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Courtesy of Robert F. Cochran Jr. I am often asked whether I would identify the United States as a “Christian nation.”  I suspect that was the underlying concern when a friend, a 95-year-old World War II veteran, asked if I thought our church should place an American flag along with the Christian flag in our sanctuary.  (He wears an American flag in his lapel; I have one on my license plate.)  I answered his question with stories from teaching law in Vietnam and China.   A Story from Vietnam In preparation for teaching a course on “Religion and Law in th...

Pilot Photo/Gregory L. Tracy Help us expand our reach! Please share this article Cardinal Seán P. O’Malley issued the following letter June 9 on his decision to reinstate the Sunday Mass obligation for most parishioners on Father’s Day weekend, June 19-20. The local dioceses of Fall River, Springfield, Manchester, New Hampshire and Portland, Maine will also join Boston in reinstating the Sunday obligation on that weekend. Brothers and Sisters, “Without the Lord’s day, we cannot live!” His Holiness, Pope Benedict, in his homily at the Cathedral of Saint Stephen in Vienna on Septemb...

THERE is a thin line between religion and politics and this is so simply because of the numbers of people that both deal with. Politics is a game of numbers and a politician who gets more numbers gets to rule and it is no wonder politicians run to churches especially when heading into an election. The numbers of people that churches have is a perfect ground for campaigns. Church gatherings providing a rich platform to campaign and politicians are unfortunately using this trick with the guise of going to worship. But the truth, according to the Bible, is that religion, Christianity in this cas...

To the editor: The Trumpublicans, aka the Republican Party, at one time told us Sarah Palin was presidential material. To them she was known as one of true faith and conviction, a darling of the conservative Christian movement. Apparently her “faith” wasn’t strong enough to protect her or her son, and both got COVID-19. “My case is perhaps one of those that proves anyone can catch this.” She urged Americans to wear masks. “It’s better than doing nothing to slow the spread.” This serves as a good example of the shallowness, hypocrisy, and diminishment of a religion. “F...

Bahamian false prophets are running amok on Facebook Dear Editor, The legendary Dr. Myles Munroe was a trailblazer in Christian broadcasting in The Bahamas, having learned at the feet of American Pentecostal faith healer and televangelist Oral Roberts. Munroe attended ORU in Oklahoma in the 1970s. Many of the contemporary features we often take for granted in today’s charismatic churches were first introduced by Munroe, when he founded Bahamas Faith Ministries (BFM) in the early 1980s. Bahamian traditionalists wrongly labeled BFM a cult, due to its dance ministry and other contemporary feat...