Monthly Archives: October 2004
NEWS STORY: Pope’s Beatifications Stir Passion
By RNS Blog Editor — October 5, 2004
c. 2004 Religion News Service VATICAN CITY _ Pope John Paul II has caused controversy with his beatification of a mystic nun whose graphic visions of the Crucifixion inspired Mel Gibson’s movie about the final hours of Christ’s life. The pope also beatified the last Habsburg to rule the Austro-Hungarian Empire, even though his actions […]
NEWS FEATURE: After a Year of Restoration, Holocaust Torah Comes Back to Life
By RNS Blog Editor — October 5, 2004
c. 2004 Religion News Service NEW ORLEANS _ By all accounts, the moment arrived with a real emotional wallop _ completely unexpected yet completely genuine, according to those who were there. The place: Temple Sinai in New Orleans, at the morning service on Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the Jewish year. The congregation’s choir […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — October 5, 2004
c. 2004 Religion News Service Episcopalians Likely to Consider Israeli Divestment (RNS) Two top officials of the Episcopal Church said an investments panel will recommend a 12-month study of whether the denomination should divest from companies operating in Israel, following a similar move by the Presbyterian Church (USA). The Presbyterians’ decision to explore divestment has […]
NEWS STORY: Voters Ambivalent About Religion Shaping Politics
By RNS Blog Editor — October 2, 2004
c. 2004 Religion News Service (UNDATED) Listening to him preach against abortion and same-sex marriage, it seems easy to figure which candidate the Rev. Lloyd Pulley favors in the presidential election. But from the pulpit at Calvary Chapel in Old Bridge, N.J., Pulley never mentions his preference for President Bush over Sen. John Kerry. Pulley, […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — October 2, 2004
c. 2004 Religion News Service Both Sides Claim Victory in House Vote on Gay Marriage WASHINGTON (RNS) Both supporters and opponents claimed victory after a proposed constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage failed a second congressional vote Thursday (Sept. 30). The Marriage Protection Amendment, which would define marriage as solely between one man and one […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — October 1, 2004
c. 2004 Religion News Service Religious Groups Say Attack on Gallup is Attack on Faith (RNS) Some religious groups are crying foul over a liberal advocacy group’s attempt to make an issue about the faith of pollster George Gallup Jr. MoveOn.org went after Gallup in a full-page advertisement in the New York Times Tuesday (Sept. […]
COMMENTARY: In Wake of Sex Scandal, Bishops Just Don’t Get It
By Frances Kennedy — October 1, 2004
c. 2004 Religion News Service (UNDATED) America’s bishops have the blues and are giving Catholics the blahs. They speak of America’s Catholic city of God as if it were either Sodom or Gomorrah. They seem afraid of their own people and are desperately searching for ways to assert control over them. Some, like William Murphy […]
NEWS FEATURE: Reconciliation Walk Repents for Slavery
By Adelle M. Banks — October 1, 2004
c. 2004 Religion News Service ANNAPOLIS, Md. _ Dressed in a black T-shirt marked with the words “So Sorry,” London citizen David Pott dropped to his knees and apologized for his ancestors’ role in transporting slaves to America. “I confess the greed of my city and that I was made rich at the expense of […]
COMMENTARY: Is There More to Religious Issues Than God, Gays, Guns?
By James Rudin — October 1, 2004
c. 2004 Religion News Service (Rabbi Rudin, the American Jewish Committee’s senior interreligious adviser, is distinguished visiting professor at Saint Leo University.) A June 2004 Time magazine poll reported that 79 percent of Americans believe that religious beliefs should serve as a guide to voting. As a result, you can forget Iraq, terrorism, health care, […]
NEWS STORY: Vatican Set to Beatify Gibson’s Passionate Muse
By Kein Eckstrom — October 1, 2004
c. 2004 Religion News Service (UNDATED) Pope John Paul II on Sunday (Oct. 3) will beatify Sister Anne Catherine Emmerich, a sickly 19th century nun who claimed to have visions that gave her courtside seats at Jesus’ execution. But curiously, the Vatican says her grisly revelations _ which provided inspiration for Mel Gibson’s “The Passion […]
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