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Sacramento faithful examines what religion teaches us about climate change

March 9, 2014, 11:02 am
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While children at Rancho Cordova’s Hagan Community Park played baseball, fished and watched ducks waddle on a glorious Saturday afternoon, Sacramento’s diverse interfaith community gathered to examine religion’s role in addressing climate change.

Flanked by two major rivers and near a delta greatly influenced by the Pacific Ocean, Sacramento could end up under water if climate change that causes sea levels to rise is not arrested.
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Sacramento Bishop Jaime Soto leads vast diocese with a smile

March 16, 2014, 12:00 am
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For its “Breaking Bread – Building Bridges” series on Feb. 22, Sacramento’s Mosaic Law Congregation welcomed a genial Roman Catholic to the synagogue’s pulpit. Bishops and rabbis rarely share the same spiritual stage, but Jaime Soto has made a point of reaching out across faiths and cultures in his seven years as head of the sprawling Sacramento diocese, California’s third largest.

Monsignor Al O'Connor, left, helps Bishop Jaime Soto prepare his vestments before he leads a Mass at St. Maria Goretti Parish on Sunday, December 15, 2013 in Elk Grove, Calif.

Bishop Jaime Soto present the Eucharist during a Mass at St. Joseph's Catholic Church on Friday, December 20, 2013 in Elk Grove, Calif.

Bishop Jaime Soto greets a young man following a Mass at St. Maria Goretti Parish on Sunday, December 15, 2013 in Elk Grove, Calif.

A woman kisses the hand of Bishop Jaime Soto following a Mass at St. Joseph's Catholic Church on Friday, December 20, 2013 in Elk Grove, Calif.
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Faith and health care law to collide at Supreme Court

March 21, 2014, 8:58 pm
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People can pray. Corporations cannot. But now the Supreme Court must decide whether impersonal, for-profit companies do enjoy religious rights that exempt them from providing contraceptives under the Obama administration’s health care law.

A full-size scrim imprinted with the U.S. Supreme Court building's facade covers scaffolding during renovation work at the Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday, July 10, 2013.
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Pope announces 1st members of sex abuse commission

March 22, 2014, 9:11 am
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Pope Francis named the initial members of a commission to advise him on sex abuse policy Saturday, tapping lay and religious experts — and an Irish woman assaulted as a child by a priest — to start plotting the commission's tasks and priorities.
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No ticket? Other ways to view ordination of Sacramento’s auxiliary bishop

March 25, 2014, 8:39 am
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Roman Catholics can view the ordination of auxiliary Bishop-designate Myron J. Cotta Tuesday on television and at select viewing sites.

Monsignor Myron Cotta was named auxiliary bishop of the Sacramento Diocese. He grew up on a farm in Merced County and has served as a priest in the Fresno Diocese for 26 years.
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Auxiliary bishop ordained

March 25, 2014, 11:45 pm
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Monsignor Myron J. Cotta, above, is anointed with oil by Bishop Jaime Soto during Cotta’s ordination as auxiliary bishop for the Catholic Diocese of Sacramento on Tuesday at the Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament.

Monsignor Myron J. Cotta is anointed with oil by Bishop Jaime Soto during Cotta’s ordination as auxiliary bishop for the Catholic Diocese of Sacramento.

Priests sing during the service that installed Cotta, 61, as second in command to Soto in the sprawling diocese.
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Pope and president all smiles, but Vatican official also raises religious freedom in U.S.

March 27, 2014, 4:53 pm
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President Barack Obama proclaimed himself a “great admirer” as he met Pope Francis for the first time Thursday, delivering a box of vegetable seeds from the White House garden, along with an invite to tour it in person.

U.S. President Barack Obama meets with Pope Francis during a private audience at the Vatican on March 27, 2014. Obama met with Pope Francis for the first time on the third leg of a European tour.
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Mormons gather for historic women's meeting

March 30, 2014, 5:32 pm
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Mormon women gathered around the world this weekend for what leaders called a historic meeting of the faith.

