The shortage of priests means it has become harder for people to receive the Sacrament of Reconciliation… and of course Confession times are not always convenient. At Christmas and Easter their can be a long queue. And some desire anonymity. Now there is an innovation to solve all these problems. It is a bit like an ATM, Read more
Faryal Bhatti, a student at the Sir Syed Girls High School in Pakistan Ordnance Factories (POF) colony Havelian, erroneously misspelt a word in an Urdu exam while answering a question on a poem written in praise of the Holy Prophet. The word in question was ‘laanat’ instead of ‘naat’ According to the school administration and Read more
Confession is an application for iPhone™, Android, iPad, and iPod touch® developed for Catholics who frequent the sacrament and those who wish to return. It has a personalized examination of conscience for each user, password protected profiles, and a step-by-step guide to the sacrament. This app invites Catholics to prepare prayerfully for and participate in the Read more
Pope Benedict’s address to the Bundestag during his visit to Germany included a touch of apparently unintended humor. Towards the end of his talk, the Pope praised the environmental movement of the 1970s, saying it has since become self-evident that people must listen to the call of nature. The Green Party immediately erupted in spontaneous Read more
A number of commemorative souvenirs have been produced to mark Pope Benedict XVI’s four-day visit to Germany. One brewery in Berlin has gone as far as creating a special beer in his honor. But a standard brewing process wouldn’t do for the Holy Father. Brewers “ensouled” their creation by playing Gregorian chants with a ghetto Read more
An family have uncovered a bizarre church which has been hidden under their home for 100 years. The Farla family made the discovery while investigating what was under a metre-long rectangle metal grid in their hallway. The hole under the grid was just big enough for son Gareth, 20, to squeeze down and see what Read more
Of all the phenomena to centre around pole dancing, Jesus and gospel music certainly aren’t what you’d expect. But from churches in Texas, to YouTube user MrPhatLips, it seems to be catching on. Click here to watch MrPhatLips Pole Danicing in Texas And there’s more
As part of a new missions push, Discovery Church gave each member of its congregation a bracelet to remind them to pray for the Ecuadoran village they are sponsoring. But the bracelets, handcrafted from jute by the villagers, began smelling and looking repulsive after just days. “People say the foul odour, which is exacerbated by Read more
A small group from Rolling Hills Christian Church arrived at a place of unprecedented honesty with each other last Tuesday when they discovered that nobody in the group actually liked anyone else. “We all realized, ‘You know what? I don’t care for any of you, and I find your kids annoying,’” says one man who Read more
50-year-old Menachem Youlus carried out the fraud from at least 2004 through last year, pocketing hundreds of thousands of dollars through the “Save a Torah” charity he co-founded in 2004 as a nonprofit organisation. It is said he passed off Torahs he bought from US dealers to synagogues and congregations nationwide, sometimes at inflated rates. Authorities Read more