Politics
NEWS FEATURE: Celibacy contributes to shrinking numbers of nuns
By Alan Chambers — January 1, 1998
c. 1998 Religion News Service JERSEY CITY, N.J. _ The older nuns at Sacred Heart Roman Catholic Church, which stands like an ancient fortress on a tough street here, remember the 1940s, when 1,200 Irish children packed the classrooms of the adjacent elementary school. In those days, every teacher was a nun in black habit. […]
NEWS FEATURE: Clinton scandal forced nation to consider moral values during 1998
By RNS Blog Editor — January 1, 1998
c. 1998 Religion News Service UNDATED _ President Clinton’s own attorneys called his extramarital relationship with Monica Lewinsky”sinful.”Insisting the president’s conduct warranted his ouster, religious broadcaster Pat Robertson said the”lamb of God is also the lion of Judah … his justice still remains firm.” And even as they argued against Clinton’s impeachment, a group of […]
NEWS STORY: Religious experts, groups express dismay at cloning
By Julie Wolfe — January 1, 1998
c. 1998 Religion News Service UNDATED _ Unlike many religious leaders, the Rev. Ted Peters doesn’t believe cloning is”a threat to human identity”or that it”violates God’s sacred plan for baby-making.” Yet Peters, a Lutheran minister and a research associate with the Berkeley, Calif.-based Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences, joins church groups and other […]
NEWS DIGEST: Daily News Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — January 1, 1998
c. 1998 Religion News Service Octuplets’ birth prompts ethical questions (RNS) The birth of octuplets in Houston has prompted new ethical questions concerning the use of fertility drugs. As the staff of Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston continued to care for the eight tiny babies, most of whom were born Sunday (Dec. 20), experts wondered […]
NEWS FEATURE: Celibacy contributes to shrinking numbers of nuns
By Alan Chambers — January 1, 1998
c. 1998 Religion News Service JERSEY CITY, N.J. _ The older nuns at Sacred Heart Roman Catholic Church, which stands like an ancient fortress on a tough street here, remember the 1940s, when 1,200 Irish children packed the classrooms of the adjacent elementary school. In those days, every teacher was a nun in black habit. […]
NEWS STORY: Prominent Orthodox Jewish leader Moshe Sherer dies
By Ira Rifkin — January 1, 1998
c. 1998 Religion News Service UNDATED _ Rabbi Moshe Sherer, a leading figure within Orthodox Judaism who for the past 35 years served as president of Agudath Israel of America, has died from complications of leukemia. He was 76. Sherer was buried Monday (May 18) _ one day after his death in New York _ […]
NEWS FEATURE: Paxnet will offer viewers alternative to televised sex and violence
By Steve Rabey — January 1, 1998
c. 1998 Religion News Service UNDATED _ Viewers who are fed up with televised sex, violence and crudity will have a new alternative this fall when PAX TV, the nation’s seventh national network, launches its slate of”pro-family”programming at noon on Monday, August 31. Network founder Lowell”Bud”Paxson has been buying up broadcast rights to popular shows […]
NEWS FEATURE: A quiet revolution lifts role of women in Catholic Church
By Alan Chambers — January 1, 1998
c. 1998 Newhouse News Service EDGEWATER, N.J. _ Most Sundays you can find Ana Lopo at Holy Rosary Church here, reading the Gospel in Spanish as a lector, offering the communion host to parishioners or worshipping in the pews. Lopo, a Cuban immigrant and public relations executive who serves part-time as a volunteer Eucharistic minister, […]
NEWS FEATURE: In some churches, the language of Jesus is still alive
By Greg Garrison — January 1, 1998
c. 1998 Religion News Service BIRMINGHAM, Ala. _ To many, it may seem as dead as Latin, but Aramaic _ the language Jesus spoke _ is alive every weekend at St. Elias Maronite Church here and in communities across the nation from San Diego, Calif., to Yonkers, N.Y. “It’s as close as we can get […]
NEWS FEATURE: Christian presence dwindling in Holy Land
By Alan Chambers — January 1, 1998
c. 1998 Religion News Service JERUSALEM _ Candles lit the darkness of the Syrian Orthodox Convent of St. Mark, built in 70 A.D., as roughly 200 worshippers packing the pews, crowding the aisle and cramming the altar as they prayed in the rhythmic Aramaic language of the first Christians. Metropolitan Mar Sewerios Malki Murad, patriarch […]
NEWS STORY: U.S. missionaries among casualties of Mitch aftermath
By RNS Blog Editor — January 1, 1998
c. 1998 Religion News Service UNDATED _ Remnants of Hurricane Mitch, the deadly storm that swept through Central America over the weekend, are being pointed to as a possible cause for a plane crash in western Guatemala that killed 11 people, including 10 American missionaries and a Guatemalan pilot. Seven other Americans injured in the […]
COMMENTARY: Granddaddy Fred’s legacy: Once a thing is done, it cannot be undone
By RNS Blog Editor — January 1, 1998
c. 1998 Religion News Service UNDATED _ When I was 9, my family and I traveled to Chicago to visit my maternal grandfather during the Christmas season of 1966. This was to be no ordinary trip, for my grandfather was no ordinary man. Small and dapper, with a flourish reminiscent of Harold Nicholas of the […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — January 1, 1998
c. 1998 Religion New Service Aid groups responding to a variety of catastrophes around globe (RNS) While much of America’s attention has been focused on the scandal swirling around President Clinton, America’s religious communities and aid agencies have quietly been responding to a number of natural and man-made catastrophes. While humanitarian agencies are often working […]
NEWS STORY: U.S. team says Guatemala fails in probing slain bishop’s murder
By RNS Blog Editor — January 1, 1998
c. 1998 Religion News Service WASHINGTON _ A team of U.S. investigators, working with the Archdiocese of Guatemala, says the Guatemalan government “does not want a real investigation” into the death of human rights advocate Bishop Juan Jose Gerardi Conedera and is ignoring evidence pointing to military involvement in the slaying. On Thursday (Oct. 8), […]
NEWS FEATURE: Christian presence dwindling in Holy Land
By Alan Chambers — January 1, 1998
c. 1998 Religion News Service JERUSALEM _ Candles lit the darkness of the Syrian Orthodox Convent of St. Mark, built in 70 A.D., as roughly 200 worshippers packing the pews, crowding the aisle and cramming the altar as they prayed in the rhythmic Aramaic language of the first Christians. Metropolitan Mar Sewerios Malki Murad, patriarch […]
