around the country are speaking up about Alabama’s crackdown on undocumented immigrants. Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley signed into law last week the nation’s toughest anti-immigration law, surpassing Arizona’s, and some religious leaders...
by Cecile Holmes | Jun 10, 2011 | News
(RNS) Jeremiah Scott was 11 when the abuse and molestation began in 1990 at the hands of an elder in his Mormon church in Portland, Ore. After the man died in 1995, Scott’s mother sued the church in 1998 for putting her son at risk. His mother said when she reported...
by Bruce Nolan | Jun 10, 2011 | News
NEW ORLEANS (RNS) The embattled president of the nation’s last Catholic school to employ corporal punishment said he plans to remain on the job in spite of a weekend order that abruptly recalled him to Baltimore. The Rev. John Raphael unexpectedly appeared at a...
