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...should have been a celebration of unity, but it turned into a shocking tableau of discord. Louisiana bishop Dan Solomon was presiding over the General Conference of the United Methodist Convention, a contentious but usually joyous quadrennial meeting to plot the future of America's second-largest Protestant denomination. Solomon had proved an amiable and unflappable moderator, but now his voice cracked. "I speak to you with anguish about what is about to unfold," he said. "I bury my head in prayer. I cannot witness what is about to occur." As 5,000 delegates looked on, Solomon's head...
...last week when she donned the stole and the chasuble of her new office, on the day when her Episcopal bishop installed her as the dean of Cleveland's grand Trinity Cathedral, the Very Rev. Tracey Lind took a moment to think back on Sunday School, which in her case took place in a Reform synagogue. As a child, she had been half-Jewish, half-Christian, and the rabbi, who was teaching about the Holocaust at the time, glanced up shrewdly and asked, "Tracey, you could have passed. Would you have died for your faith or denied...
...Behind the Music episodes. The priest's collar is her latest zag. After years of criticizing Roman Catholicism (including infamously ripping up a picture of Pope John Paul II on Saturday Night Live in 1992), she decided last year to be ordained as a priest by controversial Irish clergyman Bishop Michael Cox, the leader of a tiny religious sect. However, O'Connor hasn't quite joined mainstream Catholicism. Cox has come under fire in the past for reportedly offering confession over the telephone. And according to Des Cryan, assistant director of the Catholic Press and Information Office in Dublin...
...National Review's writers have written that Ridge would alienate conservative Catholics. They note that, because of Ridge's avowed pro-choice positions, his own bishop refuses to let him attend church functions. Ridge's problem is that of John F. Kennedy's '40 in reverse--he is not Catholic enough...
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