NASA has banned the word “Jesus” from a space centre newsletter. A group of Christian employees at the Johnson Space Center in Houston included the phrase “Jesus is our life” in an advert for their weekly meeting. This was in a newsletter emailed to all employees at the centre. NASA lawyers informed the Christian club Read more
Posts Tagged ‘Jesus’
Exercising our religious imagination this Christmas
Friday, December 18th, 2015
The Nativity scene is what comes to mind for many of us when we think about Christmas. There is the manger with Mary kneeling by the infant Jesus with Joseph by her side. Often there are shepherds and a few sheep as well as some angels hovering in the sky. When St. Francis of Assisi Read more
CDF head says Church shouldn’t reflect members’ views
Friday, November 20th, 2015
The Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith has said the work of the Church is not to reflect the opinions of its members. “The Church’s job is to reflect the point of view of her head and founder: Jesus Christ,” Cardinal Gerhard Müller said in Chile earlier this month. The cardinal Read more
Church takes down ‘Jesus had 2 dads’ sign
Tuesday, November 17th, 2015A controversial sign that appeared outside a US Catholic church has been removed following complaints that it promoted same-sex marriage. St Columbia-Brigid Roman Catholic Church in Buffalo, New York, put up the sign earlier this month with the message, “Jesus had 2 dads and he turned out just fine”. Fr Roy Herberger, pastor of the Read more
Priest smashes statue of Jesus in church, blames stress
Friday, November 13th, 2015A priest in France who smashed a statue of Jesus in his church has attributed his action to the stress and fatigue of his job. Fr Jean-Jacques Le Roy, 55, a priest in Plestin-les-Greves in Brittany, shouted out “one less” as he threw the statue to the ground last Thursday during a visit by a sacred art Read more
Jesus was a refugee
Friday, October 9th, 2015
My wife, Nay, fled the Khmer Rouge 35 years ago when she was a little girl. Her father had already been killed by the murderous regime there, and her young mother managed to escape with two young children in tow through the Cambodian jungle. They cheated death with every step as they avoided landmines and Read more
Why do youth turn their back on Jesus? Is the Church keeping him hidden?
Friday, October 2nd, 2015
Why do so many young people leave the church after confirmation, Pope Francis asked bishops from Portugal. “There is no doubt that Jesus exists; but where are we hiding him?” the pope said. What is required is “a personal and pastoral conversion of pastors and faithful so that everyone can say truthfully and joyfully: ‘The Read more
The everywhere of Jesus
Tuesday, September 29th, 2015
Some of the people who convert to Catholicism, come from other Christian traditions. Others are simply hi-jacked by God. I’m privileged to share a story of the latter kind, the experience of a young woman who had never had any interest in religion. Her passion was architecture, and she was in Rome with a camera, Read more
Truck Driver claims Jesus was riding beside him
Friday, May 29th, 2015A Rio Grande Valley, Texas, truck driver, Ramiro Olivarez, got the sack for claiming Jesus was his co-driver. Every truck driver on any road in the United States is required by law to keep a logbook. Olivarez said nothing in the logbook is false. “Jesus is my co-driver, and I have no shame in that,” Read more
What did Jesus look like as a boy?
Tuesday, May 26th, 2015Using the Turin Shroud, the supposed burial cloth of Jesus, Italian police investigators have generated a photo-fit image from the negative facial image on the material. And from this they reversed the ageing process to create an image of a young Jesus, by reducing the size of the jaw, raising the chin and straightening the Read more