Monthly Archives: May 1996
COMMENTARY: Who’s calling who divisive?
By RNS Blog Editor — May 31, 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 via e-mail at agreel(AT)aol.com.) (RNS)-The response of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops to the […]
ANALYSIS: TOP STORY: THE ELECTIONS IN ISRAEL Netanyahu victory could affect Israel’s ties with
By Ira Rifkin — May 31, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (RNS)-Benjamin Netanyahu’s apparent election victory in Israel could well lead to political and religious conflict between any right-wing government he is likely to form and a sizeable segment of the leadership of the American Jewish community. At least for now, the mainstream leadership of the American Jewish community-despite its generally […]
NEWS STORY: Pope blesses cornerstone for Catholic culture center
By RNS Blog Editor — May 31, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service VATICAN CITY (RNS)-The metaphor seemed inescapable. The pope was borrowing from Peter to pay homage to Paul. Or at least that’s how it appeared on Thursday (May 30), as Pope John Paul II blessed a piece of stone from the tomb of St. Peter the Apostle, the first pope, that […]
NEWS STORY: Survey says most U.S. Catholics want liberal reforms
By Adelle M. Banks — May 31, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (RNS)-The next pope should allow women priests, married priests and more lay pontifical advisers, according to a poll of U.S. Catholics released today (May 30). The survey, conducted by the Gallup Organization, was commissioned by sociologist and author Andrew M. Greeley of the University of Chicago and Michael Hout, a […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — May 31, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service Little Rock Methodists cancel event over bishop’s views on gays (RNS)-A United Methodist committee in Little Rock, Ark., has canceled a planned”intergenerational day of celebration”meant to bring young and old people together because the event’s invited preacher, retired United Methodist Bishop Leontine T.C. Kelly, has voiced support for gay rights. […]
NEWS STORY: Ruling could boost religion defense in drug cases
By RNS Blog Editor — May 31, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service SAN FRANCISCO (RNS)-An unusual federal appeals court ruling in a drug smuggling case allows Rastafarians to argue that they should legally be able to use marijuana for religious reasons. The ruling from the 9th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in San Francisco orders a Montana federal judge to retry drug […]
COMMENTARY: When you wish upon a store
By James Rudin — May 31, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (Rabbi Rudin is the national interreligious affairs director of the American Jewish Committee.) (RNS)-A charismatic cult is on the rise, threatening the moral integrity of America. I speak of the Cult of Disney. Do not misunderstand me. I’m no latter-day Scrooge who says”Bah, humbug!”to the amusements of contemporary society. Nor […]
NEWS STORY: N.C. Lutheran bishop resigns after allegations of sexual misconduct
By Carl Anderson — May 30, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (RNS)-Bishop Mark W. Menees of the North Carolina Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) has resigned as a bishop and from the Lutheran ministry following allegations against him of sexual misconduct, the denomination announced Wednesday (May 29). Menees’ resignation was effective May 25. A statement from the […]
NEWS STORY: Islamic court in Kuwait proclaims Christian convert an apostate
By Kim Lawton — May 30, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service WASHINGTON (RNS)-An Islamic court in Kuwait Wednesday (May 29) proclaimed Hussein Qambar Ali, 45, guilty of apostasy-abandoning Islam, the majority religion in the Persian Gulf Arab state-because of his conversion to Christianity. Hussein, who has taken the Christian name Robert, has 30 days to appeal the decision to the Constitutional […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — May 30, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service Russian panel rejects ban on foreign missionaries (RNS)-A committee of the State Duma, or lower chamber of the Russian Parliament, has rejected a call by the Russian Orthodox Church to ban foreign missionaries. The committee is at work on a new religion law to replace a 1990 statute. Many government […]
TOP STORY: RELIGION IN AMERICA: At 30, Krishna movement seeks to overcome its past
By Ira Rifkin — May 30, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service ALACHUA, Fla. (RNS)-At 44, David Jakupko is a successful real estate agent specializing in”country homes and large properties.”He drives a late-model Jeep Cherokee and lives with his wife and two children in a five-bedroom house complete with a swimming pool and six wooded acres. A self-described”social conservative”who reads Forbes magazine […]
Hare Krishna: A modern offshoot of an ancient movement
By RNS Blog Editor — May 30, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (RNS)-The Hare Krishna sect is a modern offshoot of a 16th-century Hindu devotional movement. The sect traces its theology to the Bhagavad-gita, a 5,000-year-old Sanskrit text, and worships the Hindu deity Lord Krishna as the”supreme personality of the Godhead.” Members of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON), as Hare […]
NEWS FEATURE: Dockside chaplain works to keep sailors’ faith afloat
By Tom Gordon — May 30, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service NEWARK, N.J. (RNS)-Keeping up a brisk line of chatter, the Rev. Mario Balbi tooled his big red Dodge van through the truck-choked streets of Port Newark-Elizabeth, heading for the big Taiwanese container ship, Ming America, tied up at the Maher Terminal. On this clear, wind-whipped day, the Ming America was […]
COMMENTARY: One family’s loss of unexpected life
By RNS Blog Editor — May 30, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (Samuel K. Atchison is an ordained minister and has worked as a policy analyst and social worker to the homeless. He currently is a prison chaplain in Trenton, N.J.) (RNS)-We have been blessed in our marriage with two beautiful daughters. We were unaware that we had created another life until […]
COMMENTARY: Remembering my father, with sadness and joy
By RNS Blog Editor — May 30, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (Rabbi Lawrence Kushner, of Sudbury, Mass., is the author of nine books. The following commentary, suitable for Father’s Day, is taken from his latest book,”Invisible Lines of Connection: Sacred Stories of the Ordinary,”published by Jewish Lights Publishing of Woodstock, Vt. (RNS)-My father was, among many things, a sign painter. I […]
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