Politics
NEWS STORY: Four churches celebrate full communion
By RNS Blog Editor — January 1, 1998
c. 1998 Religion News Service UNDATED _ With a solemn, yet joyful worship service Sunday (Oct. 4), members of four Protestant traditions celebrated their entry into full communion, promising to live”day by day”into deeper commitment to one another. Some 2,000 people jammed into the Gothic-style Rockefeller Chapel at the University of Chicago for the gala […]
COMMENTARY: Hard-liners put Irish peace process at risk
By RNS Blog Editor — January 1, 1998
c. 1998 Religion News Service (Andrew M. Greeley is a Roman Catholic priest, best-selling novelist and a sociologist at the University of Chicago National Opinion Research Center. Check out his home page at http://www.agreeley.com or contact him via e-mail at agreel(at)aol.com.) DUBLIN _ The Good Friday peace agreement in Northern Ireland is in trouble. How […]
COMMENTARY: On sex and stings, leaks and lies
By RNS Blog Editor — January 1, 1998
c. 1998 Religion News Service (Andrew M. Greeley is a Roman Catholic priest, best-selling novelist and a sociologist at the University of Chicago National Opinion Research Center. Check out his home page at http://www.agreeley.com or contact him via e-mail at agreel(at)aol.com.) UNDATED _ The media call them stings or scams. In fact, they are lies. […]
NEWS FEATURE: Looted cemetery artifacts new chic decorating rage
By James Varney — January 1, 1998
c. 1998 Religion News Service LOS ANGELES _ In a handful of chic West Hollywood boutiques, artifacts that once graced New Orleans’ famous cemeteries are all the rage. “A lot of New Orleans stuff winds up here,” said Phillip Leiaghat, owner of Pom-Pom. “People in L.A. die for this stuff.” People in New Orleans, of […]
NEWS SIDEBAR: Cultivating mysticism in everyday life
By RNS Blog Editor — January 1, 1998
c. 1998 Religion News Service UNDATED _ Simply put, a mystical experience is a direct inner realization of the Divine. This may be manifest as powerful feelings of a sacred, invisible presence; visions of light and otherworldly figures such as angels or saints; voices of wisdom, or sublime emotions of love, peace and bliss. As […]
COMMENTARY: No impeachment coming
By RNS Blog Editor — January 1, 1998
c. 1998 Religion News Service (Andrew M. Greeley is a Roman Catholic priest, best-selling novelist and a sociologist at the University of Chicago National Opinion Research Center. Check out his home page at http://www.agreeley.com or contact him via e-mail at agreel(at)aol.com.) UNDATED _ After the media orgy last weekend about”Judge”Starr’s salacious report and the minimal […]
Salvadoran generals tied to murders of church workers land in U.S.
By Tony Evans — January 1, 1998
c. 1998 Religion News Service (UNDATED) As Jim Kazel says, “The worst gets worse.” The worst is the Dec. 2, 1980, murder in El Salvador of Kazel’s sister Dorothy, an Ursuline nun who was 41 when she died. Murdered with her were her friend Jean Donovan, 27, a Catholic lay worker, and Maryknoll nuns Ita […]
NEWS FEATURE: Muslim women fighting religious, gender stereotypes
By RNS Blog Editor — January 1, 1998
c. 1998 Religion News Service METAIRIE, La. _ One day in a Metairie supermarket Amal Ben Srieti noticed a man gawking at her hijab, the head covering common among women in her native Libya. “I stared back at him,” she said. “He said, `Women in your country don’t raise their eyes.’ I said, `People in […]
NEWS FEATURE: Poetic pilgrim: the spiritual journey of Kathleen Norris
By Steve Rabey — January 1, 1998
c. 1998 Religion News Service UNDATED _ Since the 1960s, pilgrims seeking an authentic spiritual path have often looked beyond the Christian faith of their fathers to the esoterica of the New Age, the mysticism of Eastern religions, or the allure of new-fangled cults. Kathleen Norris abandoned the Protestant pieties of her childhood for the […]
COMMENTARY: The heart of the Edith Stein matter
By RNS Blog Editor — January 1, 1998
c. 1998 Religion News Service (Andrew M. Greeley is a Roman Catholic priest, best-selling novelist and a sociologist at the University of Chicago National Opinion Research Center. Check out his home page at http://www.agreeley.com or contact him via e-mail at agreel(at)aol.com.) UNDATED _ Can a person be Jewish and Christian at the same time; can […]
NEWS FEATURE: Religion inflames war in Sudan
By RNS Blog Editor — January 1, 1998
c. 1998 Religion News Service AWEIL, Sudan _ Geng Kuack Athiang lost a childhood of playing in the trees with friends when soldiers on horseback stormed into his village and captured him. He says he was sent into slavery and given an Islamic name. Achol Deng Ngong lost her innocence after a similar attack on […]
NEWS FEATURE: Mixing dollars with the divine in gospel music industy
By Julia Lieblich — January 1, 1998
c. 1998 Religion News Service NASHVILLE, Tenn. _ Seventeen-year-old Candi Pearson stood in the lobby of the Renaissance Hotel late last month and stared unabashedly at the performers. “He’s awesome,” she said as a hunky guy with spiked hair got off the elevator. She didn’t remember the name of a bleached-blond singer in 4-inch platforms, […]
NEWS STORY: Churches gear up for day of prayer for persecuted Christians
By RNS Blog Editor — January 1, 1998
c. 1998 Religion News Service UNDATED _ Steven Haas says some 300 million Christians around the globe face the possibility of serious discrimination”simply for trying to be what they are”in nations where governments or religious majorities are hostile toward them. Haas admits his numbers are mere estimates drawn from State Department and other reports on […]
COMMENTARY: What is a lie?
By RNS Blog Editor — January 1, 1998
c. 1998 Religion News Service (Andrew M. Greeley is a Roman Catholic priest, best-selling novelist and a sociologist at the University of Chicago National Opinion Research Center. Check out his home page at http://www.agreeley.com or contact him via e-mail at agreel(at)aol.com.) UNDATED _ Let us consider four cases: 1. You are a Dutch teenager during […]
NEWS FEATURE: Critics question why United States is getting involved
By RNS Blog Editor — January 1, 1998
c. 1998 Religion News Service BEIJING _ Ying Mulan, who also goes by the name Sister Angela Theresa, wears a cream blouse and habit. Sitting in a pew in South Cathedral, one of six government-sanctioned Catholic churches in Beijing, she speaks firmly when asked what she thinks about American worries of persecution in China. “America […]
