Its gotten minimal press, and what occurred remains quite fuzzy. Three months after it took place, Roman Catholic Cardinal Roger Mahony, who leads the huge Archdiocese of Los Angeles, told folks he was mugged last July on a sidewalk near the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels, the mother church for the archdiocese.
He said he had gone out to mail a letter when he was assaulted.He opted, at the time, not to report the incident to police. He made it sort of public in October when he spoke to …

Englands Royal College of Psychiatrists recently presented a report on homosexuality for the Church of Englands Listening Exercise on Human Sexuality. The report prompted prominent American theologian and author, Bishop John Shelby Spong, to circulate the summary of their findings widely to the media and others.
The report reaffirms previous professional findings that homosexuality is not a psychological illness or condition and those reparative therapies to try to turn gays to straight have no proof of working. There is now a body of research evidence that indicates that being gay, lesbian …

Messianic Jews are a source of endless curiosity and controversy. Numerous times over the years, Jews have passionately told me how Messianic groups like Jews for Jesus dont deserve a drop of ink on newsprint. That youre a Jew or a Christian, but not something in between.
They bristle that followers of Christ can be quasi-Jewish. Messianic Jewish congregations typically carry Hebrew names, and some media have wrongly lumped them in lists with traditional Jewish congregations. Bad mistake. Traditional Jews dont accept that Jesus Christ was the Messiah prophesied in scripture …

Future saints of every faith are diligent at work these days in congregations or regional offices and programs. The marks they have already left and will leave will one day be celebrated, and they will become icons deserving places in pantheons for the great forbears of faith.
It is only a matter of time before their impact is truly known and then properly recognized. Certainly, we can spot many of them today because of their force, leadership and works.
That was not readily apparent in 1882 when an Easterner came to Tombstone …

Omaha, Neb., seems an unlikely place for the madness of a shopping mall massacre. That Heartland metropolis is in an especially conservative state that rarely gets in the news for such a human tragedy on a grand scale.
But as details unfold about the gunman, Robert A. Hawkins, 19, who fatally wounded eight and then took his own life Tuesday at an Omaha shopping mall, it appears here was a deeply troubled young man who sorely needed mental treatment. It appears many knew about his anger and personal conflict.
This is kind …