William Bole
William Bole is an author at Religion News Service.
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NEWS FEATURE: Catholic hospitals face union, bottom-line tensions
By William Bole — July 27, 1999
c. 1999 Religion News Service CHICAGO _ A hospital with a name like”St. John’s”may conjure up images of a peaceful, prayerful place where the healing is more than physical. Serenity, though, has lately been in short supply in the fiercely competitive business of health care. Even religious institutions find themselves bowing to the bottom line. […]
NEWS FEATURE: New biography takes a different look at Pope John Paul II
By William Bole — January 1, 1999
c. 1999 Religion News Service UNDATED _ Three months before the papal visit to Cuba early last year, Fidel Castro was showing little desire to give Pope John Paul II the red-carpet treatment. Then a Vatican envoy brought a very personal message to the Cuban president, saying the pope was praying daily he find his […]
NEWS FEATURE: Chautauqua _ continuing the tradition of the spiritually edifying vacation
By William Bole — January 1, 1999
c. 1999 Religion News Service UNDATED _ Over a century ago, a nationally known Methodist cleric admonished Americans not to”make vacations a time of irreverence or of religious indifference,”but rather to devote their leisure to both faith and fun _ and learning, too. Many followed the advice of the Rev. John Vincent, later Bishop Vincent. […]
NEWS FEATURE: Catholic Church wrestles with its past as it opposes death penalty
By William Bole — January 1, 1999
c. 1999 Religion News Service UNDATED _ By most accounts, Missouri’s Supreme Court justices had their eyes peeled on Pope John Paul II when they postponed an execution originally scheduled for Jan. 27 _ during the pope’s visit to St. Louis. The announcement in November again raised attention to what has become a papal crusade […]
NEWS FEATURE: Catholic hospitals struggle with new controversies over charity care
By William Bole — January 1, 1999
c. 1999 Religion News Service UNDATED _ Already jarred by controversies over the availability of birth control and abortion, the nation’s Roman Catholic hospitals are facing a more unsettling question: Have they strayed from their mission to serve the needy? Keeping pace with the mergers-and-acquisitions trend in the health-care industry, many Catholic hospitals have taken […]
NEWS FEATURE: Catholic program aims at `real’ welfare reform _ good jobs
By William Bole — January 1, 1999
c. 1999 Religion News Service MANCHESTER, N.H. (RNS) _ Melisa Guyotte is a young, single mother who has traded a welfare check for a paycheck _ and premium benefits. She doesn’t know the Rev. Robert J. Vitillo, but she is an answer to his prayers. The priest, who runs a national Catholic social agency in […]
NEWS FEATURE: Religious activists _ doing the government’s job protecting workers
By William Bole — January 1, 1999
c. 1999 Religion News Service CHICAGO _ In a cluster of cubicles here, some well-trained functionaries are grinding out manuals on government regulations in the workplace and monitoring conditions in sweatshops. But this isn’t a branch of the U.S. Department of Labor or some other regulatory agency. And the people staring at the computer screens […]
NEWS FEATURE: `Just-war’ theory went AWOL in Kosovo conflict
By William Bole — January 1, 1999
c. 1999 Religion News Service UNDATED _ On the morning when the first bombs dropped, a call came from the White House for Robert Royal, a scholar in Washington who studies the ethics of war and peace. As Royal relates, the midlevel official asked,”Could we just go through this one more time?” What they rehashed […]
NEWS PROFILE: Pastor named as envoy to Tanzania wants a diplomacy of hope
By William Bole — January 1, 1998
c. 1998 Religion News Service BOSTON _ The Rev. Charles R. Stith is gearing up for a new foreign mission _ not to save souls but to preach the Clinton administration’s gospel of partnership between the United States and Africa. President Clinton has nominated the United Methodist minister and civil rights leader as U.S. ambassador […]
NEWS SIDEBAR: It’s the poorest workers that draw religious support
By William Bole — January 1, 1998
c. 1998 Religion News Service UNDATED _ Observers say the partnership between religion and labor is likely to remain a limited one. They point out that religious activists tend to gravitate to union causes that involve workers who earn poverty-level wages. The Rev. George Higgins, the Roman Catholic Church’s chief liaison to the labor movement, […]
NEWS FEATURE: Union leaders, workers plan Labor Day pulpit blitz
By William Bole — January 1, 1998
c. 1998 Religion News Service UNDATED _ This Labor Day weekend, David Klein will have more on his mind than a backyard barbecue. Klein, a stagehand at a Chicago opera company, is cooking up a sermon he plans to preach in a local church Sunday (Sept. 6). Klein is among the hundreds of workers and […]
NEWS STORY: Millennium meeting explores a history of dashed millennial hopes
By William Bole — January 1, 1998
c. 1998 Religion News Service BOSTON _ David Doter belongs to a small, millennial movement that sees itself ushering in a new age of peace and love, in confident expectation of the Messiah’s return. But during a break at a conference on millennialism here Tuesday (Dec. 8), Doter, 31, was having doubts about his faith. […]
NEWS FEATURE: Common Ground: In song, racial ethnic divide is overcome
By William Bole — January 1, 1997
c. 1997 Religion News Service WESTMINSTER, Md. _ Kim Nichols recalls when she and her younger sisters, Kellie and Krissy, ventured into a black church one fall Sunday in 1994.”It was a life-changing experience,”said Nichols, 23.”It was joyful. It was overwhelming.” It was the hand-clapping, foot-stomping sounds of gospel music that inspired the Nichols Sisters, […]
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