Church News (Page 4)
Pope Francis Keeps Making Headlines
It seems to me that Pope Francis has been in the news more often in the past month than any pope has been in recent memory. You see, he is regularly speaking out about his beliefs, beliefs which push against the traditional stance of the Catholic church for centuries. At first, I found his comments to be refreshing, pointing in the right direction. In one interview, he spoke about how he wanted the church to be more focused on what…
Helping When it Hurts (or Itches)
A couple weeks ago I went out with a team of 8 people to cut down weeds at a woman’s house for our Summer of Love project. The owner told me she knew she had some poison ivy among the weeds but had sprayed it all with weed killer the previous week and killed it all. Our team worked for about an hour cutting down all sorts of weeds, small trees, and even large tree branches for this woman, doing…