Monthly Archives: August 2006
Put a Diaper on That Goat … Or Else
By Kevin Eckstrom — August 15, 2006
NPR’s John Hendren tells us that shepherds outside Baghdad have been killed by Islamic militants for failing to put diapers on their goats. The goats (or at least the thinking goes) present too much of a temptation for sexually frustrated men in the wartorn country. A similar fate has met grocers who placed celery stalks […]
Praying for rain
By Tracy Gordon — August 15, 2006
Quote of the Day: Mayor David Miller of Lubbock, Texas “Nobody is going to tell God what to do and what not to do, but we are in a serious drought in West Texas and since he is the man who controls the rain clouds we’re asking him for his mercy and his help.” – […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — August 15, 2006
c. 2006 Religion News Service Pope Says Women Will `Make Their Own Space’ in Church VATICAN CITY (RNS) Pope Benedict XVI said women should not have to face obstacles as they seek a greater role in the church even as he reiterated church teaching against female priests. In an interview aired Sunday (Aug. 13) with […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — August 15, 2006
c. 2006 Religion News Service Pope Says Women Will `Make Their Own Space’ in Church VATICAN CITY (RNS) Pope Benedict XVI said women should not have to face obstacles as they seek a greater role in the church even as he reiterated church teaching against female priests. In an interview aired Sunday (Aug. 13) with […]
RNS Clips: Talking Over The Din Of War
By Kevin Eckstrom — August 15, 2006
Omar Sacirbey’s insightful article on efforts by Jews and Muslims to keep relations open despite the war in the Middle East was featured in The Washington Post: An unprecedented swell of interfaith activities followed the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, and American Muslims and Jews have found common ground as religious minorities with shared […]
RNS Clips: D.C. Interns Advocate for Faith-based Public Policy
By Kevin Eckstrom — August 15, 2006
Our recent story by J. Edward Mendez on D.C. interns who spend their summers advocating for faith-based public policy can be found in The Washington Post. Dozens of religious organizations seasonally turn the District into a training camp for scores of college students and recent graduates. The internship programs, crossing religious and denominational lines, teach […]
Catholic Cable Channel Turns 25 as Founder Ails
By Greg Garrison — August 15, 2006
c. 2006 Religion News Service BIRMINGHAM, Ala. _ More than 5,000 people turned out at an arena here on Saturday (Aug. 12) to celebrate the 25th anniversary of EWTN, the global Catholic satellite TV network started in Alabama by an energetic nun. Mother Angelica, 83, who founded EWTN in the garage of her Irondale monastery […]
Catholic Cable Channel Turns 25 as Founder Ails
By Greg Garrison — August 15, 2006
c. 2006 Religion News Service BIRMINGHAM, Ala. _ More than 5,000 people turned out at an arena here on Saturday (Aug. 12) to celebrate the 25th anniversary of EWTN, the global Catholic satellite TV network started in Alabama by an energetic nun. Mother Angelica, 83, who founded EWTN in the garage of her Irondale monastery […]
Music Festival Puts New Spin on Catholic Worship
By RNS Blog Editor — August 15, 2006
c. 2006 Religion News Service WICKLIFFE, Ohio _ Play that funky music, church boys. Play it with Christian artists like the rockers Sanctus Real and five-time Grammy winner Steven Curtis Chapman. Play it and Catholic youth _ not always accustomed to hearing their generation’s music in parishes _ will come by the multitudes. An estimated […]
Music Festival Puts New Spin on Catholic Worship
By RNS Blog Editor — August 15, 2006
c. 2006 Religion News Service WICKLIFFE, Ohio _ Play that funky music, church boys. Play it with Christian artists like the rockers Sanctus Real and five-time Grammy winner Steven Curtis Chapman. Play it and Catholic youth _ not always accustomed to hearing their generation’s music in parishes _ will come by the multitudes. An estimated […]
RNS Clips: Jim Martin on Torture
By Kevin Eckstrom — August 15, 2006
Jim Martin’s recent essay on U.S. torture policy can be found here: In a nation where the name of Jesus comes too easily to the lips of political leaders, his most essential teaching is proving easy to ignore. Jesus said that we should love and even pray for our enemies-not torture them. The degradations undergone […]
Friday Mourning; The Fest; EWTN
By RNS Blog Editor — August 15, 2006
In Monday’s RNS report David Briggs writes about the mass appeal of “Friday Mourning,” a Catholic rock band: The five band members, in T-shirts, jeans and shorts, some without shoes, some with cigarettes between fingers, drape themselves across cheap plastic, wicker and metal chairs and wooden porch rails outside the two-story home in a working-class […]
It’s Not Unusual … OK, Yes it Is.
By Kevin Eckstrom — August 14, 2006
Please, ladies, no throwing underwear at the pastor during services at the Church of Tom Jones. Pastor Jack Stahl said Jones’s “soulful, spiritual and supernatural” voice helps him contact God. The minister, based in Sacramento, California, uses his music in baptisms, marriages, funerals and exorcisms. “I’m using his voice to get in touch with God […]
RNS Clips: Pope to Discuss Creation, Evolution
By Kevin Eckstrom — August 14, 2006
Stacy Meichtry’s story about the pope’s upcoming roundtable on creation and evolution can be found here. “The seminar, ‘Creation and Evolution,’ is sure to renew the debate between Catholic supporters of ‘intelligent design’-the notion that the world is too complex to have come about through natural events alone-and scientists who don’t regard intelligent design as […]
Missionaries focus on needs at home
By RNS Blog Editor — August 12, 2006
In Friday’s RNS report Charles Honey looks at domestic missionaries working to save dying churches: Half a world away from the country where he served for more than a year as a chaplain with the Army National Guard, the Rev. Tim Mattison sits in a sparsely furnished office at First Baptist Church. His life here […]
