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...Greco brought with him the practice of making portraits of ordinary people, not just royals, nobles and high churchmen. He was one of the first European painters to probe psychology--although he wouldn't have called it that--in his portraits, and when he turned to devotional subjects, he treated those as portraits too. His Saint James is not the picture of a remote celestial being but of a man, even a contemporary...
Awkward as it may be for an outsider to intrude in the doings of a country or a church that is not his own, I nonetheless believe that the Most Rev. Archbishop Peter Akinola has some explaining to do. The Anglican Primate of Nigeria, one of the most powerful churchmen in Africa, needs to clarify his stance on a Nigerian anti-homosexuality bill he initially supported, which assigns a five-year prison term not only for practicing gays, but also for those who support them. Akinola either needs to publicly renounce, in strong terms, his early support of the bill...
...week involved Bishop Desmond Tutu, the 1984 Nobel Peace Prize laureate. Tutu and a fellow Anglican bishop had gone to Duduza, a black township 30 miles east of Johannesburg, to officiate at the funerals of four young men who had accidentally blown themselves up with explosives. As the two churchmen left the cemetery after the burial, they were confronted by a mob attempting to kill a black man whom they suspected of being a police spy. The crowd had seized him, set his car afire and was trying to hurl him into the flames. Bishop Tutu, dressed in purple vestments...
...swiftly protecting the public: not everyone is comfortable with the lack of due process that zero tolerance provides for the accused. Of course, there was little due process when investigations were left in bishops' hands. And last year the Vatican issued new rules so discreetly that most churchmen don't know that anything was changed. Rome quietly published, in Latin, a papal directive known as a motu proprio (meaning under his personal authority), tucked inside a long annual record of the Holy See. It directed that allegations of sex abuse be brought secretly for judgment by Rome's Congregation...
...baptized members, attracts only about 3% to regular weekly or monthly services. Empty churches, dwindling attendance: it looks like a church in serious decline. So the media interest over the early retirement of Archbishop of Canterbury George Carey, 66, and the intense speculation about his successor surprised many churchmen. Says former Archdeacon of York George Austin: "I had just written an article saying there was now no interest left in the church at all. I had to change...