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...Titanic with Jesus as your only lifeboat. With adolescence comes new cognitive tools to explore those ancient ideas. "Along with the ability to understand abstract concepts, their sense of empathy is expanding," says Dr. Mary Lynn Dell, who is an adolescent psychiatrist at Emory University and an Episcopal priest. "In religious terms, this gives them the ability to discern between institutional religion and an internal relationship with God." For the first time, adolescents are able to take God home with them from church...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Feels Like Teen Spirit | 8/1/2005 | See Source »

...announced last week that it was in the black for the first time in four years, netting a 2004 surplus of nearly €3.1 million. Meanwhile, assets managed by the Church of England's Church Commissioners have fattened to $7.6 billion as its investment portfolio - which helps pay for priest pensions - continues to outperform the market. In March this year, London church officials hailed a yield of 13.6% for 2004, putting the fund in the top 3% of more than 700 similar British pension funds measured by the WM All Funds Universe benchmark. While Louis Henderson, spokesman for the Church...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bizwatch | 7/17/2005 | See Source »

...some, DNA tests help confirm an ancestry that was suspected but never proved. William Sanchez, a Catholic priest in Albuquerque, N.M., always knew that he had a Spanish heritage but says he also felt a spiritual connection "to Israel and the chosen people." Although he was raised Catholic, his mother followed many Jewish traditions, such as covering mirrors in the house when someone died. But it wasn't until Sanchez took a test from Family Tree DNA in Houston that he learned he had inherited genetic markers for the Cohanim, Jewish high priests said to be descended from Moses' brother...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can DNA Reveal Your Roots? | 7/5/2005 | See Source »

...rose steadily to the tops of their fields. Reed, as leader of the Christian Coalition, built a national grass-roots following of religious activists. Abramoff tapped into massive casino profits by representing newly rich tribes. And Norquist, head of Americans for Tax Reform (ATR), established himself as the high priest of tax cuts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Gimme-Five Game | 6/27/2005 | See Source »

Jaime Cardinal Sin, who died last week at the age of 76 after a long fight with cancer, once wore his power lightly. He had a sly sense of humor-invaluable for a priest named Sin-and some of his sharper critiques of the dictatorship of President Ferdinand Marcos came in the form of jokes and quips. That gentle method of opposition gave way to something bolder on Feb. 22, 1986, when Sin told Manila's residents to go out into the streets to protect military men who had split from Marcos; this turned into the potent force now known...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cardinal Rule | 6/25/2005 | See Source »

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