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• PP scraps PSOE’s civic responsibility course in schools

  
  The Olive Press — Authority: 476
  The obligatory course, which encouraged discussion on homosexuality and racism, was introduced by the PSOE in 2006
  20 hours ago

• Diocese of London clergy ask for civil partnerships in church

  
  Changing Attitude - Colin Coward & Christina Beardsley — Authority: 112
  A letter signed by 120 clergy in the Diocese of London asking the Church of England to allow priests to follow their individual conscience on whether to hold civil partnership ceremonies in their churches has been published by The Times. The letter says: “We, the undersigned, believe that on the issue of holding ...
  22 hours ago

• U.S. Catholic Bishops Take Stand Against Birth Control Rules

  
  Northloop Neighborhoods - Community News & Directory — Authority: 138
  Theres a battle brewing between U.S. Catholic bishops and the Obama administration over its recent directive requiring religious institutions to offer coverage for contraception in their health care plans. Some have announced they will not comply with the mandate. Others are calling on parishioners to "defend the ...
  23 hours ago

• Catholic bishops convene biennial meet

  
  Union of Catholic Asian News — Authority: 434
  Cardinal Oswald Gracias today called the Church “the conscience of the nation” during his presidential speech at the opening of the 30th general body meeting of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India (CBCI) in Bangalore. During his speech, he called for the Church as a whole to meditate on what it has done ...
  1 day ago

• Bishops to discuss ‘better India’

  
  Union of Catholic Asian News — Authority: 434
  A record number of bishops has assembled in Bangalore to seek ways to define the “Church’s role for a better India.” This year’s Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India (CBCI) meeting, scheduled for February 1-8, will address “challenges of a materialistic world, nation building and probity in public life, ...
  2 days ago

• The Web We Weave

  
  Defend Us In Battle — Authority: 459
  A s we are now faced with an actual battle , a legitimately named culture war , in dealing with the HHS Mandate regarding healthcare and freedom of religion, the Catholic blogosphere takes center stage. As ordinary sources of news and media will likely remain "neutral" in all of this, and by that I mean heavily ...
  4 days ago

• Women bishops are coming to the Church of England, says leading opponent

  
  Anglican Mainstream — Authority: 507
  By Edward Malnick, Telegraph The Church of England is on an unstoppable path to women bishops, their most senior traditionalist opponent has conceded. The Rt Rev John Hind, the Bishop of Chichester, has led opposition to ordaining women as bishops but said that it was now certain to happen.   He spoke ahead of ...
  5 days ago

• The Archbishop of York reveals his failure to understand LGB&T Anglicans

  
  Changing Attitude - Colin Coward & Christina Beardsley — Authority: 112
  In an interview with The Daily Telegraph, the Archbishop of York says: “Marriage is a relationship between a man and a woman.” “I don’t think it is the role of the state to define what marriage is. It is set in tradition and history and you can’t just [change it] overnight, no matter how powerful [...]
  5 days ago

• Bishop of Leicester: ‘Lord Carey was wrong to defend government’s welfare reforms’

  
  TitusOneNine — Authority: 482
  ...I disagree profoundly with the Government’s and Lord Carey’s view that our action in the Lords was about prolonging a culture of welfare dependency, or the implication that increased material poverty for some is a price worth paying to alleviate what some have described as the poverty of aspiration.... The ...
  6 days ago

• George Carey—My fellow bishops are wrong. Fuelling the culture of welfare dependency is immoral.

