Exactly how many churches are there in the world? To be clear, this was a reference to the number of church buildings, not the number of denominations or congregations. And honestly I had no real idea. There are currently between 2.3 and 2.5 billion Christians in the world, about a third...
The agency relationship has been observed in a variety of settings. Churches, like other organizations, are plagued with the typical agency problems of moral hazard, observability, goal displacement, and risk aversion. How do churches cope with these issues in dealing with their most critical ...
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Cuneo estimates the worldwide number at somewhere between 150 and 300, while other reports claim there are 300 to 400 official exorcists in Italy alone. There are also priests who are not official exorcists but claim to have permission from their Catholic bishops to perform exorcisms at their ...
David Bereit, founder of 40 Days for Life and recent Catholic convert, advises parents to pray before beginning to teach their children about abortion. Ask God for guidance on what you will say and how your family will become involved in the pro-life movement. Discerning how that call to ac...
A.There still existed many Roman Catholic churches in the Church of England. B.Queen Mary sent Puritans to go into exile in Europe. C.They were deeply affected by Geneva and Zurich. D. Elizabeth sent Puritans to go into exile in Europe. ...
In 2012, when Herrod rotated out of his position as bishop of the Bisbee ward — a Mormon jurisdiction similar to a Catholic parish — he told incoming Bishop Robert “Kim” Mauzy about the abuse in the Adams household. Instead of rescuing MJ by reporting the abuse to authorit...
(in 2021, a small conservative catholic blog named the pillar reported that jeffrey burrill, the secretary general of the us conference of catholic bishops, was a regular user of grindr. the publication reported that burrill “visited gay bars and private residences while using a location-...
Juice, as in power. Or, as we in Chicago put it, clout. Whatever you call it, we got it big time. All over this land. In so many ways. “I have in the past, made note of some of those ways. And would like now to make note of another. “Atlantic magazine just put out its...
Dr. Hudson: Well, Protestantism was created by the financial interests. Here was the problem that bankers had. If they lent money to the Catholic kings, the Catholic kings were so oppressive that they kept going bankrupt. They couldn’t raise the money to pay for the wars, and they kept...