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A MORMON CHURCH IN AUSTRALIA IS RECEIVING PRAISE AFTER A PHOTO OF A MUSLIM MAN PRAYING IN THEIR CHURCH GOES VIRAL. A Mormon church in Brisbane, Australia has received plenty of praise from individuals and groups around the world when they invited a group of Muslim worshippers from a local mosque to visit their Church and pray with them. Facebook pictures of Ali Kadri, who is a representative of the Islamic Council of Queensland, show that he and his fellow worshippers prayed at the Church of Jesus Christ Latter-Day Saints on December 12. One of the members of the...

Responses to Michael G. Lawler and Todd A. Salzman The editors of America have asked a selection of theologians and bishops to respond to the article, "Beyond Catechesis" (9/12) by Michael G. Lawler and Todd A. Salzman. In the coming weeks, we hope to add more responses to this page. We will also continue the conversation on the role of Catholic universities with an article by Cardinal Donald W. Wuerl, which will appear in the September 26 issue. Our symposium begins with articles by Thomas Groome, Bishop Thomas Curry and Vincent Miller.   'Nothing is more central to the church's...

What is the proper role of theology? When Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted of Phoenix accused St. Joseph's Hospital of performing a direct abortion to save the life of a mother and withdrew its status as a Catholic hospital, a question was raised: Could any such perceived lack of fidelity to Catholic teaching be applied to Catholic universities as well? The question is especially pertinent because the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops is approaching its 10-year review of the application of "Ex Corde Ecclesiae," Pope John Paul II's apostolic constitution on the Catholic university. What if the U.S. bishops were to...

People cite the Catholic catechism as if its formulations settle all theological reflection. If the faith is to stay relevant to lived Catholicism, it needs the constant exploration of the sources and the "what-ifs?" that arise from actual experience. The rote answers of the catechism are sufficient only for the day, but not enough for the width and breadth of Catholic faith" Catholic Theology is not catechism. The point is made by analogy to a meat processing factory making sausage (theology) and the supermarket with cellophane-wrapped links (catechism). Much to the chagrin of those who would like to reduce Catholic...

Wheaton College is stirring up an old debate this week that's worth revisiting. Professor Larycia Hawkins, in an effort to show solidarity with Muslims, decided to wear a hijab during advent. While wearing a hijab may have been tolerated by the school, what she said about the relationship between Islam and Christianity, was not. She wrote: "I stand in religious solidarity with Muslims because they, like me, a Christian, are people of the book. And as Pope Francis stated last week, we worship the same God." For the crime of saying, "we worship the same God" Hawkins was suspended from...

Have you heard that Islam is a peaceful religion because most Muslims live peacefully and only a "tiny minority of extremists" practice violence?  That's like saying that White supremacy must be perfectly fine since only a tiny minority of racists hurt anyone.  Neither does it explain why religious violence is largely endemic to Islam, despite the tremendous persecution of religious minorities in Muslim countries. In truth, even a tiny minority of "1%" of Muslims worldwide translates to 15 million believers - which is hardly an insignificant number.  However, the "minority" of Muslims who approve of terrorists, their goals, or their...

Statistics about Radicalization of Islamic Residents and other Muslims 1.       Studies have been done showing that in 8 out 10 US Mosques jihad messages have been preached. Messages stating the listeners should go from listening to the message and go kill an American infidel with a knife or a gun. 2.       From 5 to 25 percent of US Muslims are radicalized. 3.       According to Pew Research 1 in 10 native-born Muslim-Americans have a favorable view of al-Qaeda. 4.       About 1 in 5 British Muslim students would not report a fellow Muslim planning a terror attack. 5.       25% of Muslims...

"Muhammad taught "love not hate," and "peace not violence."One-by-one one have all Muslims voluntarily and peacefully walk up to and stand on a podiuium, talk into a microphone so the whole frickin' world can hear and say it. If you want to be taken at your word that you belong in Ameria like everyoe else, then just express your good will ... ONCE ... so everyone can hear it.