  
  TitusOneNine — Authority: 482
  ...these five bishops — led by the Bishop of Ripon and Leeds — cannot lay claim to the moral high-ground. The sheer scale of our public debt, which hit £1trillion yesterday, is the greatest moral scandal facing Britain today. If we can’t get the deficit under control and begin paying back this debt, we will ...
  6 days ago

• (Church Times) C of E Bishops win Lords victory on benefit for ‘voteless’ children

  
  TitusOneNine — Authority: 482
  Bishops led the House of Lords on Monday evening to vote in favour of an amendment excluding child benefit from the proposed cap on benefits in the Welfare Reform Bill. Children’s charities welcomed the amendment, proposed by the Bishop of Ripon & Leeds, the Rt Revd John Packer, as a safeguard for those — ...
  6 days ago

• We will all be changed

  
  Anglican Mainstream — Authority: 507
  From Ancient Briton A further drop in Church of England attendance has been reported . Average Sunday attendance fell from 944,400 in 2009 to 923,700 the following year, continuing the long-term downward trend . Hardly the result one might have expected after the church decided to make itself more relevant to ...
  1 week ago

• Divine dispatches: a religion roundup | David Shariatmadari

  
  top99news - breaking news from the world top newspapers — Authority: 165
  http://www.guardian.co.uk Divine dispatches: a religion roundup | David Shariatmadari The pope warns of radical secularism; storm grows over closure of Ireland’s Vatican embassy; Gaudi inspires Catholic conversion• Rome has had a busy few days. Before advising the faithful on the uses and abuses of ...
  1 week ago

• Lord Carey rescues the CofE from disrepute

  
  News Politics — Authority: 129
  Just when you were thinking that the higher strata of the established church was completely out of touch with the beliefs of the country (and common sense), the former of Archbishop of Canterbury comes along and restores a dimension of reality. Lord Carey – who was often regarded with outright contempt by the ...
  1 week ago

• Marylands Governor Introduces Same-Sex Marriage bill

  
  Michael-In-Norfolk - - Coming Out In Mid Life — Authority: 430
  With Washington State poised to enact same sex marriage, Marylands Governor Martin OMalley (pictured at left) introduced legislation Monday night to legalize same-sex marriage in Maryland. The bill reportedly contains more broad protections for groups that would not want to perform or honor same-sex marriages in an ...
  1 week ago

• How did this get on the science page? | Jon Butterworth | Life & Physics

  
  top99news - breaking news from the world top newspapers — Authority: 165
  http://www.guardian.co.uk How did this get on the science page? | Jon Butterworth | Life & Physics “A new study suggests…” that if going to church makes you a Tory, those Bishops are even more confused than I thoughtI have been wondering why this “Does voting in a church turn you into a ...
  1 week ago

• Welfare reform: Labour, bishops and Lib Dem peers derail benefits cap plan

  
  top99news - breaking news from the world top newspapers — Authority: 165
  http://www.dailymail.co.uk Welfare reform: Labour, bishops and Lib Dem peers derail benefits cap plan Ministers reacted with fury as Church leaders suggested that capping benefits at a maximum of £26,000 a year was somehow un-Christian. published date:Tue, 24 Jan 2012 08:35:28 GMT
  1 week ago

• English Bishops - questions to answer

  
  This makes me mad, you too? — Authority: 110
  An amendment to the Welfare Reform Bill, that is currently winding its way through Parliament, was passed in the House of Lords, last night.  This amendment, was tabled by the Bishop of Ripon and Leeds and was supported by other bishops, Labour peers, so-called cross bench peers (said to be independents) and Liberal ...
  1 week ago

• Battle Over Controversial Benefits Cap Plans

  
  Future News — Authority: 125
  Ministers are braced for a clash with the House of Lords over the Government’s attempts to cap benefits at £500 a week. Church of England bishops and rebel Liberal Democrats are threatening to derail Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith’s flagship benefit reforms when peers vote on the measure later. The ...
  1 week ago

• David Clohessys Kansas City Deposition Unsealed: Notes on SNAP Press Statement

  
  Bilgrimage — Authority: 468
  The SNAP website has a good media statement from last week addressing the unprecedented demand in two Missouri cities , Kansas City and St. Louis, that SNAP open its files to the scrutiny of lawyers hired by Catholic officials to defend priests accused of sex crimes with minors.  As the press release notes, a ...
  1 week ago

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