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Human Cloning Breakthrough Prompts Religious Objections

Human cloning “treats human beings as products,” Boston Cardinal Sean O’Malley said on behalf of the bishops, “manufactured to order to suit other people’s wishes. … A technical advance in human cloning is not progress for humanity but its opposite.”
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Candida Moss debunks the ‘myth’ of Christian persecution

| May 16, 2013

Too many modern Christians invoke, to lamentable effect, an ancient history of persecution that didn’t exist, Notre Dame theologian Candida Moss argues in her newly published book, “The Myth of Persecution: How Early Christians Invented A Story of Martyrdom.”
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Abuse watchdogs say bishops’ ‘failings’ hurt their credibility

| May 14, 2013

The latest scandal has shaken Newark, N.J., where Archbishop John Myers failed to stop a priest from ministering with children in several parishes even though he had assured prosecutors that he would enforce a lifetime ban on the priest’s access to children following a molestation case.
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Pope tells nuns to be spiritual mothers, not ‘spinsters’

| May 10, 2013

Speaking about the nuns’ vow of chastity, Pope Francis stressed that it must be a “fertile” chastity, generating “spiritual children in the Church.”
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Dalai Lama wows Maryland crowd, rubs noses with governor

| May 9, 2013

The Dalai Lama came to Maryland as part of a six-city U.S. tour that will also bring him to Portland and Eugene, Ore.; Louisville; New Orleans; and Madison, Wis. To the Maryland crowd, he spoke of fighting between Catholics and Protestants in Northern Ireland, and Sunni and Shiite Muslims, and prescribed compassion and forgiveness as the cure for conflict.
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International Seamen’s Center receives major funding for its new building

| May 3, 2013

After 40 years welcoming seafarers to a patched and boarded up gray building, the volunteers of the International Seamen's Center at the port of Wilmington got to pick out wall and carpet colors for their new building this week.
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Prayers from one Cape Fear National Day of Prayer observance

| May 2, 2013

About 100 people attended the Hugh MacRae Park observance of the National Day of Prayer in Wilmington on Thursday (May 2.)
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Q&A with Greg Laurie about prayer in times of grief

| Apr 29, 2013

(RNS) Pastor Greg Laurie, honorary chairman of this year’s National Day of Prayer (May 2), talked about prayer, grief and what not to say when a friend’s loved one dies.
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Pope Francis orders overhaul of U.S. nuns to continue

| Apr 15, 2013

VATICAN CITY (RNS) The decision to continue a Vatican overhaul of U.S. nuns, while not entirely unexpected, could nonetheless bring an end to Pope Francis’ honeymoon with the many American Catholics who had viewed the crackdown on nuns as heavy-handed and unnecessary.
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As they turn 150, Adventists still pray for the Apocalypse

| Apr 10, 2013

A small band of believers has mushroomed to more than 17 million baptized members, including 1.2 million in the U.S. Nearly 8,000 Adventists schools dot dozens of countries. Hundreds of church-owned hospitals and clinics mend minds and bodies around the world. You might expect Adventists to celebrate their success while marking their church’s 150th anniversary this May. There’s just one problem: the church wasn’t supposed to last this long.
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Top Mormon leader warns against ‘tolerance trap’

| Apr 9, 2013

(RNS) Just because the nation may change its laws to "tolerate legalized acts of immorality" does not make those acts any less spiritually damaging, senior Mormon apostle Boyd K. Packer said Saturday (April 6) at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints' 183rd Annual General Conference.
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