More religious leaders keeping faithful secure in wake of church shootings
McClatchy Newspapers
4/6/2009, by Helen T. Gray
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT) - When it comes to protecting their flock, religious leaders increasingly have been forced to think beyond the spiritual. Gun violence in recent years has shocked them into the reality of physical danger at places usually associated with peace and holiness. The latest was ...
Married priests inspire flock: Family used to questions, but mainly they find they're accepted
McClatchy Newspapers
4/3/2009, by Patricia Montemurri
Detroit Free Press (MCT) - There are few women who can say they are married to a Roman Catholic priest. And few people who can say their dad is the man whom Catholic churchgoers address formally as "Father Steve." But Cindy Anderson and her three sons can, and they were among the rush of ...
Catholic church seeing rise in indulgences
McClatchy Newspapers
4/1/2009, by Jeff Strickler
Star Tribune (Minneapolis) (MCT) - One of the newest things in the Roman Catholic Church is one of the oldest. Middle Ages old, to be exact. Indulgences are back.
Unused for decades, the rites that the faithful believe wipe away punishment for sins are now being offered by 15 churches in the ...
Mastering the symbolic language of iconography
Catholic Online
3/30/2009, by Dan Harrington
WHITEFIELD (Catholic Online) – When members of St. Mary's Faith Formation invited Kristina Sadley to Maine, she jumped at the chance. “I grew up in the Roman Catholic faith and have been an art person since childhood,” she said.
Sadley is a Roman Catholic iconographer who specializes in the ...
Sacrament for the sick is in demand
McClatchy Newspapers
3/25/2009, by Manya A. Brachear
Chicago Tribune (MCT) - March 16, 2009 Mary Ellen Segraves could sense the fear in her ailing mother Ceil's eyes the day after her knee surgery. But when the Rev. Yaroslav Mendyuk approached her hospital bed to offer the sacrament of the sick, Segraves saw her mother light up. Following the ...
Canadians winter in Philadelphia on mission to feed poorest and hungriest
McClatchy Newspapers
3/19/2009, by David O'Reilly
The Philadelphia Inquirer (MCT) - Winters are harsh on Prince Edward Island, and so, like many retired Canadians, Fred and Flo MacLean head south by late November. But it's not to a sunny realm of golf and sailboats and margaritas that these snowbirds migrate.
Their 700-mile journey ends at a ...
Ordination not a ‘lark' for all ULC ministers
McClatchy Newspapers
3/18/2009, by Sue Nowicki
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT) - Celebrities such as Mary Hart, Tony Danza, Courtney Love and all four of The Beatles were ordained by Universal Life Church. Andre Hensley, church pastor and president, said most people apply for the ordinations "for a lark." He estimated that about 25 percent of ULC ...
Universal Life goes on
McClatchy Newspapers
3/18/2009, by Sue Nowicki
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT) - The church office is filled with 11 computers, five full-time employees and three part-time workers. They are quietly milking the machines, sending streams of information to one another. The stack of 9-by-12-inch manila envelopes grows throughout the day, nearly two ...
Interest-free loans steeped in tradition
McClatchy Newspapers
3/18/2009, by Kristin E. Holmes
The Philadelphia Inquirer (MCT) - In tough economic times, a centuries-old financial lifeline might be one of the best-kept secrets in the Jewish community. It is a secret whose roots go back to the Torah, where it is called an act of "loving kindness."
When rent is due or tuition is short, there ...
Nun on a mission to save Catholic schools
McClatchy Newspapers
3/13/2009, by Margaret Ramirez
Chicago Tribune (MCT) - Dressed in black from her nun's habit to her patent leather flats, Sister Mary Paul McCaughey walks a different path than most school superintendents, and even most Roman Catholic sisters. Instead of a firm handshake, McCaughey, superintendent of Chicago Catholic Schools, ...
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