An Ecumenical Ministry in the Parish of St Patrick's Catholic Church In San Diego USA

米国サンディエゴの聖パトリックカトリック教会教区におけるエキュメニカル宣教

Monday, March 15, 2021

Faith leaders’ year of pandemic: grief, solace, resilience

Faith leaders’ year of pandemic: grief, solace, resilience
Associated Press: The pandemic, said one assistant pastor, “has called us to rethink and re-imagine what our philosophy of ministering really is in the age of COVID.”

Vatican says Catholic Church can’t bless same-sex unions
NBC News: The formal response to a question on the topic said that the church should “welcome with respect and sensitivity persons with homosexual inclinations.”

‘Think of vaccines as part of God’s plan’: Clergy members urge the hesitant to get shots.*
The New York Times: Thousands of clergy members from a cross-section of faiths -- imams, rabbis, priests, swamis -- are trying to coax hesitant Americans to get vaccinated against Covid-19.

Pastors are leaving their congregations after losing their churchgoers to QAnon
Business Insider: Pastors are trying to fight conspiracy theories and misinformation that have gripped churches.

From Massachusetts to Missouri, faith-based schools seek to shield governance under religious exemptions
Baptist News Global: The highest court in Massachusetts ruled this month that a social work professor at a nondenominational Christian college is not a “minister,” meaning she may proceed with a discrimination suit against the college.

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