A United Methodist Church report finds "modest good news" in the effort to increase the percentage of younger clergy. Details below:...
This didn't surprise me. It may surprise some who equate "Christian" with "conservative Christian" with "religious right" with "right." Robert P. Jones, a religion scholar who is president of Public Religion Research, writes that despite the public perception of ministers...
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"[T]he church is not a corporation; the paradigm is much more one of a family. You don't fire your father or grandfather." -- Cardinal Sean O'Malley, archbishop of Boston, on why, despite the pope's concern over the Catholic clergy sex...
Pope Benedict XVI has stunned Americans with the extent to which he has taken on the Catholic Church's clergy sex abuse scandal during his visit. He mentioned it on the plane over from Rome, he mentioned it when he addressed...
John L. Allen Jr. of National Catholic Reporter reports that Pope Benedict XVI "met quietly with five victims of clerical sexual abuse this afternoon at the Vatican's embassy to the United States." Previously, Allen writes, "no pope had ever met...
Many wondered whether, or to what extent, Pope Benedict XVI would address the Catholic clergy sex abuse scandal during his visit to the United States. He wasted no time. Aboard the airliner carrying him to Washington from Rome, he said...
The Associated Press reports that number of sex abuse claims against Catholic clergy dropped for the third consecutive year, but total payouts to victims nearly doubled to reach their highest level ever. The figures come from the U.S. Conference of...
In an op-ed for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, James M. Hunter, the lawyer for Bishop Eddie L. Long's New Birth Missionary Baptist Church, says an investigation by Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, into high-flying televangelists is a threat to all religious institutions....
At least that's the conclusion of one study of campaign contributions, according to Religion News Service. The study is by the Center for Responsive Politics, a nonpartisan research group that tracks political gifts. It found that clergy and staff members...
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