It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s Super Jesus! Check out Igor Scalisi Palminteri's statues of Christ and the Christian saints decked out in superhero garb.
Now, the grown-up religion news.
The Supreme Court will not hear the case of the Christian candy canes, in which a lower court ruled that Dallas-area public school principals have immunity from liability for stopping kids from handing out the candy, which included a Christian message. That lower court also ruled that the principals may have gone too far in suppressing the candy-givers rights of religious expression.
A little lower down on the judicial feeding chain, a Massachusetts judge has found that the rights of an atheist couple and their children are not being violated because the children's school recites the Pledge of Allegiance with the “under God.”
Nearly 150 religious leaders sent a letter to Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius to protest her department's concept of two classes of religious organizations: houses of worship on the one hand and faith-based organizations on the other. The latter should be according the same exemptions as the former, they write, on such matters as the soon-to-be requirement that employers provide coverage for contraception.
Today members of the Leadership Conference of Women's Religious meet with Vatican doctrinal officials, the ones who found fault with their “radical feminist” ideas. The Vatican said it's aiming for some “mutual understanding.”
The Associated Press shows that the roots of the American nuns vs. Vatican kerfuffle go back . . . way back.
Are Mormons primed for persecution this election season? So asks the Salt Lake Tribune.
The Church of England and Roman Catholic bishops in England and Wales are formally protesting British Prime Minister David Cameron's plan to allow same-sex marriages, an idea rejected by some members of his own Conservative Party.
Reject the “glamour of Satan,” the Pope told members of the Diocese of Rome for its annual ecclesial conference.
The Hebrew graffiti on Yad Vashem, the Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem, reads “If Hitler Hadn't Existed, the Zionists Would Have Invented Him.” There's more, but the message, and the signature “World Ultra-Orthodox Jewry,” points to perpetrators within the community of Orthodox Jews who believe that the nation of Israel should not be reconstituted before the arrival of the Messiah.
– Lauren Markoe
