Monthly Archives: March 1996
COMMENTARY: Hooray for Hollywood
By RNS Blog Editor — March 28, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (Charles W. Colson, former special counsel to Richard Nixon, served a prison term for his role in the Watergate scandal. He now heads Prison Fellowship International, an evangelical Christian ministry to the imprisoned and their families. Contact Colson via e-mail at 71421,1551(at sign)compuserve.com.) (RNS)-When Hollywood film mogul Frank Capra quit […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — March 27, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service Episcopal Church agrees to settle civil suit against former treasurer (RNS)-Presiding Bishop Edmond L. Browning of the Episcopal Church has announced that the church reached an agreement to settle its civil suit against former treasurer Ellen F. Cooke, who pleaded guilty to embezzling church funds, and her husband, Nicholas T. […]
TOP STORY: JUDAISM IN AMERICA: Butchers have a beef with state kosher laws
By Chris Smith — March 27, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service NEW YORK (RNS)-It wasn’t the $11,000 fine that hurt the most, say Long Island butchers Brian and Jeffrey Yarmeisch. It was the damage to their reputation in the Jewish community after they were cited in 1993 for violating New York state’s kosher food laws. Though the fine was soon rescinded, […]
NEWS FEATURE: Dating service founder seeks matches made in heaven
By Ed White — March 27, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (RNS)-Ever since the original matchmaker created Adam and Eve, men and women have been trying to find the perfect mate. While she certainly doesn’t claim to be God, Kimberly Gura hopes she can help people, especially Christians, find their mate through Perfect Match, a Christian dating service. “First […]
NEWS STORY: Bishop threatens to excommunicate Catholics in `incompatible’ groups
By Adelle M. Banks — March 26, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (RNS)-The Roman Catholic bishop of Lincoln, Neb., is threatening to excommunicate Catholic members of a dozen groups whose ideas he considers incompatible with church teachings. Bishop Fabian Bruskewitz said he has forbidden Catholics in his southern Nebraska diocese from belonging to Planned Parenthood, the Freemasons, the Hemlock Society, Catholics for […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — March 26, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service Newspaper says Hickey blocked Jesuit from school post (RNS)-Vatican officials have barred a provincial superior of the Society of Jesus in Maryland from becoming president of the Jesuit Weston School of Theology in Cambridge, Mass., according to the National Catholic Reporter. The Reporter, an independent liberal Catholic weekly, said in […]
TOP STORY: THE CATHOLIC CHURCH: Ousted French bishop makes cyberspace his pulpit
By RNS Blog Editor — March 26, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service PARIS (RNS)-He was removed from his diocese by Pope John Paul II for spouting progressive views. But one year later, Monsignor Jacques Gaillot has eluded the church by connecting with followers on the World Wide Web. Often described as the church’s first”virtual bishop,”Gaillot says he will not be denied his […]
COMMENTARY: Give me that on-line religion
By Brendan Kirby — March 26, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (Robert Kirby is a Mormon humorist and regular columnist for the Salt Lake Tribune.) (RNS)-I just received my copy of Christian Computing, a magazine devoted to helping Christians funnel the spirit of God through their computers. Reading through Christian Computing, it’s plain that religious folk are making the leap into […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — March 23, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service Christian music sales grow at faster rate than other genres (RNS)-Gospel music sales are growing faster than sales of other major forms of popular music, according to a study released Thursday (March 21) by the Gospel Music Association. Between 1991 and 1995, gospel music has averaged 22 percent growth per […]
TOP STORY: MEDICINE AND ETHICS: Physicians’ classic anatomy work used victims of Nazi murders
By RNS Blog Editor — March 23, 1996
c. 1996 The Jerusalem Report (RNS)-One day in April 1993, Dr. Howard Israel, an oral surgeon at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center in New York City, prepared for an operation by doing what he always did beforehand: Reviewing the terrain in his trusted copy of”Pernkopf’s Topographical and Applied Human Anatomy,”considered a classic reference work for surgeons, […]
TOP STORY: THE HOLOCAUST: A message of tolerance from the woman who sheltered Anne Frank
By RNS Blog Editor — March 22, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service CLEVELAND (RNS)-To watch Miep Gies with children is to understand why Anne Frank loved her. Gies, who risked her life to hide the Frank family from the Nazis during World War II, told Cleveland-area junior high school students that for a long while she hated all Germans and Austrians because […]
NEWS STORY: Pope says priests obliged to remain celibate
By RNS Blog Editor — March 22, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service VATICAN CITY (RNS)-Pope John Paul II told the Roman Catholic Church’s 400,000 priests Thursday (March 21) that they are obliged to remain faithful to their vows of celibacy. In his annual letter to priests marking Holy Thursday, which celebrates the sacrament of priestly ordination and falls the week before Easter […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — March 22, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service Grahams to receive Gold Medal on National Day of Prayer (RNS)-Evangelist Billy Graham and his wife, Ruth, are scheduled to receive the Congressional Gold Medal on May 2, the National Day of Prayer. The joint meeting of Congress will be held at 2 p.m. in the Capitol Rotunda to honor […]
COMMENTARY: The graceful fiction of Andre Dubus
By RNS Blog Editor — March 22, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (Andrew M. Greeley is a Roman Catholic priest, best-selling novelist and sociologist at the University of Chicago’s National Opinion Research Center. His home page on the World Wide Web is at http://www.greeley.com. Or contact him at his e-mail address: agreel(at sign)aol.com. Check RNS Online for a photo of Andrew Greeley.) […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — March 21, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service Amnesty International slams China’s human rights record (RNS)-Amnesty International, the London-based human rights groups, said Tuesday (March 12) that despite giant economic strides, “human rights violations occur on a massive scale in China.” The international rights group’s criticism was contained in a 121-page report, “No One is Safe: Political Repression […]
