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NEWS ANALYSIS: Cardinals Choose the Platform, Then Elect the Candidate
By By David Gibson — April 3, 2005
c. 2005 Beliefnet (UNDATED) The first thing you need to know in handicapping the election of the next pope is that anyone who says he knows who will be chosen doesn’t know what he’s talking about. The second thing you need to know is that anyone who wants the job doesn’t know what he’s talking […]
NEWS ANALYSIS: Pope Leaves Church a Theology of Apology
By By David Gibson — April 3, 2005
c. 2005 Religion News Service (UNDATED) Pope John Paul II launched an unprecedented “examination of conscience,'' culminating in a sweeping mea culpa on the first Sunday in the first Lent of Christianity's third millennium. “In this year of mercy the Church, strong in the holiness which she receives from her Lord, should kneel before God […]
NEWS ANALYSIS: Religion Played Unprecedented Role in Election
By By David Gibson — November 9, 2004
c. 2004 Religion News Service (UNDATED) The 2004 presidential campaign will go down in history as one in which Democrats and Republicans battled tooth and nail while God ran unopposed. Never before has religion played such a central role in American presidential politics, as both President Bush and Sen. John Kerry sought to wrap themselves […]
COMMENTARY: Near-Future of Catholicism in America Is a Close Call
By By David Gibson — January 1, 2003
c. 2003 Religion News Service (David Gibson, former religion writer for The Star-Ledger of Newark, N.J., is author of “The Coming Catholic Church” (HarperSanFrancisco), to be published June 30.) (UNDATED) More than a year after the Catholic hierarchy gathered in Dallas to try to head off the galloping clergy sexual abuse scandal, and in the […]
COMMENTARY: Near-Future of Catholicism in America Is a Close Call
By By David Gibson — January 1, 2003
c. 2003 Religion News Service (David Gibson, former religion writer for The Star-Ledger of Newark, N.J., is author of “The Coming Catholic Church” (HarperSanFrancisco), to be published June 30.) (UNDATED) More than a year after the Catholic hierarchy gathered in Dallas to try to head off the galloping clergy sexual abuse scandal, and in the […]
NEWS STORY: An Uneasy Celebrity for Victims of Church Scandal
By By David Gibson — January 1, 2003
c. 2003 Religion News Service (UNDATED) A year ago, Barbara Blaine and David Clohessy would have been unlikely entrants to the ranks of pop celebrity. As children, they were sexually abused by priests _ hardly a mediagenic role, or even an easy topic of conversation. While they defiantly called themselves “survivors” rather than “victims,” they […]
NEWS STORY: Congressman Criticized for Links to `Islamophobes’
By By David Gibson — September 29, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service NEWARK, N.J. _ A New Jersey congressman who is a leading critic of the persecution of Christians abroad is coming under fire for his ties to a lobby that espouses anti-Muslim rhetoric as part of its campaign to highlight violence against Christians, especially in Islamic countries. The Council of American-Islamic […]
NEWS STORY: Congressman Criticized for Links to `Islamophobes’
By By David Gibson — September 29, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service NEWARK, N.J. _ A New Jersey congressman who is a leading critic of the persecution of Christians abroad is coming under fire for his ties to a lobby that espouses anti-Muslim rhetoric as part of its campaign to highlight violence against Christians, especially in Islamic countries. The Council of American-Islamic […]
NEWS STORY: GOP Jews Say They Feel at Home Despite Christian Emphasis
By By David Gibson — August 2, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service PHILADELPHIA _ For a long time, Jewish Republicans were to electoral politics what the quark was to particle physics: They existed in theory but no one had really seen one. Or, as one lonely Jewish Republican said a few years ago, all the Jewish Republicans in the country would fit […]
NEWS STORY: GOP Jews Say They Feel at Home Despite Christian Emphasis
By By David Gibson — August 2, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service PHILADELPHIA _ For a long time, Jewish Republicans were to electoral politics what the quark was to particle physics: They existed in theory but no one had really seen one. Or, as one lonely Jewish Republican said a few years ago, all the Jewish Republicans in the country would fit […]
NEWS FEATURE: Analysis: Assessing the Future Shape of Christianity
By By David Gibson — January 12, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service UNDATED _ Given that the world did not end in a spectacular Y2K or an apocalyptic Second Coming and that Jan. 18 marks the beginning of the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, it may be a good time to ask: In Christianity’s third millennium, what will Christianity in America […]
NEWS FEATURE: Analysis: Assessing the Future Shape of Christianity
By By David Gibson — January 12, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service UNDATED _ Given that the world did not end in a spectacular Y2K or an apocalyptic Second Coming and that Jan. 18 marks the beginning of the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, it may be a good time to ask: In Christianity’s third millennium, what will Christianity in America […]
NEWS FEATURE: America’s Favorite Unopened Text: The Bible
By By David Gibson — January 1, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service (UNDATED) About 92 percent of Americans own at least one, and the average household has three. Two-thirds say it holds the answers to the basic questions of life, and the next president _ whoever he is _ will take a solemn oath on it, eventually. It is the Bible, also […]
NEWS FEATURE: Christians Learning to Say They’re Sorry
By By David Gibson — January 1, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service (UNDATED) Even if Jesus’ followers over the centuries have heeded his advice only imperfectly, one of his central teachings on human relations can be boiled down to one word: forgiveness. How many times must we forgive, Jesus was asked? Seventy times seven, he answered, a figure meant to be virtually […]
NEWS FEATURE: Christian Coalition: Missing in Action?
By By David Gibson — January 1, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. _ He may be the prime suspect in the death of the religious right, but Pat Robertson isn’t about to let all the accusations _ much less a guilty conscience _ keep him up at night. “The Bible says, `If a man’s ways please the Lord, he […]
