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Attacking Iraq:

• A just war? | That Christians could be marshaled to oppose war is hardly news (David Davenport, Naples Daily News, Fla.)
  
  
• Protesters urge Dodd to oppose Iraq attack | More than 100 people participated in the prayer vigil, and 10 clergy members had a 45-minute meeting with members of Dodd's staff (The Hartford [Conn.] Courant)
  
  
• What makes a war 'just'? | Three Christian ethicists yesterday opposed a "pre-emptive war on Iraq," echoing a statement signed by 100 Christian thinkers who wanted to heat up the Washington debate on "just war." (The Washington Times)

Sex and marriage:

• Let's have more teen pregnancy | It's not a problem (Frederica Mathewes-Green, National Review Online)
  
  
• Christian meeting to study sex roles | Christians for Biblical Equality will present its view of marriage at a "mutual relationships" conference Friday through Sunday in Portland, Ore. (The Washington Times)

Catholicism:

• Catholic college takes on the church's crisis | At Boston College, a two-year initiative seeks to engage Catholics in sorting through the sex-abuse scandal. (The Christian Science Monitor)
  
  
• Vatican scientists accused of destroying Turin Shroud | Microscopic particles that could have proved whether or not the Shroud of Turin could be dated to around the time of the death of Christ have been destroyed by Vatican scientists. (Sunday Herald, Glasgow, Scotland)
  
  
• Mother Teresa moving closer to sainthood | May be beatified as early as next year, marking the final step before sainthood (Reuters)
  
  
• Catholic Theologians debate ills of church hierarchy | Inquiry an outgrowth of sexual abuse crisis. (The Washington Post)
  
  
• Outspoken leader for HK Catholics | Cardinal John Baptist Wu, 77, died after a long battle with diabetes and cancer. His deputy, Bishop Joseph Zen Ze-kiun, would take over, but has been banned from visiting China since 1998 (BBC)
  
  
• Columbia's president apologizes for remark taken as anti-Catholic | Alluded to the priest sex scandal and involved a double entendre about altar boys during football game against Fordham (Associated Press)
  
  
• The bishop's legacy: An empowered laity | Bishop Anthony Bosco has reached the mandatory retirement age of 75, but the Vatican has made no move to unseat him (The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
  
  
• Allentown priest stirs debate on ordination of gays | The Rev. Andrew Baker writes from the Vatican that all-male seminaries tempt gays, and the homosexual 'disorder' confuses the vow of celibacy. A bishop disagrees. (The Morning Call, Allentown, Penn.)

Missions and ministry:

• Freeing wild hearts | John Eldredge's ministry seems to have touched a nerve (The Washington Times)
  
  
• What would Jesus do? | Maybe, if he couldn't lure the modern masses to church, he would build a place to enjoy a basketball game, a yoga stretch, a play or a meal. That's Pasadena Community Church's $3.8-million idea (St. Petersburg [Fla.] Times)
  
  
• Missionaries carry on regardless of harassment | Despite the challenges they face from the government, the Russian Orthodox Church and even skinhead groups, Moscow's missionaries are quietly going about their business and say the Russian people are receptive to their work (The Moscow Times)
  
  
• Vicar takes a plunge for charity | Simon Foster has raised more than £1,000 for his parish by parachuting from 13,000 feet over a Nottinghamshire airfield (BBC)
  
  
• Adventure just part of pastor's job | Paul Winslow's lifestyle of service, generosity never lacks excitement (The Spokesman-Review, Spokane, Wash.)
  
  

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September (Web-only) 2002, Vol. 46