Archivo etiqueta «Cristianismo»
By Eric Lax, the author of the forthcoming Faith, Interrupted: A Spiritual Journey (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 08/02/10):
The election, two months ago, of the Rev. Mary Glasspool, a priest who has been in a committed relationship with another woman for more than 20 years, as a suffragan (assistant) bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles, has brought added turmoil to the Episcopal Church in the United States and to the worldwide Anglican Communion. There has been sporadic schism since the regular ordination of women as priests in 1977 and especially since the election of the Rev. Gene Robinson… Seguir leyendo
Por Olegario González de Cardedal (ABC, 09/08/09):
El calor creciente del verano y la inminencia de las vacaciones han impedido a la Prensa española oír la voz de la muerte llegando en Oxford al filósofo polaco Lezek Kolakowski. Pensador riguroso y crítico, rompió con el marxismo por defender la libertad, pagó su independencia con la expulsión de su cátedra junto con el exilio en Occidente, permaneciendo hasta el final abierto a la dimensión religiosa de la existencia y a las preguntas que propone la fe a la vez que a sus respuestas, fiel al pensar inquisitivo y simbólico frente a… Seguir leyendo
By Matthew Parris (THE TIMES, 27/12/08):
Before Christmas I returned, after 45 years, to the country that as a boy I knew as Nyasaland. Today it’s Malawi, and The Times Christmas Appeal includes a small British charity working there. Pump Aid helps rural communities to install a simple pump, letting people keep their village wells sealed and clean. I went to see this work.
It inspired me, renewing my flagging faith in development charities. But travelling in Malawi refreshed another belief, too: one I’ve been trying to banish all my life, but an observation I’ve been unable to avoid since… Seguir leyendo
By Kenneth C. Davis, the author of America’s Hidden History: Untold Tales of the First Pilgrims, Fighting Women and Forgotten Founders Who Shaped a Nation (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 26/11/08):
To commemorate the arrival of the first pilgrims to America’s shores, a June date would be far more appropriate, accompanied perhaps by coq au vin and a nice Bordeaux. After all, the first European arrivals seeking religious freedom in the “New World” were French. And they beat their English counterparts by 50 years. That French settlers bested the Mayflower Pilgrims may surprise Americans raised on our foundational myth, but the… Seguir leyendo
Por Félix de Azúa, escritor (EL PERIÓDICO, 24/09/08):
Los actuales escolares serán, quizá, los primeros niños españoles para quienes el signo de la cruz ya no sonará como el bajo continuo de todo lo visible. Desde el siglo octavo y hasta hace unos decenios, la cruz ha sido el signo más repetido, más presente en el espacio y en el tiempo de los españoles. También en otros lugares, en los extintos estados vaticanos particularmente, pero sin la fiera intensidad con que entre nosotros se imponía, como si fuera la firma al pie de un permiso de vida. En España la… Seguir leyendo
By Robin Harris, a consultant director of Politeia and a former prime ministerial adviser to Margaret Thatcher (THE TIMES, 04/07/08):
When American and British-led forces invaded Iraq in 2003, neither George Bush nor Tony Blair, devout Christians both, can have imagined that one consequence of their action would be the extinction of Christianity in a land where it had survived for nearly 2,000 years.
Since Saddam Hussein’s fall, perhaps half of Iraq’s 800,000 Christians have fled the country. About half the rest are internally displaced persons. There is no mystery why. Last summer, the traditionally Christian Dora suburb of Baghdad… Seguir leyendo
By John Bryson Chane, Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Washington DC, and a member of the Chicago Consultation, which works towards the full inclusion of gays and lesbians in the Anglican church (THE GUARDIAN, 26/06/08):
Archbishop Rowan Williams has tried to take the issue of gay marriage off the table at the Lambeth Conference, which begins in three weeks. But the celebration of a gay relationship at one of London’s oldest churches last month, and the well-publicised gathering of anti-gay Anglicans in Jerusalem this week, suggest the controversy must eventually be faced squarely.
Conservative Christians say opening marriage to… Seguir leyendo
By Stephen Bates, the author of God’s Own Country: Power and the Religious Right in the USA (THE GUARDIAN, 24/06/08):
Maybe it’s being in a company of saints – a most un-Anglican communion of the like-minded. But the rhetoric of the gathering of conservative churchmen in Jerusalem seeking to wrest control of worldwide Anglicanism from the woolly nuances of Dr Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury, and the wicked, gay-friendly liberalism of the Church of England and US Episcopal Church is already spiralling upwards on a vicious current of hot air.
