After a well deserved vacation in October, our weekly guide is now back with relevant info, news & events that underline Christianity in its habitus.
Religious Leaders Criticize BBC BBC (The British Broadcasting Corporation) is considered by many among the most trusted sources of information in the world. But how much is this true in the case of religion? That's a critical question raised by several religious leaders. (...) The Story of a Priest, a Nun, and Their Son This is a book by Peter Manseau, the otherwise ordinary and reasonable son. He describes, from the inside out, a world of ecclesiastical obedience and principled rebellion, public virtue and private vice and how his father's status as a "married priest" put the family in an odd no-man's land peopled by married priests and former nuns, hoping for official ecclesiastical acceptance. (...) Anglicans Address Disunity 103 top Anglicans, amid tight security and a media blackout, gathered last week on Egypt's Red Sea coast for the third Global South to South Encounter to address disunity in the 75-million-member Anglican Communion, the world's largest and one of the most influential Protestant bodies. (...) A Church That Can and Cannot Change In the wake of essential books on the history of moral teaching (from contraception to bribes and religious liberty) John T. Noonan, Jr. aims an integral approach the problem of doctrinal development in the Roman Catholic Church in his book "A Church That Can and Cannot Change: The Development of Catholic Moral Teaching". Read the review of cardinal Avery Dulles, SJ. (...) An Orthodox Perspective on Human Rights... ...or one might say An Orthodox Perspective on Human Rights with a Russian Twist. This is a brief paper delivered by Metropolitan Kirill of Smolensk and Kaliningrad at the conference on Religion in the Modern System of International Relations, September 30, 2005, St. Petersburg. (...)
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