The Angel Moroni statue atop the Salt Lake Temple in Temple Square is silhouetted against the cloud-covered sky Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2013, in Salt Lake City. A second Utah storm in little more than two days dropped as much as 24 inches of snow Tuesday on Liberty in the mountain-framed Ogden Valley. (AP Photo/ Rick Bowmer)
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Folsom Chabad dedicates new Torah on Sunday

April 4, 2014, 5:03 pm
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The public is invited Sunday to the dedication of a new Torah scroll at the Chabad Jewish Community Center of Folsom.
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Hospital’s patients are in good hands

April 9, 2014, 8:53 am
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Chaplain Hai Tran, above right, blesses the hands of nurse Hachelle Natano in the chapel at the Alex G. Spanos Heart & Vascular Center to mark the center’s opening on Tuesday in Sacramento.

Chaplain Hai Tran, right, blesses the hands of Hachelle Natano, a registered nurse, in the chapel at the Alex G. Spanos Heart & Vascular Center to to mark the center’s opening.

Mercy General Hospital staff members participate in a washing of the hands ceremony in the chapel at the Alex G. Spanos Heart & Vascular Center to mark the center’s opening Tuesday.

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Bible-reading programs in vogue, but fewer Americans overall reading Scripture

April 16, 2014, 9:43 am
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For a growing number of Protestant churches around the country, programs that encourage congregants to embark on Bible-reading curricula have become a steady trend.

Bonnie Grotheer prays after a Bible study session Friday at St. John’s Lutheran Church in midtown, where a group has set out to read the entire Bible in 90 days at a pace of 12 pages a day.

Carol Rauen listens to a discussion during bible study.

Associate Pastor Leslie Welton of St. John’s Lutheran Church leads the Bible study group Friday. The study group was timed to coincide with Lent and the Easter season. The Houston-based Bible in 90 Days ministry has encouraged participants to read the Scriptures since 1999.

Pastor Frank Espegren, right, sits with congregants attending the Bible study group run by St. John’s associate pastor, Leslie Welton.
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In Sacramento area, you can celebrate Easter at the lake, the river – even the mall

April 18, 2014, 5:34 pm
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For those who don’t want to sit in a pew to attend Easter Sunday services, there are options along the American River, at Folsom Lake and in the parking lot at the Roseville Galleria.

Bonnie Grotheer prays after a Bible study session Friday at St. John’s Lutheran Church in midtown, where a group has set out to read the entire Bible in 90 days at a pace of 12 pages a day.
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Gifts at Easter are latest bridge between Sacramento-area Muslims and Christians

April 18, 2014, 6:48 pm
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To honor their Christian friends on Easter – a celebration of renewal – Muslim leaders in Sacramento will deliver 300 gifts at noon Saturday to The First Covenant Church in Rancho Cordova.

Irfan Haq, reading from the Quran at the Salam Islamic Center, says that the giving of gifts from Muslims to members of the First Covenant Church is “a gesture of goodwill and a show of love and respect for our Christian brothers and sisters.”
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Sacramento County supervisors reject Indian temple location near Galt

April 23, 2014, 10:36 pm
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Sacramento County supervisors on Wednesday unanimously rejected a site just outside Galt for an Indian temple, saying that requirements proposed to placate angry neighbors were unworkable.
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Francis presides over historic day of 4 popes

April 27, 2014, 8:16 pm
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Two 20th-century popes who changed the course of the Catholic Church became saints Sunday as Pope Francis honored John XXIII and John Paul II in a delicate balancing act aimed at bringing together the conservative and progressive wings of the church.

In this photo provided by the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano, Pope Francis, right, embraces his predecessor Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, during a ceremony in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Sunday, April 27, 2014. Pope Francis has declared his two predecessors John XXIII and John Paul II saints in an unprecedented canonization ceremony made even more historic by the presence of retired Pope Benedict XVI.

Pilgrims gather in via della Conciliazione, in front of St. Peter's Square, as they wait to attend the ceremony for the canonization of Pope John XXIII and Pope John Paul II, in Rome, early Sunday, April 27, 2014. Pilgrims and tourists streamed into Rome to participate in the ceremony in St. Peter's Square that will see two popes, John XXIII and John Paul II, be proclaimed saints.