It's not just the absence of presidential leadership. It's the fact that a whole group of people from the presidential administration to the press corps of the United States is entirely silent about the malfeasance of the president. Why isn't, he, the president talking about terror in San Bernardino? Why isn't the President taking a leadership role in helping the citizens of the United States deal with this horrific terrorist event? Why aren't the members of Obama's administration reacting in a way that shows concern about the terrorism and about the commander-in-chief's apparent lack of concern in that he is...

Last Thursday I heard Attorney General Loretta Lynch say regarding the San Bernardino assault, "Violence like this has no place in this country. This is not what we stand for, this is not what we do." These words so trivialized concern about terrorism they made me sick. Actually, considering the magnitude of what had happened, her words struck me as lacking human compassion - almost as if she were not even paying attention. Since then, despite the growing awareness of the significance of this terrorist attack in the United States the President has been conspicuously aloof. The terrorist attack in...

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Islamic clerics are expressing outrage following comments made by Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad that deceased Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez will come back to earth at the return of Jesus Christ. Chavez, a Roman Catholic, passed away on Tuesday following a two-year battle with cancer. “Give me Your crown, Jesus. Give me Your cross, Your thorns so that I may bleed,” he said in a tearful public message last year as he clutched a Catholic crucifix. “But give me life, because I have more to do for this country and these people. Do not take me yet.” After what appeared to...

Last Friday, the LDS church announced a newly released digital edition of the LDS canon, which includes "adjustments" (as they call them). Many have called the changes a bomb detonated to revise history, especially on troubling issues such as racism and polygamy. The reason for the changes? The first paragraph of official discussion on the "adjustments" says this: "The current printing masters of the 1979 edition of the King James Version of the Bible and the 1981 edition of the Book of Mormon, Doctrine and Covenants, and Pearl of Great Price have deteriorated because of age and long use. The...

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Most television will be streamed over the Internet in the coming years, said Anthony Wood, CEO of Roku, maker of the streaming TV device of the same name. The question is how Internet-delivered content will get to your TV and who will deliver it, Wood told CNBC's Squawk on the Street. Right now, set-top devices like Roku and Apple TV and Internet-enabled Smart TVs are best positioned to take advantage of the sea change, said Wood. "Those are the two ways that most people are going to be watching television that's distributed over the Internet," said Wood. In the set-top...

<p>SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - Mormons are free to down a Coke or Pepsi.</p> <p>The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has clarified its position on caffeinated soft drinks, noting the news media often incorrectly states that its members don't drink caffeine.</p>

NORTH CAROLINA (BASN)--Black and Mormon, now that's an oxymoron. Shockingly, however, the number one recruit in high school basketball, who some consider the "next Lebron James," is a 6'9 practicing Mormon named Jabari Parker from Chicago, Illinois. How a Black person could be a Mormon in 2012 is simply idiotic, especially with the churches racist past? Without question, Parker, who is of Tongan and African American descent, has definitely been "brainwashed” to believe that "THE WHITE JESUS CHRIST" visited North America" and that Joseph Smith is some type of divine prophet. This is classic example of why Black people, according...

<p>In recent decades the Republican Party has made a person’s religious beliefs an issue for election to political office, despite the First Amendment to the Constitution explicitly forbidding this [bullshit misstatement of the 1st amendment].</p> <p>For the Republicans, that requirement is a person must be a Christian. Mitt Romney has chosen staunch Roman Catholic Paul Ryan as his running mate. That should help divert some of the concern about Romney himself being a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints — a Mormon.</p>

Mitt Romney's choice of Paul Ryan as his vice presidential candidate makes 2012 the first time in American history that a major party has run a ticket without a Protestant on it. Romney is a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and Ryan is a Roman Catholic. Have Mormons and Catholics always gotten along as well as the Republican running mates appear to? No. The root of the conflict is doctrinal. The premise of the Book of Mormon is that the Bible is a corrupt and incomplete account of God's revelation — an implicit criticism of...

The moral relativism of the “lesser of two evils” philosophy has been draining the heart and soul of America for decades. Many of us in the Liberty Movement understand that it is nothing new, and have come to expect the abusive and emaciated logic it entails from time to time. However, over the course of the past year it has become apparent to me that the talking points and propaganda that drive the hypocritical worldview are being utilized on an even grander scale than ever before. This fact struck me quite sharply while attending a local GOP Lincoln/Reagan dinner event...