The Search for Homegrown Priests
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As seminary enrollment has sagged, Chicago's Catholic Church is trying to recruit priests who reflect the diversity of their flock
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In life, Neal and Jean Evans were very close to their parish priest. In death, less than 20 feet of gently sloping grass separated their graves from his in the Roman Catholic section of Forest Lawn cemetery, just outside of Asheville, N.C.
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ROMAN Catholics who cannot find the time to pray can phone a new call centre where someone will do it for them.   Manned by a team of 200 volunteers on a rota basis the "call centre of the faithful" is staffed from 9am until 11pm. And at night there is an answer machine.
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They are working to repair an image tattered by homegrown radicals - and to find a place in mainstream society.
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By Lois K. Solomon, South Florida Sun-Sentinel  Feb. 17--South Florida clergy are turning to technology to broaden their audiences, putting cyber-sermons and virtual religious lessons alongside the blooper reels and video blogs on YouTube.
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Nearly three decades after Washington area faith leaders founded a movement for affordable housing, there is a new push -- particularly in the District -- to revive the effort and get the clergy to see housing as an urgent mission field.
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By Katharine Dale, The Charlotte Observer, N.C.  Jun. 17--The message was clear. Many 20- and 30-somethings across Charlotte feel disconnected from their churches. Even more aren't tapped into a local faith community, but are searching.
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Berlin (IANS) Many foreign hands are blessing congregations in Germany. As fewer and fewer German men and women take on work in the nation s churches, pastoral duties are falling on foreign priests - some of ...
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The leafletting outside St. Matthew Catholic Church started well on a recent Sunday, with some parishioners accepting the brochures about clergy abuse being handed out by people who said they were abused by priests.
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Two researchers are following the footsteps of the religious patriarch in the hope that people will rediscover their common roots.
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Returning families bring signs of revival to the ancient heartland of the Syriac Orthodox church in Turkey, reports Sarah Rainsford.
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As the Roman Catholic Church struggles to repair its image in the wake of sex abuse scandals, one issue church leaders face is what to do with priests accused of abuse.
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A monk's life is still a simple one  of prayer and austerity, yet many monasteries have moved online  for business, communication and even headhunting purposes.
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For a growing number of churches, the boundary between sacred space and marketplace is coming down.
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By David Yonke, The Blade, Toledo, Ohio  Jun. 16--LAKESIDE, Ohio -- When the Rev. Adam Hamilton decided to preach a series of sermons on world religions, the first thing he did was his homework.
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Editor&#39;s note: This sidebar article was intended to run with yesterday&#39;s Monitor story previewing today&#39;s release of an Episcopal Church report.
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With a religiously mixed population, aid efforts have meant reaching out across faith barriers.