Monthly Archives: November 1996
COMMENTARY: In memory of a friend, a mentor and a brother priest
By RNS Blog Editor — November 23, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (Andrew M. Greeley is a Roman Catholic priest, best-selling novelist and sociologist at the University of Chicago National Opinion Research Center. Check out his home page at http://www.agreeley.com or contact him via e-mail at agreel(at)aol.com.) CHICAGO _ He taught the whole country how to die. One hears that phrase over […]
NEWS FEATURE: HUNTING AND HOLINESS: To every thing there is a season … Bam! Bam! Bam!
By RNS Blog Editor — November 18, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service ALPENA, Mich. _ At first glance, the St. Hubert Hunt Camp looks like a typical backwoods settlement: a cozy building tucked into woods dotted with tree stands and shooting shacks. The camp’s living room is furnished with tired old armchairs and the requisite card table. The coffee table is stacked […]
A first: Muslim, evangelical leaders to address NCC
By Carl Anderson — November 9, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service UNDATED _ The National Council of Churches, the ecumenical agency of 33 mainline Protestant and Orthodox denominations, extends its search for common ground among U.S. religions bodies with two symbolic firsts when it meets next week in Chicago. The council’s General Assembly, which convenes Nov. 13-15, will hear addresses by […]
A church divided is a church confused
By Tom Ehrich — November 9, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (UNDATED) If a Christian book-buyer were driving out Stratford Road in my home town, she could turn right into Zondervan Family Bookstore or left into Carolina Christian Supply. They are both excellent book stores, but they are emblems of separate worlds. Although they address the same issues, needs and eternal […]
Don’t believe the demagogues: Immigrants are good for the nation
By RNS Blog Editor — November 9, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (Andrew M. Greeley is a Roman Catholic priest, best-selling novelist and sociologist at the University of Chicago National Opinion Research Center. Check out his home page at http://www.agreeley.com or contact him via e-mail at agreel(at)aol.com.) UNDATED _ In one final, hysterical burst of presidential campaigning in California, Bob Dole decided […]
TOP STORY: AFTER THE FALL: On the road from sin to redemption, Bakker discovers a new reality
By Adelle M. Banks — November 8, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (UNDATED) A decade ago, when the PTL television ministry was at its peak, Jim Bakker was so busy raising money he hardly had time to read the Bible. Now, after five years in prison and two years of introspection on a rented North Carolina farm, he considers the holy book, […]
NEWS SIDEBAR: Ballot initatives related to faith, ethics, moral issues
By RNS Blog Editor — November 7, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (UNDATED) Here is a rundown of the voting on ballot initiatives with moral dimensions or in which churches and religious groups played an activist role: PARENTS’ RIGHTS Colorado: Defeated a measure that would have amended the state constitution with a provision declaring that parents have ultimate rights in matters of […]
NEWS SIDEBAR: People of faith: How they voted
By RNS Blog Editor — November 7, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (UNDATED) Here’s a rundown of exit polls and other post-election surveys of how Americans voted by religion in the 1996 presidential election. RELIGIOUS CONSERVATIVES CLINTON: 26 percent DOLE: 65 percent PEROT: 8 percent Source: Voter News Service Sample: 16,338 voters, 16 percent of whom identified themselves as”religious conservatives.” Margin of […]
NEWS STORY: VATICAN DISAPPROVAL: Vatican accuses UNICEF of promoting abortion, withholds funds
By RNS Blog Editor — November 7, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service VATICAN CITY _ Accusing the United Nations aid program for children of advocating abortion and distributing contraceptives to Third World women, the Vatican has decided to withhold its annual contribution for UNICEF activities. UNICEF officials denied the charges and said they had no evidence of support within their ranks for […]
RNS Daily Digest
By Carl Anderson — November 7, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service Archbishop sees lack of human rights threatening Bosnia peace (RNS) _ The fragile peace in Bosnia is being undermined by a lack of basic human rights, including religious rights, says Archbishop Theodore McCarrick of Newark, N.J.”The future of religious minorities in Bosnia-Herzegovina remains bleak,”McCarrick said.”A year after the Dayton Accords, […]
TOP STORY: THE CHANGING NATURE OF FAITH: Mainline churches seek marketing help to fill empty pews
By RNS Blog Editor — November 6, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service GRESHAM, Ore. _ It’s 9 a.m. on Sunday, and the sanctuary of Gresham United Methodist Church is empty. Row after row of pews, made in 1959 with the finest of Oregon timber, sit like sculpture in the dark. They are monuments to a bygone era when Americans flocked to mainline […]
TOP STORY: A THOROUGHLY IRISH TRAGEDY
By RNS Blog Editor — November 5, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (UNDATED) The death of Michael Collins, the Irish revolutionary leader who is the subject of the current Neil Jordan film of the same name, is not only one of the great tragedies of the 20th century. It is also one of the great mysteries. Collins was a”master of mayhem”in the […]
RNS Daily Digest
By Carl Anderson — November 5, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service Israeli law would invalidate non-Orthodox conversions to Judaism (RNS) Israel’s Orthodox Jewish political parties announced plans Thursday (Oct. 31) to introduce legislation to invalidate Reform and Conservative conversions to Judaism in Israel. The Orthodox parties say Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government supports the measure, the Jerusalem Post reported. Netanyahu so […]
COMMENTARY: Reflections on a pope named Roncalli and a church that used to be
By RNS Blog Editor — November 2, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (Andrew M. Greeley is a Roman Catholic priest, best-selling novelist and sociologist at the University of Chicago National Opinion Research Center. Check out his home page at http://www.agreeley.com or contact him via e-mail at agreel(at)aol.com.) COLOGNE, Germany _ As tourists and pilgrims wander through this city’s great cathedral, I sit […]
NEWS STORY: Episcopal Church rocked by Penthouse allegations of priestly orgies
By Carl Anderson — November 1, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (UNDATED) The Episcopal Church said Thursday (Oct. 31) it will thoroughly investigate allegations in the current issue of Penthouse magazine that priests in the denomination’s Long Island diocese performed and participated in same-sex marriage ceremonies and engaged in homosexual orgies involving young men from Brazil. At least two priests, the […]
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