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One of the treasures lost to the California fires was a Benedictine monastery. And the New York Times this morning sizes up the aftermath: On Tuesday the monks met with their insurance agent. Like thousands of other residents of Southern California, the seven Benedictine Anglican monks who lived at Mount Calvary Monastery and Retreat House,…

The tough economic times are taking a toll — and churches and synagogues are facing challenges of their own, just trying to offer support. From the New Jersey Star-Ledger: Rabbi Benjamin Adler hasn’t felt particularly helpful lately. Older couples have been talking to him about their vanishing retirement accounts because of the recent havoc in…

You may recall last week’s story about a woman who charged that she was ordered to leave church over the Obama signs on her car. Now the priest at the center of the storm has two words to add: I’m sorry. From the Times Herald paper in California: A Roman Catholic priest who allegedly chased…

Archeologists have discovered evidence that at least one ancient culture, hundreds of years before Christ, believed in the separation of the body and the soul. From the New York Times: In a mountainous kingdom in what is now southeastern Turkey, there lived in the eighth century B.C. a royal official, Kuttamuwa, who oversaw the completion…
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