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#ecclesiastical

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Steve Dustcircle 🌹

Suit Against #Church for #Negligent #Retention of#Pastor Can Move Ahead

In Exum v. St. Andrews-Covenant #Presbyterian Church, Inc., a #NorthCarolina state appellate court held that claims for #negligentretention, negligent infliction of #emotional #distress, and breach of fiduciary duty brought against a church do not need to be dismissed under the #ecclesiastical #abstention #doctrine because they can be decided using neutral principles of law.

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religionclause.blogspot.comSuit Against Church for Negligent Retention of Pastor Can Move Ahead In Exum v. St. Andrews-Covenant Presbyterian Church, Inc. ,  (NC App, Nov. 19, 2024), a North Carolina state appellate court held that clai...
Mick Garratt

St Nicholas’s church, Bransdale

Volunteering today with the National Trust in Bransdale. Delightfully, I took the opportunity to have a look around the quaint St Nicholas's church, perched at the head of the dale.

St Nicholas's church may be squat but it stands proud, casting a discerning gaze down the valley below. Its Grade II listing records that it was built in 1886. However, the architectural h ...

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#Bransdale#NorthYorkMoors#ecclesiastical
Mick Garratt

The Charnel House of All Saints Church

What a gloomy morning it was, with the moors blanketed in clag. However, as the afternoon arrived, so did the sun, and I popped down to the village's All Saints church to photograph its alleged charnel house.

I've posted about this remarkable church before, it proudly stands as the oldest structure in Great Ayton. The nave dates to the 12th century, with an additi ...

fhithich.uk/?p=32164

#GreatAyton#architectual#ecclesiastical
Stuart D Neilson

"The conspiratorial plot [of The Pope’s Exorcist] poses unacceptable doubt to the public as to who the real enemy is, the #devil or #ecclesiastical power”.

So says the International Association of #Exorcists. #Exorcism is often used to physically abuse, and occasionally kills, #MentallyIll, #disabled and #autistic people.

theguardian.com/film/2023/apr/

The Guardian‘Unreliable splatter’: Vatican exorcists denounce Russell Crowe’s Pope’s Exorcist By Guardian staff reporter
Torsti Luotonen

"Thus my speculative prediction: The decline of institutional and the return of more readings of Christian will lead to the decline of the deconstructionist project, which has been propped up all these years by the felt need to strike the strongest possible blow against power and tradition."

nytimes.com/2023/04/06/opinion

The New York TimesOpinion | A Naïve Reading of the Gospels May Be Just What Christianity NeedsBy Ross Douthat
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