Category: Blog Archive
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Pew Forum on the ‘Zeal of the Convert’
A new study by the Pew Research Center’s Forum on Religion & Public Life finds that “overall, people who have switched religions consistently exhibit higher levels of religious commitment than those who still belong to their childhood faith, but the differences are relatively modest.” The analysis finds that people who have switched faiths (or joined…
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Thoughts on the OCL Unity conference
The Road to Unity; From Vision to Action was the title of the conference that just wrapped up this evening in Ligonier, PA. You can see the topics discussed here, and read some of the day to day activity on Fr. Peter-Michael Preble’s website. Presentations were very good. Many of the people who spoke were…
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‘little steps forward in the right direction’
From the Zenit news service story, With Orthodox: “Little Steps, the Right Direction.” The Vatican’s official for promoting Christian unity has characterized the most recent session of dialogue with the Orthodox as “little steps forward in the right direction.” This was the estimation given by Cardinal Walter Kasper to Vatican Radio today as he evaluated…
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OCL’s Road to Unity Conference
Fr. Peter-Michael Preble is blogging from the Road to Unity conference here. Ann Rodgers of the Pittsburgh-Post Gazette covers day one with “Orthodox Christians in U.S. face obstacles before unifying.” Sister Sara Elisabet Oftedal, co-founder of Martha and Mary House in Escondido, Calif., a small home for women who choose adoption over abortion, said her…