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Radical
Faith
Exploring fundamentals of faith in a changed world
Priests
and bishops embody functions which go back to the dawn of time.
Their offices derive from the earliest roots of the Christian Church.
But do priests and bishops actually follow the teachings of Jesus in the
way they relate to other Christians? Or have their roles developed over
the millennia into something which fundamentally goes against what we
know of Jesus in the gospels?
Capital
punishment, writes Paul Walker, is one of those human
solutions which is Simple,
Neat and Wrong. In the past, religion tried to offer a
complete package of solutions for everything under the sun.
Today it's not so easy to do that and those who try it
inevitably fall into the trap of fundamentalism. Perhaps we all
need to be aware of knee-jerk responses to life -
if only because religion remains an essential dimension to our
lives and we shouldn't throw out the baby with the bathwater.
There
is much talk in the Anglican Church worldwide of the inevitability of a
break over sexual morality between so-called traditional and liberal
wings. Is the anticipated Schism
as terrible a prospect as many in authority maintain? Does it contradict
a basic stand made by Jesus that he could eat at table with all sinners
and that God's love is open to everyone? In response, some think that
it's natural for people to hold opposing views, and that schism is often
a healing rather than a harming process.
21/08/2008
Church
Watch
Robert
Finn, Catholic Bishop of St Joseph's Diocese, USA,
has announced a tentative $10m settlement of sex abuse
claims against his priests [More]
Archbishop Raymond
Burke has ruled that Catholic priests in the USA must
refuse Communion to politicians who support pro-abortion
legislation [More]
Roy Bourgeois,
a Catholic priest in the USA is being investigated by the
Vatican for attending a service at which a woman was
ordained priest [More]
A Catholic Carmelite priest has been
murdered in Andhra Pradesh, India, after being tortured
and having his eyes gouged out [More]
A Baptist congregation in Atlanta, USA, has taken on physical
fitness and weight loss as religious obligations[More]
Membership of the Lutheran Church in the USA has
fallen for the 16th year running [More]
The
Catholic Church in Scotland has made a deal with the health
authorities to allow anti-cervical- cancer jabs for
schoolgirls provided they are not given advice about
using condoms[More]