Two days into the great realignment, we’ve already had… Seguir leyendo
By Cormac Murphy-O’Connor, the Archbishop of Westminster (THE GUARDIAN, 24/03/08):
Two months ago I was in Zimbabwe, to see for myself the desperate situation of so many people and to offer my support and solidarity. It was a deeply moving experience. Many of those living with HIV/Aids are now too malnourished to take the drugs they need, though they have them. I asked Sister Margaret McAllen, director of an Aids programme in Harare, what she could do. She replied: “How can we give hope to people in such a desperate situation? Through love. Change comes through love.” Sister Margaret may… Seguir leyendo
By Giles Fraser, the vicar of Putney (THE GUARDIAN, 22/03/08):
Somewhere in the Middle East, Jesus Christ is strapped to a bench, his head wrapped in clingfilm. He furiously sucks against the plastic. A hole is pierced, but only so that a filthy rag can be stuffed back into his mouth. He is turned upside down and water slowly poured into the rag. The torturer whispers religious abuse. If you are God, save yourself you fucking idiot. Fighting to pull in oxygen through the increasingly saturated rag, his lungs start to fill up with water. Someone punches him in the… Seguir leyendo
By Gerard Baker (THE TIMES, 21/12/07):
Nothing better measures the retreat of religion in our postmodern society than the diminished intensity of the war over Christmas.
This fight — waged for decades by a dwindling band of religious insurgents against a prevailing secularist consensus — used to be fought with a real passion. People actually once got quite upset about saucy Christmas cards or television schedules that omitted even a hint of religion between the comedy classics and the game shows.
Now it just amounts to a few feeble skirmishes, a couple of barmy Christians railing outside the… Seguir leyendo
By Nina Shea, director of the Hudson Institute’s Center for Religious Freedom and a commissioner on the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, an independent government agency (THE WASHINGTON POST, 27/08/07):
Recent bombings in Iraq’s Kurdish area nearly annihilated two Yazidi villages, killing hundreds of this ancient angel-revering, Indo-European religious group. The single deadliest atrocity of the Iraq conflict, it was also the latest demonstration that Iraq’s non-Muslims are in danger of extinction.
Sixty years ago, Iraq’s flourishing Jewish population, a third of Baghdad, fled in the wake of coordinated bombings and violence against them. Today, a handful of Jews… Seguir leyendo
By Suki Kim, a 2006 Guggenheim fellow, is the author of the novel “The Interpreter” (THE WASHINGTON POST, 25/07/07):
The Taliban’s abduction of 23 South Korean Christian missionaries in Afghanistan last Thursday has put South Korea’s evangelical fervor under a microscope. Despite its long-standing shamanist, Buddhist and Confucian roots, South Korea has about 12,000 missionaries in 173 countries, second only to the United States. Today, almost half of South Korea’s population is Christian. I remember looking through the window of our fifth-floor apartment in Seoul as a child and finding the night sky peppered with bright-red neon crosses. When I… Seguir leyendo
Por Carlo Maria Martini, arzobispo emérito de Milán (EL MUNDO, 30/05/07):
La publicación en Italia del esperado primer libro de Benedicto XVI ha tenido una acogida muy cálida. Se trata de una obra muy especial, tanto por el tema abordado (la figura de Jesús de Nazaret) como por tratarse del primer volumen del Papa tras su elección. En este artículo intentaré responder a cinco preguntas sobre esta obra, desde una perspectiva completamente personal: quién es el autor de este libro, cuál es el argumento del que habla, cuáles son sus fuentes, cuál es su método y qué juicio me merece.… Seguir leyendo
By Giles Fraser, the vicar of Putney and a lecturer in philosophy at Wadham College, Oxford (THE GUARDIAN, 07/04/07):
Jesus wasn’t a Christian. He was a Jew. The word Christian wasn’t known until years after his death. Which means that in order to appreciate Easter in its own terms, we must think of it as Jewish. The whole purpose for which Jesus went up to Jerusalem was to celebrate the festival of Passover. The last supper was a Passover meal. And it’s the symbolism of that meal that Christians must return to in order to understand the meaning of the… Seguir leyendo