A devotee touches to pray at the statue of Roman Catholic Pope John Paul II on display with other relics of the late Pope as well as Pope John XXIII in celebration of their canonization or the elevation to sainthood Sunday, April 27, 2014, at suburban Quezon city, northeast of Manila, Philippines. Pope Francis declared his two predecessors John XXIII and John Paul II saints on Sunday before hundreds of thousands of people in St. Peter's Square, an unprecedented ceremony made even more historic by the presence of retired Pope Benedict XVI. The predominantly Roman Catholic Philippines joins several nations worldwide in the celebration of canonization of the two Popes.

A boy dressed as a Pope, yawns as he prepares to join a parade in celebration of the canonization or the elevation to sainthood in the Vatican of Roman Catholic Pope John Paul II and Pope John XXIII Sunday, April 27, 2014, at suburban Quezon city, northeast of Manila, Philippines. Pope Francis declared his two predecessors John XXIII and John Paul II saints on Sunday before hundreds of thousands of people in St. Peter's Square, an unprecedented ceremony made even more historic by the presence of retired Pope Benedict XVI. The predominantly Roman Catholic Philippines joins several nations worldwide in the celebration of canonization of the two Popes.
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Con man gets prison for San Diego church fraud

April 28, 2014, 6:30 pm
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A former pastor and notorious con man was sentenced to five years in federal prison Monday for stealing $3.5 million from his San Diego church and its members, a tale of betrayal that a judge said made the three-time felon one of the worst white-collar criminals.
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At UN, Vatican sex abuse compared with torture

May 5, 2014, 8:13 pm
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A U.N. committee compared the Vatican's handling of the global priest sex abuse scandal with torture Monday, raising the possibility that its failure to investigate clergy and their superiors could have broader legal implications.

Archbishop Silvano M. Tomasi, left, Apostolic Nuncio, Permanent Observer of the Holy See (Vatican) to the Office of the United Nations in Geneva, speaks with Claudio Grossmann, right, Chairperson of UN Committee against Torture, prior the UN torture committee hearing on the Vatican, at the headquarters of the office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) in the Palais Wilson, in Geneva, Switzerland, Monday, May 5, 2014. The UN Committee Against Torture hears the Holy See for the first time to consider whether the church's handling of child sexual abuse complaints has violated its obligations against subjecting minors to torture and to hear the Vatican on its efforts to stamp out child sex abuse by priests.

Archbishop Silvano M. Tomasi, left, Apostolic Nuncio, Permanent Observer of the Holy See (Vatican) to the Office of the United Nations in Geneva, delivers his statement during the UN torture committee hearing on the Vatican, at the headquarters of the office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) in the Palais Wilson, in Geneva, Switzerland, Monday, May 5, 2014. The UN Committee Against Torture hears the Holy See for the first time to consider whether the church's handling of child sexual abuse complaints has violated its obligations against subjecting minors to torture and to hear the Vatican on its efforts to stamp out child sex abuse by priests.

Archbishop Silvano M. Tomasi, left, Apostolic Nuncio, Permanent Observer of the Holy See (Vatican) to the Office of the United Nations in Geneva, speaks with Claudio Grossmann, right, Chairperson of UN Committee against Torture, prior the UN torture committee hearing on the Vatican, at the headquarters of the office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) in the Palais Wilson, in Geneva, Switzerland, Monday, May 5, 2014. The UN Committee Against Torture hears the Holy See for the first time to consider whether the church's handling of child sexual abuse complaints has violated its obligations against subjecting minors to torture and to hear the Vatican on its efforts to stamp out child sex abuse by priests.

