A lawyer on the mend is a force for the helpless | James P. Broderick, who is blind and suffers from a form of short-term memory loss, offers legal advice to a South Bronx Roman Catholic group that serves a large and needy immigrant population. (The New York Times)
The spirit of the evangelicals moves masses of the poorest | It's group exorcism night at the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God, one of the fastest growing Pentecostal movements in Latin America - a region so enthralled with Protestant evangelist sects that some religion experts predict they will eclipse Roman Catholicism within a quarter-century (Newsday)
Episcopal church:
No accord by Episcopal clerics after long session on gay issues | The Episcopal bishop of Connecticut and six dissident, conservative priests met for nearly four hours last night but made little progress toward reconciliation, officials of the diocese said (The New York Times)
No resolution in sight in dispute | Conservative Episcopal priests, bishop apparently at impasse (The Hartford Courant, Conn.)
Episcopal priests face possible discipline in dispute with bishop | Six Episcopal priests face possible discipline after failing to reach an agreement with a bishop they oppose for his support of gay clergy (Associated Press)
Religion & homosexuality:
GOP gays and the 'Finkelstein phenomenon' | We are witnessing a slow but inexorable societal acknowledgment that gay people are real people living real lives, not an abstraction or a subculture (Robert Scheer, Los Angeles Times)
Gay and God t-shirts clash at area high school | gay tolerance group, Christian group wear opposing t-shirts (NBC5, Chicago)
Couple admits to terrorizing church vicar:
Doctor and lover terrorized vicar in campaign of hate | The attacked his car, sent him obscene letters and even told his parishioners that he was being investigated over allegations of child abuse (The Guardian, London)
Village undertaker and GP bombarded vicar with threats and sex smears (The Telegraph, London)
GP and lover subjected vicar to terror campaign | A doctor and an undertaker yesterday admitted an eight-month terror campaign that left a vicar fearing for his life (The Times, London)
Crime:
Vicar caught in vice swoop | Married Reverend Austen Komon, 34, a preacher at an evangelical church, admitted cruising with a male friend around the notorious red light district of Kings Cross on November 9 (South London Press)
Former 'duo of deceit' now lecture students about ethics | Al Porro said his spiritual beliefs made it agonizing to try to reconcile his reckless nightlife, his crimes and his faith (USA Today)
People:
Max Lucado named top preacher in U.S. | By Reader's Digest (San Antonio Express-News, Tex.)
Episcopal priest who turned Druid changes his mind | In a rapid change of heart, a local Episcopal priest is abandoning Druid spirituality - a decision made one day after it was reported that he had renounced his Episcopal ordination and become the founding priest of a Druid group (The Philadelphia Inquirer)
More articles of interest:
The war against abstinence | Clearly, it's in society's interest to discourage teen sex (Robert Rector, The Washington Times)
Religion by the roadside | A scholar hits the road to study homespun sites of the sacred and discovers a moving journey (The Orlando Sentinel)
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