Church of England Bishop Harries suggested that Prince Charles’s coronation service should be opened with a Koran reading. In the US, more than 50 churches, including the Washington National Cathedral, hold Koran readings. Is there any reading of the Christian liturgy in mosques? continued... J...
MATTERS AFFECTING RELIGIOUS WORK.—Incorporation of Churches.—No religious corporation can be established in this state except such as may be created under the general law for the purpose only of holding the title of such real estate as may be necessary for churches, schools, parsonages, and ...
Among the religious orders of men, the Order of Preachers found their first home in the United States near Springfield, Washington County, Kentucky (St. Rose of Lima, 1806), where they are still flourishing; the Trappists founded their famous Abbey of Gethsemani (q.v.), in Nelson County,...
b) Third Order Secular of St. Dominic was introduced into the United States by the early Dominican missionaries. There are at present congregations of DominicanTertiariesin almost all the churches in charge of Dominican Fathers, numbering from 100-600 members, and many hundred tertiaries throughou...
We must all (i.e., the media, churches, therapists, victim advocates, law enforcement, and the general public) ask ourselves if we have created an environment where victims are rewarded, listened to, comforted, and forgiven in direct proportion to the severity of their abuse. Are we ...