Religion

Fascinating story about the re-emergence of voodoo in Haiti [http://hotzone.yahoo.com/b/hotzone/20060509/hz_haiti_0506/blogs4211]. Excerpt: > Haitian voodoo became mixed with Catholicism, probably as a way for slaves to hide it from their masters – most of whom forbade the practice. Voodoo spirits were, and

> On May 6, representatives of the Episcopalian communities in the California diocese will meet to select a new bishop from among seven nominated candidates. Three of the nominees are openly homosexual, the Los Angeles Times [http://www.latimes.com/news/local/politics/cal/la-me-bishop4may04,1,786705.story?coll=la-news-politics-california&

I saw this at the Catholic Exchange roundtable message board [http://www.catholicexchange.com/messageboard/docs/viewtopic.asp?mbid=2&DocumentID=11645] . I've been thinking the same thing lately: > If any of you have any time now or this summer, it would be a great help

> Ecumenical Patriarch Vartholomaios backed efforts yesterday toward the construction of a mosque in Athens after Greece was recently criticized for not offering its Muslim community a suitable prayer site [http://www.orthodoxytoday.org/blog/?p=1594#more-1594].

Henri Gheon, writing about some of the folks in St. John Vianney's parish: > And last, there was that extraordinary being, Pere Chaffangeon, who remained for hours before the altar, without even moving his lips; it seems that he was speaking to God. > "And what do

From this morning's WaPo: [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/22/AR2006042201443.html] > After more than half a century of hostility, China and the Roman Catholic Church have inched within reach of normal relations, a historic shift aimed at improving the lives of 10

What Muslims hear at Friday prayers [http://service.spiegel.de/cache/international/spiegel/0,1518,411903,00.html]. Summarizing excerpt: > Are these words of hatred and discrimination really representative of the thousands upon thousands of Friday prayers that millions of Muslims around the world attend each week? And what

For our Eastern Orthodox brethren who are celebrating Easter today: > The whole man would not have been saved, unless he had taken upon himself the whole man. Origen > On Easter Day all of us who were imprisoned for religious convictions were united in the one joy of Christ.