Today's Fresh Blogs...

• Church Agrees to Pay Off Victims

  Published: September 8, 2007, 12:05 pm

  Tags: Roman Catholics

  The Roman Catholic Church in San Diego has agreed to pay almost $200 million (198) “to settle 144 claims of sexual abuse by clergy.” This is not the first time that an American Roman Catholic Church agrees to pay off victims of abuse: earlier this year, the Church in LA agreed to “a record $660m [...]

  Comments (0)   Blog link Rating: 0

• Burma's Nightmare: Where Shall One Go With A Heart Full of Non-Violence?

  Published: October 14, 2007, 8:48 pm

  Tags: Original Reporting, Endangered Species, Freedom Of Speech, India, Christianity, Crime, Roman Catholics, Genocide, United Nations, Mass Murder, Teachers, Family, Death, Burma, Buddhism, Cambodia

  A Conversation with Dr. Jack Kornfield, American Buddhist Teacher trained in Thailand, Burma and India…on Burma, Buddhism, H.H. the Dalai Lama, and non-violence. Kornfield is one of the foremost teachers of Theravada Buddhism in the West. He was trained as a Buddhist monk in Thailand, Burma and India (He is on the far right in the photo).

  Comments (0)   Blog link Rating: 0

• Death Penalty: Dead Man Talking

  Published: October 29, 2007, 4:08 pm

  Tags: Law Amp Amp Legal Matters, Media Criticism, Minorities, Racism, Crime, Roman Catholics, Protestants, Political Correctness, Poverty, Psychology, Women, Family, Death, Human Rights, Torture, Moral Values

  executions, groups of Catholics, since forever, have stood outside in cold or heat of night protesting each execution of a human being in the United States. So have other religious groups, like the Quakers, who hold each God-created human life as sacred. So have many others protested the death penalty, both spiritual and secular groups

  Comments (0)   Blog link Rating: 0

• Catholic Church, Alleged Arson in San Francisco: Media Sometimes Sets Its Own Fires Too

  Published: November 1, 2007, 9:47 pm

  Tags: Blogging, Law Amp Amp Legal Matters, Media Criticism, Glbt Issues, Christianity, Crime, Roman Catholics, News, Debates, Journalism, Spin, Fires

  came, whether Episcopal, Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, has certainly had its problems, its incomprehensibles, and its horrendous intrusions, by some, on innocents. But, Mother Church also has legions of quiet people who have dedicated their lives to goodness, who do not trumpet it, whether priest, nun or layperson.' If one really

  Comments (0)   Blog link Rating: 0

• Abortion: What It Takes To Make It To Earth

  Published: November 6, 2007, 12:21 am

  Tags: Abortion, Christianity, Evangelicals, Roman Catholics, Judaism, Medicine, Ideologies, Protestants, Political Correctness, Feminism, Religious Right, Christian Conservatives, Children, Family, Mother, Father, Babies, Philosophy

  I had a night dream long ago about how hard it was to get to earth. For those of us who get pregnant when just passing through a room where a man is reading a newspaper and no more, it has sometimes seemed as though women becoming pregnant, carrying to term, and laboring to bring a living baby into this world is easy, common, like falling out of a

  Comments (0)   Blog link Rating: 0

• Kristallnacht: The Night of Shattering Glass, 9 November 1938

  Published: November 9, 2007, 7:43 am

  Tags: Endangered Species, Glbt Issues, Anti Semitism, Christianity, Roman Catholics, Germany, Ideology, Jews, Civil Liberties, Tyranny, World War Ii, Nazis, Protestants, Mass Murder, Storytelling, Death, Poland, Totalitarianism, Corruption

  The Night of The Shattering Glass otherwise known as Kristallnacht, took place November 9, 1938, marking to that date, the most widespread attack against Jews in peacetime Germany and Austria. In France, two days prior, a 17 year old Jew had shot a German embassy staffer in retaliation for the egregious treatment of his father and family at

  Comments (0)   Blog link Rating: 0

• Guest Voice: I, Too, Am A Flip-Flopper

  Published: April 25, 2008, 9:18 am

  Tags: Elections, Roman Catholics, Democratic Party, Pope Benedict, Pope, Guest Contributor, Barack Obama, 2008 Elections, Religion, Democrats, Hillary Clinton, Politics

  the words I had read by the Roman historian Tacitus, They made a wasteland and called it peace, became too poignant for even me to ignore. Although disillusioned with the war, I continued to be a halfhearted Republican for several more years, while still in the military and for a time while working for a defense contractor. By the time I

  Comments (0)   Blog link Rating: 0

• Pedophile Priests and Latinos: A Diminishing U.S. Flock

  Published: April 28, 2008, 4:43 pm

  Tags: North America, Other, Protestants, Christians, Pope Benedict, Newspapers, Vatican, Hispanics, Columnists, Christianity, Minorities, Society, Evangelicals, Roman Catholics, Usa, Mexico, Sexuality

  in part: “As for Catholics in the United States, almost a third of the population has been brought up in that faith, but today only 24 percent of Americans call themselves Catholic, less than a half of those who identify themselves as Protestant/Evangelical - almost 52 percent. The study clearly shows that the strongest adherents of

  Comments (0)   Blog link Rating: 0

• The Cardinal Speaks: Father Pfleger Agrees Not To

  Published: May 31, 2008, 2:38 am

  Tags: Christians, Multiculturalism, Moral Values, Black African American, Culture Wars, Popular Culture, Protestants, Religion, Racism, Roman Catholics, Social Commentary, Money Finance

  In the genre of Pastors and Ministers In the News Related to One Candidate or Another through Frail Associations or by Entering the Time Traveling Machine: Father Pfleger agrees not to speak about specific presidential candidates, that is…. otherwise free to speak about whatever else. At The Unity Church in Chicago recently, Father

  Comments (0)   Blog link Rating: 0

• Senator Obama Resigns His Membership at Trinity Church

  Published: May 31, 2008, 6:52 pm

  Tags: Popular Culture, Protestants, Christians, Moral Values, Newsweek Blogitics, Black African American, Hispanics, Language, Barack Obama, Freedom Of Speech, Evangelicals, Roman Catholics, Social Commentary, 2008 Elections

  UPDATE: Juan Williams reports to Fox News that many black people surrounding him having angry reactions to Obama resigning from Trinity. UPDATE: Senator Obama has made his statement tonight saying he has resigned from Trinity. The Clinton campaign has refused comment. Likely, after today’s delegates meeting, not to torpedo any chance

  Comments (0)   Blog link Rating: 0

• On Moral Relativism in America

  Published: July 17, 2008, 9:29 am

  Tags: Pope Benedict, Moral Values, Philosophy, Human Rights, Multiculturalism, Society, Roman Catholics, Religion

  The Pope is in the midst of a world tour, currently in Australia, and gave a speech this week where he criticized moral relativism. This took place at one of the world’s largest youth gatherings. Relativism, by indiscriminately giving value to practically everything, has made experience' all-important. Yet experiences, detached from

  Comments (0)   Blog link Rating: 0