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...activists dream of. "I don't believe that the solution to the church's problem is to replace clericalism with laism," Bishop Wilton Gregory, the president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, told TIME. "I do not see the Catholic Church becoming a democracy." That was not Jesus' vision, he contends; and it is not the church that Scripture and tradition reveal. The touchiness on all sides was displayed on Friday when the conference canceled its Dallas invitation to a major victims group because the group had filed suit against the bishops on Thursday...
...quite significant that the standoff between Israelis and Palestinians at the Church of the Nativity [WORLD, May 20] occurred in one of the holiest sites in Christianity, the presumed birthplace of Jesus. I found the way the besieged Palestinians behaved at this holy site extremely disturbing. Instead of respecting the sanctuary offered them, they acted like common thieves, robbing the Armenian priests of their crucifixes and blankets. If the situation were different and Christian militants were seeking refuge in a mosque or some other Muslim holy site, would they be granted sanctuary? Would the abuse of an Islamic holy site...
...MIDDLE EAST Modern Aramaic (400,000 speakers) is a descendant of Aramaic, thought to have been Jesus' native tongue. Found in the Talmud, it was the main spoken language of Galilee in the 1st centuries...
...like ‘Oh Jesus,’” Franken says. “The guy really didn’t say look at the view. He said, ‘Feed...
...irreverence has limits. "We will not portray Jesus as a vegetable," says Phil Vischer, 35, the Billy Graham-Bill Gates hybrid who made the first video in 1993 with fellow Bible-college dropout Mike Nawrocki. ("We failed chapel," Vischer says, because they were always up late the night before writing puppet skits.) Raised on a cultural diet of church and MTV, they wanted to create something that combined family and production values. They came up with an animated video based on the story of Daniel, Where's God When I'm S-Scared? It sold almost exclusively in Christian bookstores...