Blessings
When I was younger I prayed that God would bless me. The image in my head when I thought about these blessings was good things happening to me, or material things coming my way. PICTURE: Sixteen Miles Out/Unsplash Blessings were certainly things like health, wealth, comfort, confidence, good relationships and success. Now there are lots of […]
Vaccine access: With Pope Francis’ blessing, Catholics pressed Biden White House to waive vaccine patents
CLAIRE GIANGRAVÉ and JACK JENKINS, of Religion News Service, report on how Catholics, in the US and elsewhere, have been involved in the push for loosening COVID-19 vaccine patents…
Southern Californian church Saddleback ordains three women, leading to another Mother’s Day dust-up over women pastors
RNS Saddleback Church, one of the largest churches in the Southern Baptist Convention and home to influential pastor Rick Warren, ordained three women as staff pastors this past weekend, a move that critics say violates the denomination’s statement of faith. “Yesterday was a historic night for Saddleback Church in many ways!” the Southern California megachurch’s […]
Essay: Do people become more religious in times of crisis?
US theologian DANIELLE TUMMINIO HANSEN looks, in an article first published on The Conversation, at what the evidence shows about religion and belief when facing traumatic events…
This Life: Reflection’s from a mother’s heart
As some nations marked Mother’s Day last Sunday, US columnist CAROL ROUND, in an article first published on ASSIST News Service, on why it’s important mothers share their memories…
US hosts Ethiopian Orthodox Church head after Tigray warning
Nairobi, Kenya AP The United States ambassador to Ethiopia on Monday hosted the Patriarch of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church after he warned of “genocide” in the Tigray region in his first public comments on the war. In a Facebook post, the US Embassy said Ambassador Geeta Pasi discussed the humanitarian situation in Tigray with the Patriarch, Abune […]
German Catholics to bless gay unions despite Vatican ban
Berlin, GermanyAP Germany’s powerful Catholic progressives are openly defying a recent Holy See pronouncement that priests cannot bless same-sex unions by offering such blessings at services in about 100 different churches all over the country this week. The blessings at open worship services are the latest pushback from German Catholics against a document released in […]