Word: interfaith
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...centralization of church authority. He published a decree effectively requiring national bishops' conferences to get Vatican approval before making statements on doctrine and made episcopal appointments subject to seeming litmus tests on topics like abortion and homosexuality. Even conservatives like Father Richard John Neuhaus, editor of the interfaith journal First Things, feel that the result, at least in the U.S., has been the advancement of "team players, CEOs and managers. They have genuine piety, but they are not the kind of people who are very spiritually flammable...
...studies that eventually led him to Saudi Arabia, where he enrolled at a school known for having turned out several militants. Still, his former teachers and classmates swear that he was far from an angry budding young terrorist at I.S.A. They remember him as someone who regularly attended an interfaith group and spoke with "the voice of reason" whenever schoolmates launched into anti-Israel tirades. Yahya Fouz, a former classmate, says, "I remember him telling me that, yes, there is only one God, but the beauty is the fact that people are able to take numerous paths to find...
Aslihan E. Manisali ’08, a member of the Harvard Islamic Society (HIS), said the Fast-A-Thon—a nationwide fast for charity that drew 500 Harvard participants—was a good example of the type of interfaith collaboration that HCIC could help foster...
Participants suggested that future Interfaith Council events might include joint community service events and discussion dinners addressing controversial issues that intersected with religion, including homosexuality and stem cell research. They also suggested an interfaith concert and a bus tour of Boston-area religious spaces...
...group’s faculty advisor Ali Asani, professor of Indo-Muslim languages, said the Interfaith Council is a positive step towards not simply recognizing difference, but embracing...