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TIME's story said,"The Roman Catholic Church's own record in the religious-mayhem department is hardly pristine," suggesting that the church has no business criticizing jihadist Islam. But right now Muslims are free to practice their faith in Christian-dominated nations, while non-Muslims in predominantly Islamic countries are severely, sometimes violently, restricted. The Pope is to be commended, not sneered at, for sticking his neck out for the sake of interfaith dialogue based on doctrine, reason and truth...
...Marcelle Shriver c/o St. Luke's Church 55 Warwick Rd. Stratford...
...Marcelle Shriver, an office manager and Army mom from Stratford, N.J., first advertised for Silly String donations in her church bulletin after her son called from Ramadi and mentioned how the Marine unit he was working with had passed on their tip to his combat engineers new to Iraq...
...Conservatism is actually in a classic American centrist bind. Since 1991 Reform Judaism has allowed gay rabbis and same-sex commitment ceremonies, a position probably slightly to the left of the Episcopal Church of the USA. Orthodoxy, on the other hand, regards homosexuality as deviant, and gay Orthodox Jews are as closeted as they are in, say, the Southern Baptist Convention. Until today Conservatism followed Orthodoxy?s legal lead, based in part on the biblical injunction that ?You shall not lie with a man as with a woman.? But many Conservative congregations have openly gay members, and pro-gay-rights...
...hard to tell. Conservatism?s numbers have been shrinking steadily for over a decade, as more liberal members have moved into the Reform camp and members of so-called ?conservadox? congregations have become simply Orthodox. One religious body that will no doubt be watching closely is the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A). Last June the Presbyterians? National Assembly came up with a position of near-Talmudic complexity: it maintained language on ordination requiring "fidelity within the covenant of marriage between a man and a woman or chastity in singleness." At the same time, it granted local congregations considerable latitude to go ahead...