Battle within the Diocese

Matt Kennedy“A congregation on Binghamton’s southside will remain in its church, for now.

The Church of the Good Shepherd broke free when the Diocese of Central New York decided to embrace homosexuality.

Action News reporter Erik Burling was in court as both sides made their case to claim the church…”

– from WBNG News, New York. See also this earlier post.

Religion in schools to go God-free

noVictorian state primary school students will soon have an alternative — religious education lessons taught by people who do not believe in God and say there is “no evidence of any supernatural power”.

The Humanist Society of Victoria has developed a curriculum, which the State Government accreditation body says it intends to approve, to deliver 30-minute lessons each week of “humanist applied ethics” to primary pupils. …

The Age.

Britain heading for a “massacre of carols” this Christmas

carolsTraditional Christmas carols are being wrecked by politically correct vicars who are altering well-known words because they think their congregations will not understand them or will find them offensive.…

– Ruth Gledhill writes at Times Online. (Photo: Times Online.)