clergy

I just heard 10 minutes ago a short blurb on CNN news that over 10,000 members of the clergy have signed a letter stating that they consider evolution a scientific fact. The full story can be found on CNN.com under the "Education" section: "Scientists enlist clergy in evolution battle"...

Source I heard this from the local NPR station. It isn't mentioned in the article, but the radio blurb had a catholic priest who told a great one-liner (that he credited to Galileo), "Scripture tells us how to go to heaven, not how the heavens go." eta: woot. Here it is.

A big deal in the more liberal religious denominations today is the question of gays being in the clergy. This is mostly Christians and Jews, with a few one-offs such as Unitarians. Some say yes, some are debating it, In some cases tearing their denominations apart. Those who have...

The leadership of the Church of England is between a rock and a hard place. As the flagship of the Anglican Union (of Anglican/Episcopalian denominations), there is a lot of pressure from within, from without and from its fellow Anglicans to make a clear statement on same-sex relations. Most of...

One thing that I observe about the Vatican clergy is the over the top trouble they feel they have to go though in this transvestite tendency to were such expensive frocks. They are more preoccupied with making appointments with the exclusive and elite Vatican tailors than spreading the message...

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=573&ncid=757&e=7&u=/nm/20030620/od_nm/crime_thailand_monk_dc OK, I'm not completely sure that monks are considered 'clergy', but it's not just for Catholics anymore.