David Finnigan
David Finnigan is an author at Religion News Service.
All Stories by David Finnigan
NEWS STORY: Cardinal Mahony, Mother Angelica in flap over liturgical changes
By David Finnigan — January 1, 1997
c. 1997 Religion News Service LOS ANGELES _ Roman Catholic Cardinal Roger Mahony’s effort to introduce changes in the way Mass is celebrated in his Archdiocese of Los Angeles has drawn the fire of influential traditionalist nun Mother Angelica, who is urging Southern California Catholics to disobey Mahony on the matter. The criticism has led […]
NEWS ANALYSIS: Meetings give glimpse of approved, unapproved Catholic life
By David Finnigan — January 1, 1997
c. 1997 Religion News Service LOS ANGELES _ What is and what is not endorsed by a huge Catholic archdiocese provides insight into the dynamics of U.S. Roman Catholic life and the diversity _ traditional and liberal, obedient and dissenting _ at the center and margins of the church. Four recent meetings in the Los […]
NEWS FEATURE: Christian homeschool advocates prefer going it alone
By David Finnigan — January 1, 1997
c. 1997 Religion News Service ANAHEIM, Calif. _ Mary Schofield was adamant.”We don’t believe that God instructed us to have someone else raise our children,”said Schofield, a conservative, non-denominational Protestant who homeschools her three children in Placerville, Calif.”It’s not that we want to be removed from society. The (public) schools are not doing a great […]
NEWS STORY: Cardinal Mahony urges Catholics to find `common ground’
By David Finnigan — January 1, 1997
c. 1997 Religion News Service ANAHEIM, Calif. _ Roman Catholic Cardinal Roger Mahony of Los Angeles has given a strong endorsement to the late Cardinal Joseph L. Bernardin’s Common Ground project, telling 10,000 Catholics they must work to end divisions.”One of his (Bernardin) concerns and one that I share deeply, is the polarization within the […]
NEWS FEATURE: Wiley Drake: portrait of a pragmatic fundamentalist
By David Finnigan — January 1, 1997
c. 1997 Religion News Service BUENA PARK, Calif. _ Cancer _ in the form of the homeless and dying Peter Maniaci _ is literally on the parking lot of the church of Wiley Drake, a Southern Baptist preacher known and criticized for his anti-Disney boycotting by day and crusading on behalf of the homeless by […]
NEWS FEATURE: America’s top sculptor links biblical, modern themes
By David Finnigan — January 1, 1997
c. 1997 Religion News Service LOS ANGELES _ The faces on George Segal’s five sculpture-environments now on display at the Skirball Cultural Center and Museum are anonymous, even generic; the clothes are contemporary yet the subject matter is biblical _ an artist’s meditation on the emotional and thematic links between the ancient and modern.”All the […]
NEWS FEATURE: Children of Holocaust survivors remember and weep
By David Finnigan — May 23, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service BURBANK, Calif. (RNS)-Adolf Hitler’s”final solution”focused not only on the physical extermination of Jews, but also on a nightmarish dream to wipe out all trace of Jewish life and culture. At a small hotel gathering here this past weekend (May 17-18) of about 130 Holocaust survivors and their grown children, the […]
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