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TOP STORY: DEATH COMES FOR THE ARCHBISHOP: America mourns a quiet cardinal whose life spoke louder t
By Carl Anderson — January 1, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (UNDATED) Cardinal Joseph L. Bernardin, the son of an immigrant seamstress and a stonecutter and became one of the most influential and beloved U.S. Roman Catholic leaders in a century, died Thursday (Nov. 14) after a long but graceful battle with cancer. He was 68. Bernardin, who headed the Archdiocese […]
TOP STORY: BISHOPS END MEETING: Spirit of Bernardin permeates bishops meeting
By Carl Anderson — January 1, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service WASHINGTON _ From an opening prayer as he lay dying, to the meeting’s final debate on a restructuring plan he had overseen, the spirit of the late Cardinal Joseph L. Bernardin hovered over this week’s sessions of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops (NCCB). More than any other of the […]
NEWS STORY: Church, nation bid farewell to Cardinal Joseph L. Bernardin
By Carl Anderson — January 1, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service UNDATED _ The church he loved and the nation whose public policy he sought to influence for a quarter of a century said farewell Wednesday (Nov. 20) to Chicago’s Roman Catholic Cardinal Joseph L. Bernardin. With his friend and colleague Cardinal Roger Mahony of Los Angeles presiding and Vice President […]
NEWS STORY: LUTHERANS AND EPISCOPALIANS: Lutheran and Episcopal bishops thrash out unity proposal
By Carl Anderson — January 1, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service WHITE HAVEN, Pa. _ At a critical moment near the end of the historic six-day joint meeting of the bishops of the Episcopal Church and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA), the Lutherans sent what amounted to a small valentine to the Episcopal prelates meeting separately, some 100 feet […]
NEWS STORY: HUNGER IN AMERICA: U.S. has more hungry kids than any western nation, poverty group says
By Carl Anderson — January 1, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service WASHINGTON _ Child poverty and hunger is more widespread in the United States than in any other industrialized nation and the government does less than any other country’s government to pull its children out of poverty, Bread for the World said Wednesday (Oct. 16).”The child poverty rate in the United […]
Quaker pastor: West remains deaf to the agony of Burundi
By Carl Anderson — January 1, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service WASHINGTON _ David Niyonzima, sitting in the quiet comfort of a breakfast meeting here thousands of miles from his native Burundi, studied the food on his plate as if the words he searched for might be there.”You get the news,”he told a group of reporters and peace activists, referring to […]
PERSPECTIVE: JEWISH POWER: In media and politics, Jewish power is real, but has its limits
By Ira Rifkin — January 1, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service WASHINGTON _ Author J.J. Goldberg has broken a time-honored Jewish taboo. He has dared to discuss openly the power that Jews have in American society, mere mention of which often prompts hyper-sensitive Jewish defense organizations to cry foul. American Jews, said Goldberg, author of the newly published”Jewish Power: Inside the […]
NEWS STORY: VIOLENT TOYS: Group releases list of unacceptable playthings
By RNS Blog Editor — January 1, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service WASHINGTON _ A toy based on the movie”Independence Day”that includes models of real public buildings that collapse when”bombed”is among the toys that a Maryland organization is urging parents not to purchase this holiday season. Daphne White, executive director of The Lion & Lamb Project based in Bethesda, Md., said the”dirty […]
SPECIAL REPORT: RELIGION’S EFFECT ON ELECTION ‘96: Religious right a much tamer animal i
By RNS Blog Editor — January 1, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service WASHINGTON _ The religious right emerged from the 1994 election like a tiger, claiming a clear-cut victory in turning Congress over to conservative Republican control. After this week’s election, the religious right, while hardly declawed, seems a much tamer animal. Bob Dole, favored by the religious conservatives in spite of […]
Presents of mind and spirit: Books and music for the holidays
By RNS Blog Editor — January 1, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service UNDATED _ Everyone know’s it’s better to give than to receive. And better still, during the holiday season is to give something of value, something with meaning, a gift that will last long after the celebrations have concluded. So here’s a sample of this year’s best inspirational and thought-provoking books […]
SPECIAL REPORT: RELIGION’S EFFECT ON ELECTION ‘96: Religious right a much tamer animal i
By RNS Blog Editor — January 1, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service WASHINGTON _ The religious right emerged from the 1994 election like a tiger, claiming a clear-cut victory in turning Congress over to conservative Republican control. After this week’s election, the religious right, while hardly declawed, seems a much tamer animal. Bob Dole, favored by the religious conservatives in spite of […]
TOP STORY: A DIVIDED CHURCH SEEKS COMMON GROUND: Cardinal Bernardin to launch major reconciliation e
By Carl Anderson — January 1, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (UNDATED) Seeking to heal divisions among Roman Catholics in the United States, Chicago Cardinal Joseph L. Bernardin will launch a new national initiative next week designed to find ways to overcome the divisions among the church’s feuding factions.”We must act today to prepare our church for the new millennium,”Bernardin said […]
NEWS STORY: LOOTED TREASURES: Auction of looted art leads Austria to face a sordid past
By RNS Blog Editor — January 1, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (UNDATED) There are no seminal works by Picasso or Titian or Manet in the 874 lots to be auctioned next week in a Vienna museum. The paintings of bucolic landscapes and society portraits for sale depict the normal, bourgeois world in which many of the former owners once dwelled. And […]
TOP STORY: CONFRONTING THE PAST: With sale of stolen art, Austria seeks absolution from Nazi past
By RNS Blog Editor — January 1, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service VIENNA _ While art dealers came by the hundreds seeking bargains, Fran Laufer traveled here from New York not to bid, but to bear witness to the cruel past that made this auction necessary.”I came because I couldn’t control myself,”said the Polish-born great-grandmother who escaped the ovens of the Bergen-Belsen […]
TOP STORY: SEEKING REFUGE: As Germany prepares to evict Bosnians, churches fight back
By RNS Blog Editor — January 1, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service BERLIN _ Religious leaders and refugee advocates here are in an uproar over the recent decision by the German government to force many of the estimated 320,000 Bosnian refugees who have sought safety in Germany to go back home. According to a new policy that went into effect Tuesday (Oct. […]
