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Benedict: The Church First
By RNS Blog Editor — February 2, 2006
A Pope Focused on Changing His Church, Not the World RNS Vatican correspondent Stacy Meichtry examines Pope Benedict’s first nine months, and finds that “it’s apparent Benedict is not out to change the world. He’s out to change his church.” For more, click the link above for the RNS full-text article of the week. Quote: […]
Vatican Gay Ban: Now Official
By RNS Blog Editor — December 1, 2005
The Vatican has now officially published its much-leaked guidelines banning openly gay priests. See our full text article of the week, here. Some key quotes: “Critics have claimed that the widely leaked document’s ban on men with “deep-seated homosexual tendencies” is too ambiguous for local Catholic officials to effectively screen the sexual orientations of priestly […]
Sikhs take on discrimination; Update on Vatican and Israel’s property dispute; New OrleansR
By RNS Blog Editor — November 19, 2005
Friday’s RNS report begins with an article on a new campaign launched by Sikhs in response to the increasing discrimination they’ve faced since Sept. 11. Kabuika Kamunga writes: “A number of Sikh-American groups have begun a campaign to explain their religion to the American public and to differentiate their beliefs from those of Muslims. There […]
NEWS STORY: Pope John Paul II, Leader of World’s 1 Billion Roman Catholics, Is Dead at 84
By RNS Blog Editor — April 3, 2005
c. 2005 Religion News Service VATICAN CITY _ John Paul II, the Polish-born pope whose strong-willed activist papacy helped unravel the Soviet Union and redefined the office's relationship to the world as he led the billion-member Catholic Church, died Saturday (April 2) at the age of 84. John Paul's death ended a pontificate of more […]
NEWS STORY: RNS-IMPEACH-ROBERTSON: Robertson: Clinton’s speech ends impeachment threat
By RNS Blog Editor — January 1, 2000
WASHINGTON _ Religious broadcaster Pat Robertson, a harsh critic of President Clinton who has long called for his removal from office, said Wednesday that Clinton”hit a home run”with his State of the Union address and that”as far as I’m concerned, the matter of impeachment is over.”By Ira Rifkin. 500 words. ATTENTION RELIGION EDITORS, POLITICAL EDITORS, […]
NEWS STORY: Pope leaves St. Louis, calls millennium a time for ‘‘spiritual renewal’
By Ira Rifkin — January 1, 1999
c. 1999 Religion News Service ST. LOUIS _ Pope John Paul II said goodbye to this city _ and perhaps for the last time to the United States _ returning to Rome Wednesday (Jan. 27) after telling 100,000 Catholics gathered for the largest indoor Mass ever to look toward the millennium as a time for […]
White American converts to Islam a growing minority
By Ira Rifkin — December 9, 1998
c. 1998 Religion News Service UNDATED _ Ismail Royer remembers the sunny fall afternoon seven years ago when a songbird heard in a suburban St. Louis park transformed him from a lapsed Catholic into a believing Muslim. Royer heard the sound that changed his life as he and a Muslim friend sat in Manchester Park […]
NEWS SIDEBAR: New York rabbi energetically aids Polish Jews
By Chris Smith — September 1, 1998
c. 1998 Religion News Service RYCHWALD, Poland _”Can’t you see I’m busy?”Rabbi Michael Schudrich shouted with mock alarm. He was actually busy filling a squirt gun before diving back into battle with young people at the summer camp here for Jews exploring their identities. In a CD-ROM dictionary, a video clip of Schudrich could illustrate […]
NEWS SIDEBAR: Some advice on raising sensitive sons
By RNS Blog Editor — May 5, 1998
c. 1998 Religion News Service UNDATED _”My mother has given me life and love. I am flesh of her flesh, bone of her bone. I was born of her body, linked to her by nature. Thus, is she not my Adam, am I not her Eve?” With these poetic words, Ariel Chesler introduces his mother’s […]
NEWS SIDEBAR: Text of proposed amendment on religious expression
By RNS Blog Editor — January 1, 1998
c. 1998 Religion News Service WASHINGTON _ Here is the text of the proposed Religious Freedom Amendment to the Constitution as proposed by Rep. Ernest Istook, R-Okla.: To secure the people’s right to acknowledge God according to the dictates of conscience: Neither the United States nor any state shall establish any official religion, but the […]
NEWS SIDEBAR: Some memorable, troublesome years for the March for Life
By RNS Blog Editor — January 1, 1998
c. 1998 Religion News Service WASHINGTON _ In 24 years, the March for Life, the annual anti-abortion demonstration some say is one of the longest continuous protest in U.S. history, has had its memorable moments, including a couple of near-mortal blows _ one inflicted by weather, the other by war. But for Nellie Gray, the […]
NEWS SIDEBAR: Heston’s `Moses PAC’ finds fertile ground in Alabama
By Kevin Hardy — January 1, 1998
c. 1998 Religion News Service WASHINGTON _ “Moses” visited Alabama _ site of a fierce political struggle over the Ten Commandments _ at least twice last year and lo, a sea of checkbooks opened and $48,800 rolled into the conservative coffers of Arena PAC. Arena PAC, nicknamed Moses PAC, is the political action committee started […]
NEWS SIDEBAR: Some films about preachers as con artists, hypocrites
By Steve Rabey — January 1, 1998
c. 1998 Religion News Service UNDATED _”The Apostle”may be Hollywood’s first warm, positive portrayal of a Pentecostal evangelist in decades. Meanwhile, in the past five years Tinsel Town has produced three moving portrayals of the beauty of Buddhism (“Kundun,””Seven Years in Tibet,”and”Little Buddha”). What gives? Veteran actor Robert Duvall says simply,”Hollywood doesn’t understand the subject […]
NEWS SIDEBAR: Reporter encounters risky rewards in covering church in Philadelphia
By RNS Blog Editor — January 1, 1998
c. 1998 National Catholic Reporter UNDATED _ Ralph Cipriano, The Philadelphia Inquirer reporter responsible for the article on Cardinal Anthony Bevilacqua and the Philadelphia archdiocese, began covering religion at the paper in 1991. Although the Inquirer has a national reputation as a crusader _ it has won 18 Pulitzer Prizes since 1975 _ editors are […]
FEATURE SIDEBAR: A sampler of films about love and the afterlife
By Steve Rabey — January 1, 1998
c. 1998 Religion News Service UNDATED _ Romantic love has played an important role in many films about the afterlife, including: _ Ghost (1990): In the year’s top grossing film, Sam (Patrick Swayze) may be separated from girlfriend Molly (Demi Moore) in body, but thanks to medium Whoopi Goldberg, the Righteous Brothers and some sensual […]
