local meetings and an estimated 2 million members worldwide. “Some think AA is not strict enough,” said Lee Ann Kaskutas, senior scientist at the Public Health Institute’s Alcohol Research Group in Emeryville, Calif. “Others think it’s too strict, so they want to change AA and make it get with the times.”
Monks win casket case Funeral directors in Louisiana can’t stop monks from selling their simple handmade caskets. The 5th U.S. Cir- cuit Court of Appeals ruled the Bene- dictine monks of St. Joseph Abbey near Covington, La., have a right to sell caskets in their home state. The monks’ victory helps them pursue the livelihood they’ve forged in the years since 2005, when Hurricane Katrina decimated timber holdings that had previously provided essen- tial income for the abbey. It also gives Louisiana consumers access to basic cypress caskets that sell for $1,500 and $2,000—far below prices charged at the state’s funeral homes, according to the court opinion.
Mormons update teachings
In March, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints revised its book of Doctrine and Covenants for 2013 to change references to its posi- tion on polygamy and its ban until 1978 on ordaining people of Afri- can descent. In an interview with National Public Radio, Mormon scholar Terryl Givens said church founder Joseph Smith ordained people of African descent, but his successor, Brigham Young, insti- tuted the ban. The Doctrine and Covenants introduction also states that “monogamy is God’s standard for marriage unless he declares oth- erwise.” Mormon scriptures consist of the Bible, the Book of Mormon, Doctrine and Covenants, and Pearl of Great Price.
An audience with the pope Bishop Munib A. Younan, president of the Lutheran World Federation, presents
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Pope Francis I with a Salvadoran cross to help inspire his ministry. “May this serve as an encouragement so you offer your pastoral experiences in Argentina as gifts for this new service into which you have been called,” Younan told the pope. LWF General Secretary Martin Junge (left) presented Not Just Numbers, an LWF pub- lication on external debt, to the pope, saying, “Our relationship and our unity, received as a gift of God, unfold their full meaning when we see them in the con- text of God’s promise of life in abundance to all human beings.”
Maryland: No death penalty
After calls from Roman Catholic, Lutheran, Presbyterian, Jewish, Muslim and other religious lead- ers, Maryland became the first state below the Mason-Dixon Line to abolish the death penalty. On March 15 it joined 17 other states that have repealed capital punishment. The clergy had said capital punishment has been influenced by racial dis- crimination and minority defendants
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Mary Doe, 101, new citizen When Mary Doe, 101, a native of Liberia and member of Trinity Lutheran Church, Roanoke, Va., became a U.S. citizen on March 8, U.S. Judge James Turk said she was the oldest person he had sworn into citizenship. She received a standing ovation as 44 people from 29 coun- 10
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