Presbyterian Church parishes leaving, but ‘with grace' and property
McClatchy Newspapers
1/14/2009, by Sue Nowicki
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT) - The Episcopal Church isn't the only denomination facing a split between liberal and conservative interpretations of Scripture. The Presbyterian Church USA also has seen individual churches leave the national church. There are similarities between the denominations: Both ...
Churches struggle as parishioners do during recession
McClatchy Newspapers
1/13/2009, by Jennifer Garza
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT) - Sanctuary from the economic downturn is tough to find, even in houses of worship. The financial uncertainty has hit religious organizations hard as members struggling with tight budgets have pared back their donations. Churches, struggling to fill the collection plate, ...
Math proves the right formula for homeless man
McClatchy Newspapers
1/7/2009, by Patrick McGee
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT) - Jo Ann Reyes was hesitant when the homeless man volunteered to teach a GED class at her church. His clothes were in terrible condition. He had long hair, his front teeth were rotted out, and he smelled of the streets. But Reyes agreed to let Jeremy Burnett teach. He ...
Confession varies among world's major religions
McClatchy Newspapers
1/7/2009, by Sue Nowicki
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT) - "Confession is good for the soul," says a Scottish proverb from the mid-1600s. Most religions would agree. Verses from the Torah, the Bible and the Quran speak of the importance of confessing our sins and receiving forgiveness from a God who is merciful. But there are ...
Sculptor follows God to focus on family, then craft
McClatchy Newspapers
12/22/2008, by Terry Lee Goodrich
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT) - The life-size sculpture of Jesus, emerging from the water after his baptism, took center stage in the kitchen of Cindy Burden's rustic house in the woods. For weeks, she often stayed up until 3 a.m. to work on the figure.
But in 1995, Jesus nixed the project, said ...
Diversity arises in more churches
McClatchy Newspapers
12/22/2008, by Yonat Shimron
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT) - The Sunday service at Durham, N.C.'s King's Park International Church features a blast of hymns, gospel and praise music performed live and loud by band members that are as multi-racial as the people in attendance. The church, one of the region's most diverse, is a ...
Mobile Gabriel - Mass Readings on the Go
Catholic Media Review
12/16/2008, by Denise M. Lapachet
WASHINGTON (Catholic Media Review) - Mobile Gabriel (www.mobilegabriel.com) is a website that has the readings for Mass, both Daily and Sunday.
It's available for viewing over your computer or you can download it to your PDA or smartphone (iPhone, Treo, Blackberry, Centro, etc.) through an ...
Hebrew 101
McClatchy Newspapers
12/10/2008, by Mark Barna
The Gazette (MCT) - Learning a new language is rarely easy for adults, but this class is going to be a doozy. Class participants aren't there to just pick up a few key phrases to ask where the bathroom is or order food in a foreign country. They have to start at the beginning, with a new alphabet ...
Mexicans host a cherished annual visitor
McClatchy Newspapers
12/9/2008, by Elizabeth Llorente
The Record (Hackensack N.J.) (MCT) - She arrived at the modest corner home on Lexington Avenue to a reception fit for a queen. Here, at last, was the Virgin of Guadalupe: a framed print, bedecked in multicolored silk flowers, and more than a dozen Mexican immigrants gathered inside clasped hands in ...
Priest unearths forgotten chapter of Holocaust
Catholic San Francisco
12/2/2008, by Michael Vick
San Francisco - Auschwitz. Treblinka. Birkenau. Names etched forever into the consciousness of a world reeling from the horror of the Holocaust. Around six million died as a direct result of the Nazi' s planned extermination of the Jewish people. But before the death camps, before the gas chambers, ...
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