Icelanders will soon be able to publicly worship at a shrine to Thor, Odin and Frigg with construction starting this month on the island’s first major temple to the Norse gods since the Viking age.
Worship of the gods in Scandinavia gave way to Christianity around 1,000 years ago but a modern version of Norse paganism has been gaining popularity in Iceland. MORE
Separatist rockets streaked across hills in eastern Ukraine on Monday as rebels pounded the positions of Ukrainian government troops holding a strategic rail town while both sides pressed ahead with mobilizing more forces for combat.
Kiev’s military said five more Ukrainian soldiers were killed in clashes while municipal authorities in the big rebel-controlled city of Donetsk said 15 civilians were killed at the weekend by shelling in a surge of violence following the collapse of a new peace effort on Saturday. MORE
Question ‘strikes a chord?’ children sexual abuse cases?
Interesting that Francis doesn’t even defend God or the solution is God through prayer!
“She is the only one who has put a question for which there is no answer and she wasn’t even able to express it in words but in tears,” he told the crowd. “The nucleus of your question … almost doesn’t have a reply.”MORE
Arguably the most powerful laywoman in the Catholic Church in the late 20th century is now a candidate for sainthood, after the launch of a beatification process on Tuesday in Italy followed by 18,000 people around the world via live streaming.
Chiara Lubich, founder of the Focolare movement, died in 2008 at the age of 88. The bid to declare her a saint comes shortly after a mandatory five-year waiting period in Church law to open a beatification process expired. MORE
The Rev. Libby Lane became the eighth Bishop of Stockport in a service at York Minster. Her consecration comes after the church ended a long and divisive dispute by voting last year to allow women to serve as bishops. MORE
Before Original Sin
Vol 8 Issue 5 ~ Editor: Rev. Fr. Courtney Edward Krier
January 31, 2015 ~ St. John Bosco, opn!
1. Baptism: Means of Salvation (4)
2. Septuagesima Sunday
3. St Ignatius of Antioch
4 .Marriage and Parenthood (5)
5. Articles and notices Continue reading