Archbishop Silvano M. Tomasi, left, Apostolic Nuncio, Permanent Observer of the Holy See (Vatican) to the Office of the United Nations in Geneva, shakes hand with Claudio Grossmann, right, Chairperson of UN Committee against Torture, prior the UN torture committee hearing on the Vatican, at the headquarters of the office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) in the Palais Wilson, in Geneva, Switzerland, Monday, May 5, 2014. The UN Committee Against Torture hears the Holy See for the first time to consider whether the church's handling of child sexual abuse complaints has violated its obligations against subjecting minors to torture and to hear the Vatican on its efforts to stamp out child sex abuse by priests.
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Archbishop defends church teachings before U.N. panel, calls abortion ‘torture’ of unborn

May 6, 2014, 5:59 pm
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The Vatican’s representative to a United Nations panel probing the Roman Catholic Church’s handling of child sexual abuse on Tuesday equated abortion to torture and said the U.N. panel’s focus on the church’s teachings on the subject was inappropriate.
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Archbishop defends church teachings before U.N. panel, calls abortion ‘torture’ of unborn

May 7, 2014, 9:51 am
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The Vatican’s representative to a United Nations panel probing the Roman Catholic Church’s handling of child sexual abuse on Tuesday equated abortion to torture and said the U.N. panel’s focus on the church’s teachings on the subject was inappropriate.
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Pope OKs miracle for Paul VI in sainthood process

May 10, 2014, 11:15 am
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Pope Paul VI, who did much to modernize the Roman Catholic Church but pronounced a ban on artificial contraception which was widely defied by the faithful, has moved a step closer to sainthood with Pope Francis' official confirmation of a miracle.

FILE - In this file photo, taken on July 3, 1963, President Kennedy is shown at the Vatican in an audience with Pope Paul VI. Pope Francis has approved a miracle credited to the intercession of Paul VI and set the date for the late pontiff's beatification for Oct. 19, the Vatican said Saturday. Francis had authorized the beatification, the last formal step before possible sainthood, a day earlier, the Vatican said. Paul VI, who reigned as pontiff from 1963-1978, made landmark progress in improving Catholics' relationship with other Christians. His papacy is also remembered by his decision, after years of study, to ban contraception for Catholics, in a 1968 encyclical, "Humanae Vitae" ("of human life").

FILE - In this file photo taken on June 30, 1964, Pope Paul VI, wearing full Pontific robes and the Papal "Tiara" or triple crown, lifts both hands to answer to a cheering crowd, as he is carried on his portable throne out of saint Peter's Basilica, after having attended a solemn Pontific mass, marking the first anniversary of his coronation. Pope Francis has approved a miracle credited to the intercession of Paul VI and set the date for the late pontiff's beatification for Oct. 19, the Vatican said Saturday. Francis had authorized the beatification, the last formal step before possible sainthood, a day earlier, the Vatican said. Paul VI, who reigned as pontiff from 1963-1978, made landmark progress in improving Catholics' relationship with other Christians. His papacy is also remembered by his decision, after years of study, to ban contraception for Catholics, in a 1968 encyclical, "Humanae Vitae" ("of human life").

FILE -- In this file photo taken on June 30, 1963, Alfredo Cardinal Ottaviani, Italian member of the Vatican Curia, places the Tiara Crown on the head of Pope Paul VI during the coronation ceremony outdoor, in front of St. Peter's. Pope Francis has approved a miracle credited to the intercession of Paul VI and set the date for the late pontiff's beatification for Oct. 19, the Vatican said Saturday. Francis had authorized the beatification, the last formal step before possible sainthood, a day earlier, the Vatican said. Paul VI, who reigned as pontiff from 1963-1978, made landmark progress in improving Catholics' relationship with other Christians. His papacy is also remembered by his decision, after years of study, to ban contraception for Catholics, in a 1968 encyclical, "Humanae Vitae" ("of human life").

FILE -- In this file photo taken on March 29, 1964, Pope Paul VI salutes a crowd estimated at 200,000 as he is carried on portable throne through St. Peter's Square in Vatican City. Pope Francis has approved a miracle credited to the intercession of Paul VI and set the date for the late pontiff's beatification for Oct. 19, the Vatican said Saturday. Francis had authorized the beatification, the last formal step before possible sainthood, a day earlier, the Vatican said. Paul VI, who reigned as pontiff from 1963-1978, made landmark progress in improving Catholics' relationship with other Christians. His papacy is also remembered by his decision, after years of study, to ban contraception for Catholics, in a 1968 encyclical, "Humanae Vitae" ("of human life").
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