Beliefs
COMMENTARY: Food has the power to nurture the soul
By RNS Blog Editor — January 1, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (UNDATED) Each year at Thanksgiving, the scent of sage-stuffed turkey and cinnamon-spiced pumpkin pie fills my house with the perfume of old memories. Like photographs, these aromas trigger nostalgic images of holidays past. That food has the power to evoke memories seems proof of its magic to feed the soul […]
BODY & SOUL: The best rituals of Christmas are homegrown
By RNS Blog Editor — January 1, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (Body & Soul is a regular column exploring the interplay between spirituality and psychology. Pythia Peay is the author of the forthcoming”Putting America on the Couch,”to be published by Riverhead Books.) UNDATED _ Each Christmas season, the frosty, gilt-edged air brings to mind memories of childhood: my mother’s voice lulling […]
COMMENTARY: Food has the power to nurture the soul
By RNS Blog Editor — January 1, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (UNDATED) Each year at Thanksgiving, the scent of sage-stuffed turkey and cinnamon-spiced pumpkin pie fills my house with the perfume of old memories. Like photographs, these aromas trigger nostalgic images of holidays past. That food has the power to evoke memories seems proof of its magic to feed the soul […]
BODY & SOUL: Power can be a vice or a virtue
By RNS Blog Editor — January 1, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (Body & Soul is a regular column exploring the interplay between spirituality and psychology. Pythia Peay is the author of”Putting America on the Couch,”to be published by Riverhead Books in 1997.) (UNDATED) As Americans prepare to vote in the upcoming presidential election, they will be exercising their power as citizens […]
NEWS FEATURE: Ditka and his Saints are in throes of religious awakening
By RNS Blog Editor — January 1, 1996
c. 1997 Religion News Service NEW ORLEANS _ Choked with emotion, Mike Ditka rested his hand over his heart and took a deep breath. “God puts people in places for a reason,” Ditka said. “Gang, I had no intention to coach again. I’m here because it’s his will.” It was May 3, less than four […]
BODY & SOUL: Meet the new year by coming together in prayer
By RNS Blog Editor — January 1, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (Body & Soul is a regular column exploring the interplay between spirituality and psychology. Pythia Peay is the author of the forthcoming”Putting America on the Couch,”to be published by Riverhead Books.) UNDATED _ The year will soon be over and a new one is waiting to be born. Such times […]
Tips on how to shop with a conscience
By RNS Blog Editor — January 1, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service UNDATED _ Worried that your child’s toys or that fashionable sweater might be made in a sweatshop? Here are some tips from the experts on how to be ethically aware as you shop: Reward the leaders Observers agree that the pioneers include Levi Strauss and Co., which became the first […]
RNS Daily Digest
By Carl Anderson — January 1, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service Aid groups urge U.S. action on Zaire crisis (RNS) Alarmed by the possibility that continuing inaction could lead to the deaths of thousands of refugees in eastern Zaire, a group of 18 U.S. aid agencies is urging the United States to take steps to help resolve the crisis _ including […]
CRECHE CULTURE: Manger scenes tell more than just the Christmas story
By RNS Blog Editor — January 1, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service UNDATED _ The scene might be the ruins of an old castle or an ancient temple. Sometimes it’s a village, bustling with activity. It could be a cave, or a rich landscape of mountains and rivers and stars. At other times, it’s a simple barn. No matter how it’s depicted, […]
Archbishop Oscar H. Lipscomb: A life in the church
By Karen Long — January 1, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service _ Born: 1931 in Mobile. _ Education: St. Patrick’s Catholic School; McGill Institute; St. Bernard College in Cullman, Ala.; North American College, Rome; Gregorian University, Rome; M.A. and Ph.D. in history from Catholic University, Washington. – Ordained: Rome, July 15, 1956 – Installed as archbishop in Mobile: Nov. 16, 1980 […]
TOP STORY: PROFILE: Mobile archbishop takes on the search for Catholic `common ground’
By Karen Long — January 1, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service MOBILE, Ala. _ Priestly celibacy. Gay rights. Feminism. Birth control. Liberation theology. Welfare reform. In vitro fertilization. Euthanasia. These are some of the issues that the late Cardinal Joseph Bernardin said were fragmenting the Catholic church and endangering its mission. Just three months before his death Nov. 14, Bernardin formed […]
TOP STORY: MINISTRY OF MARY: Visions of Mary inspire faith and skepticism
By RNS Blog Editor — January 1, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service EATON TOWNSHIP, Ohio _ The pilgrimage began two years ago, when a handful of Catholics stopped their car to pray. Maureen Sweeney, a member of the nondenominational Missionary Servants of Holy Love, said the Virgin Mary spoke to her, as she had hundreds of times before. The message that day […]
Little evidence exists that Jesus was born in Nativity Cave
By Kim Lawton — January 1, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service “Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth, into Judea, unto the city of David, which is called Bethlehem; … and (Mary) brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger because there was no room for them […]
ESSAY: GOD AND THE BIG BANG: As time goes by, neither God nor the Big Bang are far away
By RNS Blog Editor — January 1, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service UNDATED _ If, for Jews, Jesus was not the Messiah, then who is? Is the Messiah a being, a divine hero coming to redeem us from alienation and mortality? This illusion is the corollary of an even more fundamental illusion: Someone out there has it all planned out. Maybe, as […]
God and the 105th Congress: Religious activists set their agendas
By Kim Lawton — January 1, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service UNDATED _ As the 105th session of Congress convenes Jan. 7, political activists of all stripes are readying for another contentious year, and religious groups _ liberal, moderate and conservative _ will be included in the fray. Here, in capsule form, are the major issues of concern to religious groups: […]
