Monthly Archives: November 2004
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — November 17, 2004
c. 2004 Religion News Service Spokane, Wash., Diocese Plans Bankruptcy Filing (RNS) The bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Spokane, Wash., has announced that his diocese plans to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy after being unable to settle claims against it relating to sexual abuse. Diocesan officials were unsuccessful in their attempts to settle 28 […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — November 17, 2004
c. 2004 Religion News Service Defense Department, ACLU Settle Suit Over Scouting Practices (RNS) The Department of Defense and the American Civil Liberties Union have reached a settlement regarding sponsorships on military property of Boy Scout troops with religious practices. The ACLU objected to military units sponsoring Boy Scout troops and Cub Scout packs that […]
NEWS STORY: Southern Baptists Battle for Soul of Louisiana College
By Bruce Nolan — November 17, 2004
c. 2004 Religion News Service PINEVILLE, La. _ With its neat red-brick buildings and green, impeccably groomed campus, Louisiana College, a small liberal arts institution owned by Louisiana’s Southern Baptists, does not look like a tense, unhappy battleground. But it is. For months, the college has been gripped by conflict between faculty and trustees over […]
COMMENTARY: Hate, However Justified, Is a Four-Letter Word
By Tom Ehrich — November 17, 2004
c. 2004 Religion News Service EMERALD ISLE, N.C. _ A real estate agent pounds on her computer, looking for information about our reservations for 2005. It is a slow process, thanks to an antiquated computer program. Do I hate her for it? Well, no. As I tell her when she apologizes, “We have driven a […]
FILM REVIEW: Prophet Muhammad Subject of Animated Film
By Stephen Whitty — November 17, 2004
c. 2004 Religion News Service (UNDATED) To critical nonbelievers, the Quran may seem a blueprint for holy war. But as brought to the screen in the new animated film “Muhammad: The Last Prophet,” it’s honored as a path to enlightenment. Sometimes the message we hear depends on the messenger delivering it. “Muhammad: The Last Prophet” […]
NEWS STORY: Kerry Advisers Say Campaign Fell Short On Religion, Urge Greater Party Effort
By Kim Lawton — November 16, 2004
c. 2004 Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly WASHINGTON _ Operatives hired to give Sen. John Kerry guidance on religious issues say the campaign fell short in linking the presidential candidate’s political vision to deeply held religious values and in mobilizing faith-based voters. “You don’t get what you don’t work for,” Mara Vanderslice, the Kerry campaign’s director […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — November 16, 2004
c. 2004 Religion News Service Presbyterians Outline Criteria for Israeli Divestment (RNS) The Presbyterian Church (USA) has set six criteria to consider in its controversial plan to pursue “phased selective” financial divestment for companies doing business in Israel. A church panel that oversees “socially responsible” investments met Nov. 4-6 in New York to establish a […]
NEWS STORY: Catholic Bishops Elect Embattled Wash. Bishop as President
By Kein Eckstrom — November 16, 2004
c. 2004 Religion News Service WASHINGTON _ A soft-spoken bishop from Washington state whose diocese is poised to declare bankruptcy was elected Monday (Nov. 15) as leader of the nation’s Roman Catholic bishops. Bishop William Skylstad of Spokane was elected to a three-year term as president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, a vote […]
NEWS ANALYSIS: In Sudan, `Between the Idea and the Reality … Falls the Shadow’
By Carl Anderson — November 16, 2004
c. 2004 Religion News Service (UNDATED) The government of Sudan and rebel groups in the nation’s troubled Darfur region, under political pressure from a looming United Nations Security Council meeting in Kenya this week (Nov. 18-19), have signed something of a peace agreement. U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan warmly welcomed the Nov. 10 accords as […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — November 13, 2004
c. 2004 Religion News Service National Council of Churches Appeals for Post-Election Unity (RNS) The National Council of Churches appealed for post-election national unity, bemoaning the “painful spectacle of Christians demonizing one another.” The NCC, which represents 36 mainline Protestant and Orthodox churches, said both conservatives and liberals need to abandon “caricatures” of each other […]
NEWS STORY: Kerry Advisers Say Campaign Fell Short On Religion, Urge Greater Party Effort
By Kim Lawton — November 13, 2004
c. 2004 Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly WASHINGTON _ Operatives hired to give Sen. John Kerry guidance on religious issues say the campaign fell short in linking the presidential candidate’s political vision to deeply held religious values and in mobilizing faith-based voters. “You don’t get what you don’t work for,” Mara Vanderslice, the Kerry campaign’s director […]
NEWS STORY: Christian Conservatives Mobilize Against Specter
By RNS Blog Editor — November 13, 2004
c. 2004 Religion News Service WASHINGTON _ Christian anti-abortion groups are planning a Tuesday (Nov. 16) “pray-in” on Capitol Hill to try to prevent Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., from chairing the Senate Judiciary Committee, which will play an important role in determining the next member of the Supreme Court. The Rev. Pat Mahoney of the […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — November 12, 2004
c. 2004 Religion News Service Spokane, Wash., Diocese Plans Bankruptcy Filing (RNS) The bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Spokane, Wash., has announced that his diocese plans to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy after being unable to settle claims against it relating to sexual abuse. Diocesan officials were unsuccessful in their attempts to settle 28 […]
COMMENTARY: Loss, in Its Many Forms, Is Part of Life’s Mystery
By RNS Blog Editor — November 12, 2004
c. 2004 Religion News Service (UNDATED) November, a season of loss in its own right, has become a deeper one for millions of people for whom the presidential election was a daunting experience of loss. As at an old-fashioned wake out of James Joyce, the loss is being mourned as poignantly and as variously as […]
COMMENTARY: What if Lindbergh, Not FDR, Had Been President?
By RNS Blog Editor — November 12, 2004
c. 2004 Religion News Service (Rabbi Rudin, the American Jewish Committee’s Senior Interreligious Adviser, is Distinguished Visiting Professor at Saint Leo University.) (UNDATED) “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. …” When Franklin D. Roosevelt took his presidential oath of office in March 1933, he electrified a nation reeling from four years […]
