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Julia Roberts: 'I'm Definitely a Practicing Hindu'
By David Gibson - Politics DailyJulia Roberts, the star of the movie "Eat Pray Love" tells Elle magazine that she and her entire family are practicing Hindus, making her the most prominent convert to one of America's smaller but increasingly prominent immigrant religions. Roberts, 42, tells the fashion magazine that she and husband Danny Moder and their three children, 5-year-old twins Phinnaeus and Hazel and 3-year-old Henry, all go to temple to "chant and pray and celebrate." "I'm definitely a practicing Hindu," says Roberts, who grew up with a Catholic mother and Baptist father. That seems to make her the most famous ...
Will Chelsea Clinton Convert to Judaism?
By not in system - AOL News(July 11) -- The survival of Judaism as a religion and the Jewish people as a community are eternal worries for Jews around the world, but rarely do those dual concerns come together as spectacularly as they will in the wedding later this month of former first daughter Chelsea Clinton and the scion of another Democratic clan, Marc Mezvinsky. ...
Michael Jackson Would Have Been Saved by Islam, Brother Says
By David Gibson - Politics DailyIn an interview marking the first anniversary of Michael Jackson's death, one of his older brothers, Jermaine Jackson, said the pop icon would still be alive if he had converted to Islam, as Jermaine had long urged him to do. "I felt that if Michael would have embraced Islam he would still be here today and I say that for many reasons," Jermaine Jackson, who is a Muslim, told BBC World Service radio. "Why? Because when you are 100 percent clear in your mind as to who you are, and what you are, and why you are and everybody around you, then things change in a way that's better for you. It's ...
Sex and the Celibate Priest: Vatican Hedges Offer to Anglicans
By David Gibson - Politics DailyWhen the Vatican announced that it would create a special Catholic haven for traditional Anglicans who are fed up with their own church's toleration of gay priests and women bishops, it was portrayed as an offer too good to pass up: Priests and bishops, pewsitters and parishes could all migrate to Rome without leaving behind their Reformation-era traditions, rites and churches -- or even, in the case of married clergy, their wives and families. The exemption on mandatory celibacy, which has been church law in Catholicism for a thousand years, was seen as a particular attraction for married ...
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