At this Church the Christian faith is presented by bikers, for bikers, a unique amalgam of Christ, chrome and outreach to outcasts. Besides the Sunday service, there is a Wednesday night “pit stop” Bible study and the weekly “Ironhead Teens Group.” Read more
It started out with an inside joke. My spouse and I, with our advanced education in theology and religious studies, discovered that if you replaced “God” with “Dog” in a lot of Bible verses, they became startlingly apt commentary on our lives with our own newly adopted dog. Strangely, the more we found ourselves searching Read more
An Irish nun and a policeman have emerged as unlikely sporting stars, after a video of the pair kicking a football in their respective uniforms went viral. The video shows a police officer identified as Garda O’Connell playing “keepy-uppy” with an unnamed nun from the Dominican order in the city of Limerick in southwest Ireland. Have Read more
In the weeks before Easter the Church of the Resurrection, an Anglican Church in Wheaton, Illinois, had a graphic to illustrate how the different personalities of patron saints correspond with Myers-Briggs personality types. They said the beauty of Holy Week is that with so many different services, there are opportunities for all of these expressions Read more
In a recent speech Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg shared a Jewish prayer called the “Mi Shebeirach,” which he said he recites whenever he faces a big challenge and which he sings to his daughter, thinking of her future, when he tucks her in at night. Zuckerberg identified himself as an atheist for years, but on Facebook Read more
As the “Greatest Show on Earth” comes to a close, performers worship together in a special Mass The Rev. Jerry Hogan, of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Circus and Traveling Shows Ministry, wore vestments, made by the costume department from old elephant blankets and decorated with sequined clown faces, crosses and animal prints. Read Read more
Astronaut Mike Hopkins spent six months on the International Space Station (ISS) in 2013. He took with him a pyx with six consecrated hosts broken into four pieces. It was enough so that he could take Communion once a week for the 24 weeks he was aboard the ISS. Continue reading
Pittsburgh Bishop Zubik received hate mail for allowing Catholics to eat meat on St. Patrick’s Day “You can’t believe the hate mail I got over that. ‘You’re sending us to hell. Who do you think you are to be able to tell us we can eat meat.’” “I mean, it’s over something as simple as Read more
After malware hacked as many as 200,000 computers throughout the world, the Russians have an idea: blessing the computers with holy water. In a photo shared by @EnglishRussia1 on Twitter, Patriarch Kirill can be seen blessing the computers of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in hopes to protect them from the WannaCry virus. Read more
Some people are offended when pop music is played in the liturgy. But how good are you at telling the difference between pop song lyrics and theological gems? Take the test