http://www.religionnewsblog.com Religion news about religious cults, sects, world religions, and related issues Mon, 13 Feb 2012 11:39:52 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26195/martin-e-marty-papal-headlines-and-apathy http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26195/martin-e-marty-papal-headlines-and-apathy#comments Wed, 28 Sep 2011 09:29:41 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=26195 The Pope should have learned by now that “warning” does little in complex situations.

German and European Catholics argue: does the Pope’s discouragement of the hopeful people who once flocked to the movement of aggiornamento and to generous ecumenism four decades ago contribute to the problems?]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26195/martin-e-marty-papal-headlines-and-apathy/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/25605/scourge-of-americas-paedophile-priests-sets-up-shop-in-uk http://www.religionnewsblog.com/25605/scourge-of-americas-paedophile-priests-sets-up-shop-in-uk#comments Fri, 14 Jan 2011 10:25:22 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=25605 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/25605/scourge-of-americas-paedophile-priests-sets-up-shop-in-uk/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/25584/austrians-left-church-in-record-numbers-amid-abuse-scandal http://www.religionnewsblog.com/25584/austrians-left-church-in-record-numbers-amid-abuse-scandal#comments Tue, 11 Jan 2011 10:31:02 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=25584 Catholic Church in 2010, the Church said Tuesday, pointing to the abuse scandal as the main reason.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/25584/austrians-left-church-in-record-numbers-amid-abuse-scandal/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/25576/hundreds-injured-in-philippines-religious-procession http://www.religionnewsblog.com/25576/hundreds-injured-in-philippines-religious-procession#comments Sun, 09 Jan 2011 12:20:38 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=25576 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/25576/hundreds-injured-in-philippines-religious-procession/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/25575/de-baptism-in-belgium-in-wake-of-child-abuse-scandal http://www.religionnewsblog.com/25575/de-baptism-in-belgium-in-wake-of-child-abuse-scandal#comments Sun, 09 Jan 2011 11:59:52 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=25575 Catholic Church are also shaking the faith of followers, with more and more people asking to be struck off baptism registers -- a global movement known as "de-baptism".]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/25575/de-baptism-in-belgium-in-wake-of-child-abuse-scandal/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/25419/vatican-condums-sometimes-acceptable http://www.religionnewsblog.com/25419/vatican-condums-sometimes-acceptable#comments Mon, 22 Nov 2010 09:28:07 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=25419 Pope Benedict XVI says for the first time that while the use of condoms should not be seen as a "moral solution", it could be justified in stopping the spread of AIDS.

But the Vatican moved Sunday to counter campaigners' claims of a U-turn in Church policy, emphasising in a statement that condom use was acceptable only in highly "exceptional" cases, AP reports.

Our take: If you don't play the game, you don't get to set the rules. What people do in the privacy of their bedrooms is none of the Pope's -- or the Catholic Church's -- business.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/25419/vatican-condums-sometimes-acceptable/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/25383/two-catholic-churches-in-brooklyn-will-close http://www.religionnewsblog.com/25383/two-catholic-churches-in-brooklyn-will-close#comments Tue, 16 Nov 2010 07:40:43 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=25383 Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn plans to close two churches, fold six parishes into three and impose strict budget constraints on all 198 of its parishes.

The move, announced from pulpits on Sunday, was described by church officials as the first phase of a broad consolidation that will result in further closings or mergers over the next two years, eventually affecting every parish in the diocese, which serves an estimated 1.5 million Catholics in Brooklyn and Queens. ]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/25383/two-catholic-churches-in-brooklyn-will-close/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/25337/barcelonas-sagrada-familia-finally-becomes-a-church http://www.religionnewsblog.com/25337/barcelonas-sagrada-familia-finally-becomes-a-church#comments Mon, 08 Nov 2010 08:28:43 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=25337 Sagrada Familia church, but 128 years after construction began Catholic faithful worshipped there for the first time on Sunday.

Pope Benedict XVI celebrated Mass to give his official blessing to the church designed by architect Antoni Gaudi, whose sculptural masterpieces dot the city in the region of Catalonia.

While work is not scheduled to finish for many more years on the intricate and colourful Sagrada Familia, enough had been done to welcome the pontiff, including installing last minute stained-glass windows.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/25337/barcelonas-sagrada-familia-finally-becomes-a-church/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/25322/vatican-warns-of-wayward-opus-angelorum-sect http://www.religionnewsblog.com/25322/vatican-warns-of-wayward-opus-angelorum-sect#comments Fri, 05 Nov 2010 09:35:05 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=25322 The Vatican has warned Catholic bishops around the world to monitor carefully a secretive traditionalist sect which prays to angels to combat demons.

The Church said some members of the Opus Angelorum sect were carrying out "activities that disturb the ecclesiastical community".]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/25322/vatican-warns-of-wayward-opus-angelorum-sect/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/25270/popes-legionaries-of-christ-delegate-warns-of-shipwreck http://www.religionnewsblog.com/25270/popes-legionaries-of-christ-delegate-warns-of-shipwreck#comments Thu, 28 Oct 2010 04:48:33 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=25270 The papal official running the disgraced Legionaries of Christ has warned that the conservative order faces "certain shipwreck" unless its superiors and members work together to change course following revelations that their founder led a double life.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/25270/popes-legionaries-of-christ-delegate-warns-of-shipwreck/feed 0