Carl Anderson
Carl Anderson is an author at Religion News Service.
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NEWS STORY: Catholics draft guidelines for health care labor organizing
By Carl Anderson — January 1, 1999
c. 1999 Religion News Service WASHINGTON _ After nearly two years of quiet, intense and sometimes contentious talks, a unique group of Roman Catholic church officials, Catholic health-care executives, and labor union representatives has issued a working paper aimed at defusing future labor-management conflicts in the growing and volatile Catholic health-care industry.”The working paper is […]
NEWS STORY: Bishops urge `new politics’ for new millennium
By Carl Anderson — January 1, 1999
c. 1999 Religion News Service WASHINGTON _ The country’s Roman Catholic bishops, as they do before every national political campaign, called on the church’s 43 million voting-age Catholics to get involved in politics and, this time, to forge a”new politics for the new millennium.””The next millennium requires a new kind of politics,”the bishops said in […]
NEWS STORY: Lutherans to again consider closer ties with Episcopal Church
By Carl Anderson — January 1, 1999
c. 1999 Religion News Service UNDATED _ Delegates from a deeply divided Evangelical Lutheran Church in America gather next week in Denver to make what denomination leaders call”an enormously momentous decision”on a proposal establishing closer ties with the Episcopal Church. For Lutherans, who pride themselves on their theological seriousness, the issue of”full communion”and the accompanying […]
NEWS STORY: NCC takes stock amid celebrations to mark 50th anniversary
By Carl Anderson — January 1, 1999
c. 1999 Religion News Service CLEVELAND _ Representatives of the 35 member denominations of the National Council of Churches, the nation’s premier ecumenical organization, are gathering here to celebrate the group’s 50th anniversary. But the celebration, which formally begins Tuesday (Nov. 9) with a scheduled luncheon address by retired South African Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu, […]
NEWS STORY: New NCC general secretary calls agency `35-hump camel’
By Carl Anderson — January 1, 1999
c. 1999 Religion News Service CLEVELAND _ The nominee to be the new general secretary of the National Council of Churches has some harsh words for the nation’s leading ecumenical agency, calling it a”35-hump camel”_ a reference to its 35 member denominations. Addressing the NCC’s organizational problems, the Rev. Bob Edgar, a United Methodist who […]
NEWS STORY: Humanists: Reject fundamentalism, postmodernism for planetary ethic
By Carl Anderson — January 1, 1999
c. 1999 Religion News Service (UNDATED) _ More than 100 academics and intellectuals, rejecting the irrationalism of the right’s fundamentalism and the left’s postmodernism, have called on humanity to “embrace its adulthood” and “leave behind the magical thinking and myth-making that are substitutes for tested knowledge of nature.” The call comes in a new statement, […]
NEWS STORY: Church council begins radical restructuring, backs public education
By Carl Anderson — January 1, 1999
c. 1999 Religion News Service CLEVELAND _ The National Council of Churches, facing one of the worst financial and management crises in its 50-year history, agreed Thursday (Nov. 11) to begin a radical restructuring of the agency that could see the country’s leading ecumenical agency trim its staff by as much as a third. Many […]
NEWS STORY: New NCC general secretary calls agency `35-hump camel’
By Carl Anderson — January 1, 1999
c. 1999 Religion News Service CLEVELAND _ The nominee to be the new general secretary of the National Council of Churches has some harsh words for the nation’s leading ecumenical agency, calling it a “35-hump camel” _ a reference to its 35 member denominations. Addressing the NCC’s organizational problems, the Rev. Bob Edgar, a United […]
NEWS FEATURE: After 20 years, John Paul II’s mixed legacy for the church
By Carl Anderson — October 10, 1998
c. 1998 Religion News Service UNDATED _ When the white smoke rose over the Vatican 20 years ago, few, even among the 111 cardinals casting votes, knew what sort of man they were choosing when on Oct. 16, 1978 they broke with more than 450 years of tradition and named Karol Wojtyla, archbishop of Krakow, […]
NEWS STORY: Lutherans agree to lift anti-Catholic condemnations
By Carl Anderson — June 19, 1998
c. 1998 Religion News Service UNDATED _ The Lutheran World Federation, in an historic vote aimed at healing a 450-year-old rift with the Roman Catholic Church, has voted to lift the Reformation-era condemnations and anathemas Martin Luther and other Reformers hurled at the pope and Catholicism. Meeting in Geneva, the LWF Council _ the governing […]
NEWS ANALYSIS: Prayer votes shows strengths, limits of religious right’s political clout
By Carl Anderson — June 12, 1998
c. 1998 Religion News Service WASHINGTON _ The fax machines of the legions of religious right groups that steadily churn out reaction and opinion on virtually every twist of inside-the-beltway policymaking were eerily quiet in the hours following Thursday’s legislative rebuke of one of conservatism’s most cherished political goals _ a constitutional amendment to rework […]
NEWS ANALYSIS: Bishops thread narrow needle in defining women’s role in the church
By Carl Anderson — January 1, 1998
c. 1998 Religion News Service WASHINGTON _ In two separate statements released by two different committees, the U.S. Roman Catholic bishops this past week sought to thread the narrow needle of promoting an increased role for women in the church while remaining loyal to the Vatican’s insistence that a key church position _ the ordained […]
NEWS FEATURE: Religious official sees signs of hope, distress in North Korea
By Carl Anderson — January 1, 1998
c. 1998 Religion News Service WASHINGTON _ Like North Korea, the country in which he finds himself now living, Erich Weingartner finds himself tugged between hope and distress. Despite a food crisis that has plagued North Korea and its 23 million people for three years of crop-destroying floods, a severely damaged agricultural and transportation infrastructure […]
NEWS STORY: Religious activists gear up for fall election campaign
By Carl Anderson — January 1, 1998
c. 1998 Religion News Service WASHINGTON _ Religious leaders and political activists from across the theological and ideological spectrum opened their versions of the fall election campaign Wednesday (Sept. 16) with a series of events that could not escape the climate of moral urgency hanging over the nation’s capital. In a series of speeches, forums […]
NEWS STORY: House panel approves `religious expression’ constitutional amendment
By Carl Anderson — January 1, 1998
c. 1998 Religion News Service WASHINGTON _ The House Judiciary Committee, giving religious conservatives a long-sought victory, has approved a proposal to amend the Constitution to protect”the people’s right to pray and to recognize their religious beliefs, heritage, or traditions on public property.” The amendment would also, for the first time, put the word God […]
