BY DAVID CRARY — Aug 23, 2022 When San Diego Bishop Robert McElroy received his prestigious red hat at the Vatican on Saturday, he brought to the College of Cardinals a fervent loyalty to Pope Francis that has often put him at odds with the conservative majority in the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. McElroy, 68, … Continue reading Newest U. S. Catholic Cardinal – A Surprisingly “Progressive” Pick
NOTE: I was not much of a fan of Frederick Buechner, a writer who died last week at 96. I tried his quartet of novels about a semi-charlatan-but-maybe-a-saint preacher in Florida, but Buechner lost me with his character’s name, Leo Bebb, which is bar none the most uneuphonious & off-putting monicker in my experience of … Continue reading Frederick Buechner: Religious Novelist
J. Deotis Roberts, a pioneer of Black theology, dies at 95 Washington Post — August 16, 2022 By Harrison Smith August 16, 2022 The night of Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination in 1968, the Rev. J. Deotis Roberts was attending a conference at Duke University, listening to German theologian Jürgen Moltmann present a paper on the … Continue reading Obits: Music & Theology: J. Deotis Roberts & Butch Thompson
ProPublica: A Right-Wing Think Tank Claimed to Be a Church. Now, Members of Congress Want to Investigate Andrea Suizzo — August 2, 2022 Forty members of Congress on Monday asked the IRS and the Treasury to investigate what the lawmakers termed an “alarming pattern” of right-wing advocacy groups registering with the tax agency as churches, a … Continue reading Shining Light on the New Church of Rightwing Dark Money
Moscow’s ex-chief rabbi warns of ‘dark clouds’ for Russian Jews Issued on: 28/07/2022 Jerusalem (AFP) – Moscow’s former chief rabbi now living in exile in Israel warned Thursday of “dark clouds on the horizon” for Russian Jews, as ties between the two countries deteriorate over the Ukraine war. Pinchas Goldschmidt, who left Russia in March … Continue reading War Notes: Russian Jewish Community facing “dark clouds” over Ukraine war