http://www.miamiherald.com/living/religion-values/index.html http://media.miamiherald.com/images/logos/rss_sitelogo.gif http://www.miamiherald.com/living/religion-values/index.html 140 25 News, sports and entertainment from MiamiHerald.com en-us Copyright 2009 MiamiHerald.com Religion & Values 60 Sun, 22 Nov 2009 01:03:16 EST http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss McClatchy Interactive's PubSys miamifeedback@miamiherald.com http://www.miamiherald.com/living/religion-values/story/1344103.html http://www.miamiherald.com/living/religion-values/story/1344103.html Sun, 22 Nov 2009 01:00 EST One of the gems of the Vatican's priceless religious art collection -- a 6th century reliquary containing purported fragments of the cross on which Jesus was crucified -- has been restored to its Byzantine-era glory. http://www.miamiherald.com/living/religion-values/story/1343337.html http://www.miamiherald.com/living/religion-values/story/1343337.html Fri, 20 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Deep in the heart of Vatican City, Cuban-born Roman Catholic theologian Miguel H. Díaz has managed to find an Italian version of a sandwich that reminds him of home: pan con lechón. http://www.miamiherald.com/living/religion-values/story/1300088.html http://www.miamiherald.com/living/religion-values/story/1300088.html Mon, 26 Oct 2009 01:00 EDT There's no shortage of film festivals in Miami: Colombian, Black, Brazilian, and Gay and Lesbian, to name a few.<p/> This week, a trio of young Miamians will bring something different to the region's big-screen scene: a religious, interfaith film festival modeled after the life of a popular pope. The John Paul II International Film Festival, which kicks off Thursday and runs through Nov. 7, includes films varying from God in the Streets of NYC, a short on Jesus on the streets of New York City, and God in China, a documentary on religion and politics among the Chinese, to The 13th Day, a feature on the memoirs of a 20th-century Portuguese nun. http://www.miamiherald.com/living/religion-values/story/1290029.html http://www.miamiherald.com/living/religion-values/story/1290029.html Tue, 20 Oct 2009 01:00 EDT As a lifestyles columnist for The Wall Street Journal, Jeffrey Zaslow chronicles the business of living itself in ''Moving On,'' a column about transitions. http://www.miamiherald.com/living/religion-values/story/1285202.html http://www.miamiherald.com/living/religion-values/story/1285202.html Fri, 16 Oct 2009 01:00 EDT A South Florida priest has found a higher calling -- as bishop to the diocese of Pueblo, Colo.<p/> The Rev. Fernando Isern, pastor of Our Lady of Lourdes parish in Southwest Miami-Dade, was named bishop-elect by Pope Benedict XVI, and will be ordained in his new assignment in December. http://www.miamiherald.com/living/religion-values/story/1262721.html http://www.miamiherald.com/living/religion-values/story/1262721.html Sat, 03 Oct 2009 01:00 EDT ''Onomatopoeia'' is not a Yiddish word, but perhaps it should be. Expressions like ''schmooze,'' ''kibbitz'' and ''chutzpah'' sound like exactly what they are, the very definition of onomatopoeia. http://www.miamiherald.com/living/religion-values/story/1260496.html http://www.miamiherald.com/living/religion-values/story/1260496.html Fri, 02 Oct 2009 01:00 EDT Growing up in Davie, Sahar Ullah remembers the awkward interactions, confused looks and frequent questions from friends and strangers alike about her hijab, the head cover she chooses to wear, and her religion: Islam. http://www.miamiherald.com/living/religion-values/story/1260555.html http://www.miamiherald.com/living/religion-values/story/1260555.html Thu, 01 Oct 2009 01:00 EDT Divisions deepened at Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church, the Fort Lauderdale mega-church, as two elders resigned Tuesday night following the first service of a breakaway congregation on Sunday. http://www.miamiherald.com/living/religion-values/story/1255483.html http://www.miamiherald.com/living/religion-values/story/1255483.html Sun, 27 Sep 2009 01:00 EDT Almost 3,000 Sundays after her first Mass at St. Philip Neri, the church she helped establish in 1953 in North Miami-Dade's Bunche Park neighborhood, Esterlene Colebrook came to say