The religious order tries to shed its image as a club for the rich while tapping the wealthy for its charities.
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Sunday White Mass, 10 a.m., annual Mass celebrated for health care professionals and caregivers, held in conjunction with the World Day of Prayer for the Sick on Monday, at the Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul, 27 Bartlett St., Lewiston. “The Serpent and the Dragon: Moving Beyond Our Growing Edges,” 10:30 a.m., interfaith service at […]
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Evangelicals soften the anti-gay rhetoric
NASHVILLE, Tenn. – The Rev. Robert Jeffress has changed the way he talks about homosexuality from the pulpit. The pastor of the 11,000-member First Baptist Church in Dallas hasn’t stopped preaching that homosexual sex is sinful, but he no longer singles it out for special condemnation. Now, Jeffress says he usually talks about homosexuality within […]
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Reflections: Message from Myrlie Evers-Williams: Hate is the enemy
Myrlie Evers-Williams, in the invocation for the inauguration of President Obama, prayed, “There is something within me. There is something within America …” I know some of what is within Myrlie Evers-Williams. It is tragedy and it is courage, it is love and it is faith in the God of Love who in ways visible […]
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Saturday My Sister’s Keeper, a mentoring ministry for women who are transitioning from incarceration into the community, will hold a training session from 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. for interested mentors and volunteers at Cape Elizabeth United Methodist Church, Route 77, Cape Elizabeth. To register or for details, contact Kelly Dell’Aquila, director, at 712-5962 or […]
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Pope: Social networking sites key to spreading faith
VATICAN CITY – Pope Benedict XVI put church leaders on notice Thursday, saying social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter aren’t a virtual world they can ignore, but rather a real world they must engage if they want to spread the faith to the next generation. The 85-year-old Benedict, who tweets in nine languages, […]
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Reflections: From the mouths of babes we may find more courage as adults
I sit to write, find my breath and tune into my feelings, focusing at the center of my chest, in/out, up/down, dropping my attention from thinking to hearing. Listening inwardly for what to write. My grandson Taylor appears to me. I hear Taylor, TT we call him. Yesterday his mother, my daughter Alisa, found TT […]
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Colorado bishops weigh church hospital’s case
DENVER – Colorado’s Catholic bishops will review a church hospital’s legal argument that it should not be liable for the death of unborn twins because a fetus is not a person under state law. The arguments were made in papers Englewood-based Catholic Health Initiatives filed in 2010 to persuade a judge to dismiss a wrongful […]
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In Davos, taking a philosophical break
The annual economic forum takes time to discuss religious trends and their implications.
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Saturday Same-sex marriage spiritual celebration, 6 p.m., brief vespers service followed by a “wedding” reception. St. Ansgar Lutheran Church, 515 Woodford St., Portland. RSVP to [email protected]. Sunday “Belonging,” 9 and 11 a.m. services, with guest preacher the Rev. Fulgence Ndagijimana, minister of the First Unitarian Church in Burundi, Africa. Allen Avenue Unitarian Universalist Church, 524 […]