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...state since Roe v. Wade but almost passed a measure to encourage the beating of flag burners by reducing the penalty to a $25 fine. Then they approved a law requiring record companies to place warning labels on songs that promote deviant sex, violence, drug abuse, suicide, devil worship or incest...
...pitiful 2.4% of the populace. Carey himself was unchurched as a youth. Interviewed in June by the Church Times, he recalled, "I did not encounter living Christianity until I was 17 when, through my brother of 13, I went along to the local Anglican church, found the worship appallingly boring but the fellowship and preaching riveting. There I found Christ, or, should I say, he found...
THREE DAYS AFTER I arrive, I am sitting in a tiny Baptist church right off Route 220, watching a daughter of my mother's high school classmate get married. "To serve your husband is to worship God," the minister declares. The congregation is silent, waiting for him to continue. Several women fan themselves with folded wedding programs...
...reminded that conditions in Rome around 300 A.D. were characterized by streetfighting, chaos, class wars, immorality, disregard for laws, selfishness, corruption, and a society whose hierarchy of leaders felt they were worthy of God-like worship. So then, am I to conclude that the overwhelming symptoms of decline in modern America are nothing more than a short lived empire slowly disintegrating from the inside and that this is a normal process in the evolution of empires? Or are America's problems simply the result of the complexity of the modern hi-tech information crazed world to which every nation...
...hierarchy has been appointing lay people, nuns and ordained deacons to take charge of parishes that lack priests. And last November Catholic bishops approved rites for Sunday worship that can be led by nonordained parish leaders in priestless congregations. To Schoenherr, a former priest, such measures are no more than stopgaps. As he sees it, the chief problem is celibacy. Eventually, he maintains, the church "will have to accept the ordination of married men in order to recruit and retain." But that is not likely to happen any time soon. Although a majority of American Catholics believe that priests ought...