goodbye. http://www.miamiherald.com/living/religion-values/story/1243679.html http://www.miamiherald.com/living/religion-values/story/1243679.html Mon, 21 Sep 2009 01:00 EDT Members of the influential Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church voted overwhelmingly Sunday to keepW. Tullian Tchividjian, grandson of evangelist Billy Graham, as their spiritual leader. http://www.miamiherald.com/living/religion-values/story/1240626.html http://www.miamiherald.com/living/religion-values/story/1240626.html Sat, 19 Sep 2009 08:30 EDT She was an exotic dancer at a Miami strip club called Porky's. He showed up wearing a Hawaiian shirt, eager to share a night in the VIP lounge.<p/> They began a torrid, on-and-off love affair that ended for good in January, after she gave birth to a daughter she says is his. Now, she wants child support and has filed a restraining order against him. http://www.miamiherald.com/living/religion-values/story/1239129.html http://www.miamiherald.com/living/religion-values/story/1239129.html Thu, 17 Sep 2009 22:00 EDT With slow business at his motorcycle store, Michael Levin was unsure if he could afford the $200 ticket to services for the High Holidays, which begin Friday after sundown with Rosh Hashana. http://www.miamiherald.com/living/religion-values/story/1235638.html http://www.miamiherald.com/living/religion-values/story/1235638.html Wed, 16 Sep 2009 01:00 EDT When Rabbi Allan C. Tuffs leads Rosh Hashana services Friday night, he hopes his message of community and worship carries far beyond the seats of Temple Beth El in Hollywood -- maybe even as far as Iraq. http://www.miamiherald.com/living/religion-values/story/1232538.html http://www.miamiherald.com/living/religion-values/story/1232538.html Sun, 13 Sep 2009 01:00 EDT It's 11 p.m. on a Wednesday night and Chay Amar's synagogue, tucked into the basement of the Ramada in Sunny Isles Beach, is alive with chatter. After a full day of prayer services and study groups, Amar is just finishing an energetic speech on self-esteem to five dozen young professionals -- mostly singles -- as he takes out his iPhone and reads his phone number. http://www.miamiherald.com/living/religion-values/story/1197359.html http://www.miamiherald.com/living/religion-values/story/1197359.html Sat, 22 Aug 2009 01:00 EDT Each Friday around lunchtime, dozens of mostly African-American Muslims gather at Masjid Al-Ansar, a two-story mosque within earshot of Interstate 95 in Miami's Liberty City neighborhood. http://www.miamiherald.com/living/religion-values/story/1190586.html http://www.miamiherald.com/living/religion-values/story/1190586.html Mon, 17 Aug 2009 01:00 EDT When Katrenia Reeves drives from her West Kendall home for weekly services at St. Philip Neri, she hears hymns dating to when her ancestors were slaves -- Go Tell It on the Mountain and Somebody's Knocking at Your Door -- set to a background of drums and trumpets. http://www.miamiherald.com/living/religion-values/story/1189141.html http://www.miamiherald.com/living/religion-values/story/1189141.html Sun, 16 Aug 2009 01:00 EDT For months, Bernadette Poitier has prayed alongside members of Overtown's St. Francis Xavier, hoping a miracle would spare her Catholic church from closing down. http://www.miamiherald.com/living/religion-values/story/1167825.html http://www.miamiherald.com/living/religion-values/story/1167825.html Sat, 01 Aug 2009 23:57 EDT Thousands of South Florida Catholics are anxiously awaiting a final decision on the fate of 13 churches under consideration for closure as they turn to prayer and protests in hopes of a miracle. http://www.miamiherald.com/living/religion-values/story/1165326.html http://www.miamiherald.com/living/religion-values/story/1165326.html Sat, 01 Aug 2009 01:00 EDT A Fort Lauderdale billboard promoting atheism gave its religious neighbors a headache -- an unintented but probably unavoidable consequence, the sign's sponsors say. http://www.miamiherald.com/living/religion-values/story/1165325.html http://www.miamiherald.com/living/religion-values/story/1165325.html Fri, 31 Jul 2009 22:00 EDT There's nothing unusual about churches advertising Sunday services, but South Florida atheists are turning that idea on its head: Why not promote the belief that there is no God?