The Good Samaritan: Is an illegal immigrant my neighbor?

Monday evening, Missouri’s Catholic bishops weighed in on the debate over illegal immigrants by airing their view that the Bible calls us to treat them as Jesus would. In a statement delivered to Governor Matt Blunt and state legislators, the bishops said that political candidates need to cease vieing for who can be tougher on [...]

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Faith headlines 1.30.08

From the Associated Press: “Bush says his faith helped him overcome alcohol ‘addiction’”
— President George W. Bush recently talked openly about his use of alcohol, defining his use at one point as an addiction and saying that his recognition of “a higher power” was the first step for him to change his consumption habits.
From the [...]

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Films, Faith and Interactive Fun

Vote for your best spiritual movie of 2008. Beliefnet.com has released their list of nominees for best spiritual performances in motion pictures. The categories include: “Best Spiritual Film, Best Spiritual Performance, and Best Spiritual Documentary,” according to the web site.
The voting is fully interactive with links to movie clips and a point–counter-point for each movie. [...]

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Who will evangelicals claim as candidate?

There is a good Q and A with John Green, a Senior Fellow in Religion and American Politics, on Pew Forum. Green gives insight into the makeup of the Republican presidential field of candidates and the appeal each one has on evangelical voters. Click here to read more.

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New Baptist Celebration!

This Wednesday marks the beginning of the New Baptist Celebration, which is uniting twenty thousand Baptists at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta.
More than 30 leaders of the Baptist organization have spent the last year planning the “Unity in Christ” themed Celebration. As the Baptist denomination has faced internal conflicts in the past, particularly [...]

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Sticky Fingers

Embezzlement in the Catholic Church has reached a new a high.

Researchers at Villanova University have found that 85 percent of Roman Catholic dioceses reported acts of embezzlement in the past five years. For 11 percent of those dioceses, more than $500,000 had been stolen.

Charles Zech, the director of the Center for the Study of [...]

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Tax justice and breakfast. Yum.

Tax justice may not be your typical breakfast table topic but for some Missouri state legislators it was on the menu for the first annual Legislative Breakfast Forum hosted by Missouri Christians Against Racism and Poverty (MOCARP) and Missouri Churches Uniting in Christ (MOCUIC) on Jan. 23.
The event brought together a panel of legislators and [...]

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SLU basketball coach takes on an archbishop

Vs.
The Associated Press reported this week on Roman Catholic Archbishop Raymond Burke’s public call to chastise new Saint Louis University basketball coach Rick Majerus for advocating abortion rights at a Hillary Clinton rally recently.
If the Jesuit school heeds the archbishop, [...]

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That’s kosher

According to the Bloomberg News, Chinese exporters are turning to the use of Jewish rabbis to certify their food as kosher in order to calm fears about tainted food products.
In an earlier story, Mintel’s Global New Products Database found that American consumers find the “kosher” label on food packages more appealing than other claims, such [...]

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Mormon leader Gordon Hinckley dies

In case anyone hasn’t heard, the 97-year-old leader of the Mormon Church died on Jan. 27.
The position as church leader is a lifetime appointment, and Hinckley is known for his work on establishing Mormonism as a respected world religion.
The Associated Press quotes presidential hopeful Mitt Romney as saying that he will miss Hinckley and is [...]

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