The Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams is in Rome to meet Pope Benedict aiming to ease the growing tensions between them. It follows the Vatican's controversial approach to Church of England clergy paving the way for those...
The real challenge to the biblical literalism held dear by creationists is in the Bible itself An academic conference in Louisville, Kentucky, provided me with an opportunity to visit the Creation Museum in nearby Petersburg...
Baldy US comedian David Cross on aliens, chipmunks, upsetting the President and molesting the Pope Hello, David. You grew up in Roswell, Georgia, which is presumably the same place as Roswell, New Mexico (1). Did you ever...
Four new books show the startling extent to which images of the next world still both reflect and shape life in this one Heaven and the AfterlifePocket Guide to the AfterlifeWho Goes There?The Garden and the Fire
The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, has travelled to Rome to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the birth of the late Dutch Cardinal Johannes Willebrands, a campaigner for the unification of Christianity. But when...
When David Cameron appeared on Songs of Praise last weekend, he sought to emphasise that his faith is that of the reassuringly fusty Church of England and a far cry from the scarier type often favoured by conservatives in...
By GINA KINSLOW Glasgow Daily Times TOMPKINSVILLE — A celebration to commemorate the bicentennial anniversary of Old Mulkey is set for Saturday at Old Mulkey Meeting House State Historic Site. “During the bicentennial...
By Nick Squires in Rome Saturday November 21 2009 A Vatican researcher claimed last night to have discovered Christ's "burial certificate" on the Turin Shroud. Barbara Frale, a historian at the Vatican archive, said she had...
MOSCOW, Nov. 20 (UPI) -- A Russian Orthodox priest who worked with Muslim immigrants received more than a dozen death threats before he was shot to death, a newspaper says. Daniil Sysoyev, 34, was shot in the head by a masked...
BALTIMORE -- At a time of fractious debate within the Catholic Church in the United States, the head of the national bishops group said this week that Catholic universities, media outlets and other affiliated organizations that...