|
Search This Site
|
Religion
Articles under this topic: 5
|
|
|
In the Catholic Church’s conversation of homosexuality, one group consistently left out is the parents of gay children. As a result, many gays and their families are leaving the Church because they do not feel welcome or comfortable with its teachings on the subject.
|
|
Published: Jul-21-2010 | Times read: 29 | Rating: 0.00 [Votes: 0] |
|
|
|
|
The first thing a visitor notices about the woodsy lakefront property of Camp Beechpoint is the quiet. It is this same quiet that scares many of the inner-city children who come for a week in this natural setting in southwestern Michigan. Because they are so accustomed to traffic noise, gunshots, drugs, prostitution, and physical abuse, it takes the children two or three days to acclimate themselves.
|
|
Published: Oct-03-2007 | Times read: 845 | Rating: 0.00 [Votes: 0] |
|
|
|
|
A shoeless boy wearily weaves his way down the street, alone, in a limp pair of soiled shorts and a torn T-shirt. Heaps of trash pile up on vacant corners and in the grassy medians of the city’s streets. Dogs of many breeds, some of them obviously sick with disease, listlessly amble around the neighborhood, avoiding strutting roosters and a mother hen with her perky, curious chicks. Near a busy community laundry, a shabby, dazed young man sits slumped over. As the women scrub clothes, he cuddles a greasy white plastic canister of glue, his nose stuck down as deep in it as his face will allow.
|
|
Published: Aug-07-2007 | Times read: 404 | Rating: 0.00 [Votes: 0] |
|
|
|
|
As a child, whenever I asked my mother some deep theological question, she tried to answer me in a way that my child brain could understand. Typically unsatisfied with her first answer, I persisted because I really wanted to know the realities of the world. She would usually conclude, however, with the standard, “that’s just one of God’s mysteries.” This response bothered me back then but now I realize that she was really nurturing my feminine response to reality by encouraging me to embrace the unanswerable, the unseen, the unknowable.
|
|
Published: Aug-07-2007 | Times read: 560 | Rating: 0.00 [Votes: 0] |
|
|
|
|
This article was presented to the A.K. Rice Institute Annual Conference in Houston, Texas, in April 1997. It was originally written when Dr. Bonfiglio was a novice in the Sisters of St. Joseph (1979-80). She lived with the sisters 1975-84.
|
|
Published: Jan-15-2006 | Times read: 475 | Rating: 0.00 [Votes: 0] |
|
|
|
