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Formation Toolbox: Friending
So tell me, what is the verbal form of “friend” or “friendship”? Kind of strange, no? Why can’t I friend someone. I mean, I can befriend someone, but what do people who are already friends do?
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Late Jesuit and ex-congressman Robert Drinan accused of attempted sex assault
A popular online advice columnist has said that the late Rev. Robert Drinan, a famed Jesuit priest and onetime Democratic congressman from Massachusetts, tried to kiss and fondle her in the 1970s when she was 18 or 19 years old.
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Monsignor William Lynn convicted in landmark Catholic sex abuse case
A Philadelphia priest was convicted today of one count of child endangerment, becoming the first cleric in the Catholic Church’s long-running clergy abuse scandal to be tried and found guilty of shielding molesters.
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As Cornerstone wraps up, Wild Goose Festival takes off
Demon Hunter. Vengeance Rising. Payable on Death.
Since 1984, these and other Christian heavy metal bands have been congregating every summer in a field near Chicago for the Cornerstone Festival. And for much of the 1980s an...
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Museum of Biblical Art raises its profile amid array of challenges
When art historian Bruce Boucher wanted to reunite the three panels of a huge 14th-century altarpiece from three different countries, the Italian lender of one of the pieces had one condition: the finished product had to be sho...
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Donations to religious institutions decline for second straight year
Post-recession America is beginning to open its wallet to charities again, but is not giving as generously to religious institutions.
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Hutterites blast ‘exploitative’ show on National Geographic Channel
Hutterite bishops say a new National Geographic reality series that follows the members of a rural Montana colony gives a "distorted and exploitative version" of life inside a little-known Christian sect.
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Sandusky charity transfers $2 million to Christian group
A Christian foster care organization has been tapped to take charge of $2 million in assets from the troubled charity run by former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky, who is on trial for multiple counts of chi...
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Is homeless crackdown a sign of compassion fatigue?
(RNS) A growing number of cities across the United States are making it harder to be homeless. Philadelphia recently banned outdoor feeding of people in city parks. Denver has begun enforcing a ban on eating and sleeping on pr...
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Black Southern Baptists try to keep expectations in check for first black SBC president
With the Southern Baptist Convention poised to elect its first African-American president at its meeting next week in New Orleans, the mostly black congregation at Colonial Baptist Church is equal parts excited and astonished.