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Community and Society - 2008

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100 Reverends apologise to gays and lesbians for the church's lack of welcome

20/02/2008
Baptist pastor Mike Hercock is married with a wife and two kids. His church is a wine-bar in inner-Sydney Surry Hills. And he's marching in this year's gay and lesbian Mardi-Gras Parade- one of 40 Christian ministers apologising for the church's past and present treatment of gay people, and running a real risk of retaliation for doing so.

The Catholic Church and the Jews

20/02/2008
Pope Benedict re-introduced the old Latin Missal - complete with the Good Friday prayer for the conversion of the Jews that was bound to cause offence. Now the prayer has been re-written; but so - it seems - has the Catholic Church's theology on the Jews.

The Anglican Bishop of Jerusalem speaks out

20/02/2008
Bishop Suheil Dawani of Jerusalem speaks out on the Anglican Lambeth meeting

The Bishop of Jerusalem speaks; Catholic Church and the Jews; 100 Reverends apologise to gays and lesbians for the church's lack of welcome

20/02/2008
Baptist pastor Mike Hercock is married with a wife and two kids. His church is a wine-bar in inner-Sydney Surry Hills. And he's marching in this year's gay and lesbian Mardi-Gras Parade- one of 40 Christian ministers apologising for the church's past and present treatment of gay people, and running a real risk of retaliation for doing so. Also, Pope Benedict re-introduced the old Latin Missal - complete with the Good Friday prayer for the conversion of the Jews that was bound to cause offence. Now the prayer has been re-written; but so - it seems - has the Catholic Church's theology on the Jews.