BELIEF BLOG

Only at The Washington Times: Julia Duin blogs on religion.

• U.S. Catholic bishops asked to foot bill for Vatican probe of nuns

  By Julia Duin — Published September 30, 2009 Comments

  A three-year study of female religious congregations in the United States is costing $1.1 million, and Rome is asking the U.S. bishops to foot the bill.

• Anglican Bishop Minns tells Lutherans to leave

  By Julia Duin — Published September 25, 2009 Comments

  The Rt. Rev. Martyn Minns, a bishop of the Episcopal/Anglican breakaway group CANA, has a message for the Lutheran CORE conferernce

• Conservative Lutherans overflow upcoming conference

  By Julia Duin — Published September 23, 2009 Comments

  Conservative Lutherans are meeting in a Catholic church this weekend to strategize their exit strategy from the ELCA.

• Local Episcopal priest elected Georgia bishop

  By Julia Duin — Published September 12, 2009 Comments

  Scott Benhase of St. Alban's Episcopal Church in the District was just elected the new Episcopal bishop of Georgia

• Muslim prayers to surround U.S. Capitol

  By Julia Duin — Published September 3, 2009 Comments

  A mass Islamic prayer event is slated for Sept. 25 that will turn the area around the Capitol into a gigantic mosque.

• Guest list for White House Ramadan reception

  By Julia Duin — Published September 2, 2009 Comments

  Here is who attended President Obama's "iftar" dinner Tuesday night plus what the president actually said. 

• Gay Lutherans celebrate

  By Julia Duin — Published August 21, 2009 Comments

  Conservatives were in mourning Friday night but it was party time for homosexuals in America's largest Lutheran denomination

• Lutherans vote yes on gay 'relationships'

  By Julia Duin — Published August 21, 2009 Comments

  This just in: the ELCA just approved the first of four controversial resolutions to "recognize, support and hold publicly accountable" same-sex relationships

• The Lutherans and the tornado

  By Julia Duin — Published August 19, 2009 Comments

  The biennial meeting of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America came within a block of being hit by a tornado Wednesday afternoon in Minneapolis.

• Episcopalians race to elect a gay bishop

  By Julia Duin — Published August 3, 2009 Comments

   Two Episcopal dioceses are vying for which one gets to elect the denomination's second openly gay bishop.  

• Miguel Diaz and the Vatican

  By Julia Duin — Published July 22, 2009 Comments

  The Obama administration's proposed ambassador to the Vatican, Miguel Diaz, has a way of avoiding the media. Why?

• Episcopal juggernaut

  By Julia Duin — Published July 15, 2009 Comments

  Hoping for multiple victories at General Convention, the gay Episcopal caucus Integrity publishes a graphic novel that swipes at Truro Church in Fairfax

• Voice of the Faithful is going bankrupt

  By Julia Duin — Published July 14, 2009 Comments

  A lay-led Catholic organization announces it may shutter its headquarters by July 31 unless it gets $60,000

• What the pope gave Obama

  By Julia Duin — Published July 13, 2009 Comments

  What the media missed during Obama's Vatican visit was the small green book the pontiff handed him.

• Eight questions for the archbishop

  By Julia Duin — Published July 12, 2009 Comments

  America's newest archbishop, J. Augustine "Gus" Di Noia was consecrated today and we have a few questions for him on his new Oregon see.