Churches seek priests via unusual recruiting across U S
In Boston Cardinal Law invites weekend talks with potential candidates at St Johns Seminary. Milwaukee uses billboards promising the Worlds Greatest Boss while Providence airs ads seeking MTV fans to hear a calling. Facing clergy shortages, Catholic leaders promote personal contact, retreats, and speaking engagements to attract seminary candidates amid pedophile scandals and aging clergy.
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Boston
Bernard Law
Milwaukee
Providence
R.L
MTV
Law
St. John’s Seminary
Brighton
John Walsh
Archdiocese
Baltimore
Mass United Methodist blessing vows same sex wedding in Sacramento
In Sacramento a mass same sex wedding blessed by over 90 United Methodist ministers unfolds as a civil rights protest. Elllie Charlton and Jeanne Barnett pledge love while clergy chant a blessing amid counter protests and looming church discipline. The event underscores a church dispute over homosexual unions within the nation’s second largest Protestant body.
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Sacramento
Calif
United Methodist
Ellie Charlton
Jeanne Barnett
Jeanne
Ellie
Donald Fade
St. Mark's United Methodist Church
Fade
Sacramento Convention Center
Chariton
Fred Phelps
Topeka
Kan
United Methodist Church
America
Southern Baptist Convention
General Conference
Methodists
Book of Discipline
Jimmy Creech
Omaha
Neb
Creech
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