...the people in Olive Branch are looking out for what s best for their community. The Memphis -based Baptist health care system, which operates Baptist Memorial Hospital-DeSoto in Southaven, has also opposed the Olive Branch plan in the...

In this article: Kenneth Williams, Methodist, Holly Springs, Memphis, Marshall County, and Baptist

...with the Pope, their first since the Vatican 's surprise announcement of a special institution for traditionalist Anglicans wanting to convert to Catholicism. In his address at the Gregorian University , Dr Williams said the Anglican...

In this article: Anglicans, Rowan Williams, Rome, Catholicism, God, Roman Catholic, Gregorian University, and EU

...at a pontifical university in Rome came a month after Pope Benedict invited alienated Anglicans to join the Catholic Church , a move some Anglicans criticized as a bid to woo away those opposed to women bishops. Several member churches...

In this article: Anglicans, Rowan Williams, Vatican, Roman Catholics, Church of England, Pope Benedict, Rome, Archbishop of Canterbury, Episcopal Church in the United States, and Walter Kasper

Wednesday included a panel discussion of the religions of the world which focused on the major religions: Christianity , Islam , Hinduism , Buddhism and Judaism. "Few people want to go into religion; they say it's too controversial, but we're...

In this article: Maria Echaveste, Mississippi State University, Judaism, IP Address, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, and Buddhism

...counterpart, Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams on Saturday, just two weeks after a Vatican overture to disgruntled Anglicans to convert to Catholicism. The British press has painted Williams ' visit, though scheduled long before the...

In this article: Anglican, Rowan Williams, Catholic Church, Vatican, Catholicism, Church of England, Rome, and Reactionary

...ranged from a few hundred to thousands. The new policy has elicited heated criticism in Britain , both in Anglican and Roman Catholic circles. Catholic theologian Nicholas Lash said it was "disgraceful" that the Vatican devised the policy...

In this article: Anglicans, Vatican, Rome, Rowan Williams, Catholic Church, John Hepworth, Walter Kasper, Pope Benedict XVI, and Catholicism

In this article: Anglicans, Vatican, Rome, Rowan Williams, Catholic Church, John Hepworth, Walter Kasper, Pope Benedict XVI, and Catholicism

The differences between Anglicans and Catholics are not that significant, the Archbishop of Canterbury has insisted in a controversial speech in Rome. By Martin Beckford and Nick Squires Published: 5:18PM GMT 19 Nov 2009 Dr Rowan...

In this article: Anglicans, Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury, Rome, Catholicism, Church of England, Gregorian University, and Pope Benedict XVI

...over sexuality and scripture. Some of you may be following the litigation and infighting in many mainline denominations - Episcopal , Methodist and Presbyterian, among them - over the rights of same-gender couples. As advocates for sexual...

In this article: Africa, Episcopal Church, Christianity, Homophobia, Methodist, Anglican, and Asia

... Evangelical Lutheran Church in America became a real possibility Wednesday with the announcement by dissidents that they will have a new Lutheran denomination ready for launch by August. That marks a speed-up in plans by Lutherans who oppose...

In this article: Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, Lutherans, CORE, Minnesota, Department of Veterans Affairs, Star Tribune, and Gene Robinson

...more conservative Anglican Church in North America , which claims 100,000 members. In addition to helping birth a new Lutheran church body, Lutheran CORE leaders said their organization would continue its recent move toward creating a...

In this article: Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, Lutheran, Episcopal Church, Minneapolis, and New Brighton, Minn.

In this article: Yuri Foreman, Judaism, World Boxing Association, Daniel Santos, New York, Israel, BBC World Service, Dmitriy Salita, and National Museum of American Jewish History

...in patients with epilepsy ," said Dr. David Chiu , medical director of the Eddy Scurlock Stroke Center and the study's primary investigator at Methodist. "We know that stimulating the sphenopalatine ganglion can dilate arteries so that more...

In this article: Methodist, Food and Drug Administration, United States, Brainsgate, Oxygen, Glucose, Epilepsy, and Sugar

...enjoy and honor them all. Vienna , Va. : We both believe in universal religion. Our both kids are exposed to Christianity , Hinduism and Islam. We teach them about all the great Primordial Masters who came in this world. Its time for us to be...

In this article: Catholic Church, God, Washington, D.C., Judaism, and Baptist

...government. Once you do that? Fair game to fall under the laws of the state on determining who is "Jewish enough," " Catholic enough," " Buddhist enough," etc. If you wish to maintain private rules, remain a private institution and do not take...

In this article: Judaism, United Kingdom, Supreme Court, United Synagogue, and David Novak

...on the Roman Catholic Church 's attempts to deal with the implications of extraterrestrial life, mentioned that Eastern religions and Islam have accepted this concept. The great Jewish theologian and philosopher from Spain , Moses...

In this article: Judaism, Islam, Roman Catholic Church, Moses Maimonides, and Spain

...generous than it first seemed. Fr Geoffrey Kirk , the national secretary of Forward in Faith , which represents Anglicans sympathetic to Catholicism , said more clergy would probably convert as a result. "Of the 450 parishes I knew would...

In this article: Anglicans, Roman Catholic Church, Church of England, The Vatican, Rome, Catholicism, Pope, and Rowan Williams

...position in a preface to Pope Benedict 's Apostolic Constitution " Anglicanorum Coetibus " (Groups of Anglicans ) regulating the admission of Anglican converts to Catholicism , including married priests and bishops. "The possibility envisioned by...

In this article: Anglicans, Roman Catholic Church, The Vatican, Catholicism, Forward in Faith, Rome, London, Church of England, and King Henry VIII