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Wednesday, May 9, 2012

Fugitive Catholic Priests Avoid Trial by Fleeing Country

At least 32 Roman Catholic priests have fled the country to avoid prosecution since 1985 and only five have returned to face trial, reports the Chicago Tribune.

	Getting On The Right Side of History For LGBT Rights
	Possible Hate Crime As Historic Church Is Vandalized
	An Intellectual Journey To Islam
	Buddhist Abbey A Dream Fulfilled For U.S. Nuns
	Rosa Parks Gets Statue In National Cathedral

BLOG POSTS

	Brad Hirschfield: Missing Maurice Sendak Sendack knew that we should never pretend about the potential danger of human rampaging, but neither should we lose hope about the possibility of returning home. We don’t, as Reb Maurice teaches, escape to a better place, as much as we return to where we came from.
	Arnold M. Eisen: Holiness After the Death of 6 Million Holiness is meant to pervade all of daily behavior, not to inhabit the high points of experience only. Love means reaching out toward neighbors and the world with the same care, regard and generosity we normally reserve for ourselves and those closest to us.
	Charles Redfern: What Would Happen if Environmentalists Learned to Laugh and Play Cards? Can we schmooze and trade business cards and crack jokes and slap backs and form partnerships? Or will we keep alienating potential collaborators with a brand of green fundamentalism?
	Robert P. Jones, Ph.D.: Why Are Millennials Leaving the Church? Pastors and priests seeking to fill their pews with young churchgoers have a tough task ahead. Many younger Millennials have already moved away from the religion in which they were raised, mostly joining the growing ranks of the religiously unaffiliated.
	Anat Biletzki: Why I Am Not a Liberal Zionist: A Response to Liberal Zionists Speak Out If Zionism has been based on a set of values — any values — that “override whatever injustices statehood has brought,” then it has taken us as far as one can get from the set of values that undergird liberal democracy.

Related articles

• Catholic Priest in Sydney married to a Filipina (tsaynatown.wordpress.com)
• A Farewell to Beloved Children’s Author (and Atheist) Maurice Sendak (patheos.com)
• How Maurice Sendak’s ‘Wild Things’ moved children’s books toward realism (csmonitor.com)
• “The Ire of Eire”: Catholic Rebellion Gathers Steam (queeringthechurch.com)
• Belief Blog’s Morning Speed Read for Wednesday, May 9 (religion.blogs.cnn.com)
• Sex, Celibacy, and Priesthood: A Bishop’s Provocative Inquisition (prweb.com)
• Irish Catholics want priests to marry (tithebarn.wordpress.com)
• Why can’t Catholic priests marry? (askcatholicgirl.wordpress.com)
• Calls for married Catholic priests ‘should be heard’ (yorkshirepost.co.uk)
• Essay Fiesta Salutes Maurice Sendak (essayfiesta.com)

Atheist’s and Salvation

Intriguing thoughts around the decline of the priesthood, rise of social sciences, and the challenge for those who have no need for an irrelevant God out there concept, whose making a list of do’s and don’ts not with followers living their faith.

Related articles

• Noted atheist Christopher Hitchens responds to liberal “Christianity” (jdylanparker.wordpress.com)
• atheism is about facing up to a grim reality (sparrowsandsandcastles.wordpress.com)
• Yes, life without God can be bleak. Atheism is about facing up to that – Julian Baggini – The Guardian (richarddawkins.net)
• An animated introduction to social science (teachinghighschoolpsychology.blogspot.com)
• A New Salvation: Alain de Botton’s Religion for Atheists (themillions.com)
• What’s Interesting About Religion? (scienceblogs.com)
• Yes, life without God can be bleak. Atheism is about facing up to that. (alwaysquestionauthority.wordpress.com)
• Yes, life without God can be bleak. Atheism is about facing up to that. (alwaysquestionauthority.wordpress.com)
• Tilly’s t-shirts quite inspired by the Salvation Army’s WARdrobe t-shirts (adland.tv)
• Prof. Narendra Nayak: “Blasphemy is a Fundamental Right.” (smritidaniel.wordpress.com)