Har Shalom to host Pesach event
Pesach 2014/5774 will be held at Congregation Har Shalom, 2537 County Road 203.
A gathering with hors d’oeuvres will take place at 6 p.m. April 14. There will be a Seder at 6:30 p.m. and a buffet dinner at 7:15 p.m.
The cost is $40 for members, $50 for nonmembers and $15 for children 12 and younger. Reservations must be received by Thursday. Seating is limited.
Dinner will include ratatouille, roasted vegetables, matzoh kugle with veggie stock, roasted sweet potatoes, herb poached salmon and chicken martini. Dessert will include fresh fruit and flourless orange cakes.
To RSVP, call 382-8300, 946-7194, 317-5073 or email capdanbob@gmail.com.
Archbishop apologizes over $2.2M mansion
ATLANTA – The Roman Catholic Archbishop of Atlanta has apologized for building a $2.2 million mansion for himself.
Archbishop Wilton Gregory said in a column published Monday he will sell the new residence and move elsewhere if that’s what the people of his diocese want.
Gregory said he failed to project the cost in terms of his “integrity and pastoral credibility.”
The nearly 6,400-square-foot home sits in one of Atlanta’s most exclusive neighborhoods. A group of Catholics met with Gregory in January to ask him to sell the residence and move back to his original home. His old home was purchased by the Cathedral of Christ The King, so it could become a residence for its priests.
The cathedral purchased Gregory’s old home using $1.9 million from a charitable donation.
Crowe meets Anglican leader after ‘Noah’
LONDON – The pope said no but the leader of the world’s Anglicans was happy to meet Russell Crowe, star of the Biblical epic “Noah.”
Crowe was denied a private audience with Pope Francis when he was promoting the movie in Rome last month. But Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby met the actor at the cleric’s Lambeth Palace home Tuesday, the day after the movie’s British premiere, to discuss faith and spirituality.
Director Darren Aronofsky’s film is a box-office hit in the U.S., but some Christian conservatives have complained it takes liberties with the Biblical account of the flood. It has been banned in parts of the Muslim world where it’s taboo to depict a prophet.
Welby’s office said the archbishop had seen “Noah” and found it “interesting and thought-provoking.”
Christian rock pioneer’s album added to registry
WASHINGTON – A 1972 album by Christian rock pioneer Larry Norman has been added to the National Recording Registry of the Library of Congress.
“Only Visiting This Planet” included two of the controversial singer’s best-known songs. “I Wish We’d All Been Ready” was about someone who missed the Rapture, while “The Great American Novel” harshly critiqued modern culture.
A statement by the Library calls the album “the key work in the early history of Christian rock.” It says Norman, who died in 2008 at the age of 60, “commented on the world as he saw it from his position as a passionate, idiosyncratic outsider to mainstream churches.”
Herald Staff & Associated Press
