“If any religious leaders say tomorrow that the hurricane is God’s punishment against some group, they’re idiots. God’s ways are not our ways.”
James Martin
The writer for America magazine was tweeting about Hurricane Sandy. (RNS)
“Protecting the freedom of others to believe what they choose to believe about what “God intends” protects not only our own freedom to believe what “God intends” but defends our democracy from the very real threat of theocracy embodied in the policies of candidates like Richard Mourdock.”
Susan Russell
The rector of All Saints Episcopal Church in Pasadena, Calif., was writing in The Huffington Post about Indiana Senate candidate Richard Mourdock’s statement that pregnancies caused by rape is “something that God intended.” (RNS)
“This kind of fun, tempting children like candy, also poses the real possibility of great spiritual damage, even destroying spiritual life.”
Andrzej Dziega
The Polish archbishop was writing in a pastoral letter warning against the dangers of Western-style Halloween. (Polish Press Agency/RNS)