Religion

> Even for Texas, the scene was remarkable: The governor, flanked by an out-of-state televangelist and religious right leaders, signing legislation in a church school gymnasium amid shouts of "amen" from backers who just as well could have been attending a revival. > It wasn't just

Either this guy is trying to show the nature of being homeless but everywhere at home, or the Anglican monasteries have become as watered down as its doctrine and this guy finds his kicks just like ordinary joes. Link [http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_1427587.html]. Excerpt: >

Ya gotta love Denver Archbishop Charles Chaput. He has attacked America's moral and theological loosening, and now he tells Europe what he thinks of their increasingly-godless ways. Link [http://rockymountainnews.com/drmn/local/article/0%2C1299%2CDRMN_15_3843854%2C00.html] . Excerpts: > Denver Archbishop Charles Chaput waved

If Flannery O'Connor were still alive, she'd have a great time with this one. Her Hazel Motes dreamed of establishing the Church Without Christ. These folks have gone one better: the Church Without Church. Link [http://www.southbendtribune.com/stories/2005/06/09/faith.20050609-sbt-MICH-D3-Former__churches_

All right. She says she's willing to get naked for the camera and pop mags refer to her as Tom Cruise's "lover." Now she's apparently interested in Scientology. We're beginning to think the "devout Catholic" Katie Holmes ain&

> Abba Isaiah said, "Nothing is so useful to the beginner as insults. The beginner who bears insults is like a tree that is watered every day." Sayings of the Desert Fathers

> An Israeli researcher has challenged the popular belief that Jesus died of blood loss on the cross, saying he probably succumbed to a sometimes fatal disorder now associated with long-haul air travel. > Professor Benjamin Brenner wrote in The Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis that Jesus's death,

> Nine women, including one Canadian and one American, plan to defy the Vatican and become the first female Roman Catholic priests and deacons ordained in North America during a ceremony on a boat on the St Lawrence River next month. . . > The location for the ceremony was chosen because

Has anyone else noticed the glut of stories from India involving spiritual con games? > Police in India have arrested a couple who claimed they could cure ill people through 'ghost therapy'. > Kohinoor Bibi and her husband Majid Mandal claimed two ghosts helped them treat their patients,