Posts Tagged ‘scandal’

Twittering Cardinal tells Priests – “liven up your sermons”

Friday, November 11th, 2011

Spice up your sermons, is the message Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi is giving to priests. Ravasi, President of the Pontifical Council for Culture, said that priests who used theological language that was formulaic and boring risked making the gospel irrelevant. Grey, dull and flavourless sermons need to be livened up with graphic stories and scandal contained within the Bible, Read more

NY’s Archbishop Dolan: new face of the Church?

Tuesday, March 29th, 2011

Archbishop of New York, Timothy Dolan,  said he believed the church’s reaction to the sex scandal was rigorous and strong and he wants to see “zero tolerance for wayward priests”. In a interview on CBS, Dolan said the acts themselves and the decades-long cover-up are hard for him to bear or understand. “In some ways, Read more