OH, dear, they’re off again! Catholics and Anglicans in Australia are in a snit over a very funny nativity TV commercial created for electronic goods retailers Betta Electrical which depicts the baby Jesus tossing crap gifts back at the three wise men.
The words “Give a Better Gift” then flashes across the screen.
Christian leaders immediately branded [...]
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AN Episcopalian Church diocese in California has voted to become the first to break away from the US church in protest at its support for clergypersons of a certain sexual orientation.
It all goes back to the election of gay Gene Robinson as a bishop in New Hampshire in 2003. With what we’ve come to expect of [...]
“WHAT a wonderful Christian attitude some have,” says a commenter to a Daily Mail story about a priest who has been receiving hate mail.
And why has this member of the clergy been the subject of a hate campaign that has even included what appears to be an arson attack? Because this member of the clergy [...]
ONE of religion’s more palatable exponents, South Africa’s likable and genial Archbishop Desmond Tutu, is on the wireless on Tuesday night, having a knock at the Anglican Church and its leadership for its attitudes towards homosexuality.
In an interview with BBC Radio 4, he says the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, has failed to demonstrate [...]
SCOTTISH Christians are predictably angry after two bishops in England were nominated for Stonewall’s award of Bigot of the Year.
CARE Scotland want the country’s Executive to stop working with Stonewall after the Catholic Archbishop of Birmingham, Vincent Nichols (63, left), and the C of E Bishop of Hereford, Anthony Priddis (58, right, below), were nominated [...]
The Freethinker award for the most absurd (and funniest) quote of the week goes to the Catholic Archbishop of Sydney, George Pell.
My task as a Christian leader is to engage with reality, to contribute to debate on important issues, to open people’s minds and to point out when the emperor is wearing few or no [...]
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