The elected Christian is in the world only to increase this glory of God by fulfilling His commandments to the best of his ability. … Brotherly love, … is expressed in the first place in the fulfillment of the daily tasks given. … This makes labor in the service of impersonal social usefulness appear to promote the glory of God and hence to be willed by him.
Report on prayer amendment: fair or biased?
The lead story on the front page of today’s St. Louis Post-Dispatch â right there beside coverage of the Olympics â is an in-depth examination of a proposed Missouri state amendment related to prayer.
Apocalyptic visions, care of secular prophets
Remember that odd news-you-can-use meditation feature that ran the other day in The Los Angeles Times, the one that didn’t seem to realize there was a religion angle to the story?
Catholic marriage chief Cordileone sent to San Francisco
On Friday, the Vatican announced that Oakland Bishop Salvatore Cordileone would become the archbishop of San Francisco, succeeding Archbishop George Niederauer who hit retirement age last year.
Haunted demographics: Cells and church towers
London 2012 fetes British ink, film and (gasp!) hymnody
Folks, I have committed a serious sin that I hate to spot among other reporters. When searching for obvious religion, I overlooked the subtle spots.
And now, equal time for Muslim chickens ...
Here’s the gist of a recent Los Angeles Times story: An Islamic butcher shop finds surprising success in a predominantly Latino neighborhood of east L.A.
Pod people: Treat religion news like crime news?
Did anyone else have a good time watching the Olympic’s opening ceremonies tonight? I learned a lot about how the British, or at least how the ones running the Olympics, see their own history.
Catholics, Commies, and Gays -- Oh my!
The story of Archbishop Róbert Bezák is ready made for the Da Vinci Code treatment. Yet the press has bungled a Catholic story — the Associated Press piece that ran in most U.S. newspapers devoted more space to a rehash of the clergy pedophile scandal than the church conflict in the Slovak Republic.
