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NEWS STORY: Pope has successful appendectomy, but questions remain on health
By RNS Blog Editor — January 1, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service ROME _ A team of surgeons successfully removed Pope John Paul II’s inflamed appendix Tuesday (Oct. 8) and said there was no recurrence of a benign tumor removed in 1992. But they skirted questions about other illnesses that might be afflicting the 76-year-old pontiff. Doctors described as”typical”the 50-minute appendectomy at […]
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. […]
COMMENTARY: ‘Tis the season of spiritual transformation
By RNS Blog Editor — January 1, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (Charles W. Colson, former special counsel to Richard Nixon, served a prison term for his role in the Watergate scandal. He now heads Prison Fellowship International, an evangelical Christian ministry to the imprisoned and their families. Contact Colson via e-mail at 71421.1551(at)compuserve.com.) UNDATED _ This is the season of transformation, […]
COMMENTARY: No matter who occupies the Oval Office, God’s on his throne
By RNS Blog Editor — January 1, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (Charles W. Colson, former special counsel to Richard Nixon, served a prison term for his role in the Watergate scandal. He now heads Prison Fellowship International, an evangelical Christian ministry to the imprisoned and their families. Contact Colson via e-mail at 71421.1551(at)compuserve.com.) UNDATED _ Our national obsession with competitiveness manifests […]
COMMENTARY: A lost generation, running on empty
By RNS Blog Editor — January 1, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (Charles W. Colson, former special counsel to Richard Nixon, served a prison term for his role in the Watergate scandal. He now heads Prison Fellowship International, an evangelical Christian ministry to the imprisoned and their families. Contact Colson via e-mail at 71421.1551(at)compuserve.com.) (UNDATED) It may be my election-season imagination, but […]
COMMENTARY: Dunce caps for the candidates when talk turns to religion
By RNS Blog Editor — January 1, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (Charles W. Colson, former special counsel to Richard Nixon, served a prison term for his role in the Watergate scandal. He now heads Prison Fellowship International, an evangelical Christian ministry to the imprisoned and their families. Contact Colson via e-mail at 71421.1551(at)compuserve.com.) (UNDATED) Well, it’s clear that neither President Clinton […]
COMMENTARY: Cheap cuts on TV: Humiliating people for fun and profit
By RNS Blog Editor — January 1, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (Charles W. Colson, former special counsel to Richard Nixon, served a prison term for his role in the Watergate scandal. He now heads Prison Fellowship International, an evangelical Christian ministry to the imprisoned and their families. Contact Colson via e-mail at 71421.1551(at)compuserve.com.) (UNDATED) When it comes to plumbing the grimier […]
NEWS STORY: Pope, Carey agree on stronger ties, but deep divisions remain
By RNS Blog Editor — January 1, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service VATICAN CITY _ Pope John Paul II and Archbishop of Canterbury George Carey, spiritual leader of the worldwide Anglican Communion, said Tuesday (Dec. 3) they would seek to forge improved ties between Catholics and Anglicans aimed at eventually creating full communion between the two churches. But at the end of […]
NEWS FEATURE: Shareholder season: Time for idealists to challenge business practices
By RNS Blog Editor — January 1, 1996
c. 1997 Religion News Service SEATTLE _ More than 1,000 shareholders of the Boeing Company came together here April 28 for the annual ritual of assessing the aerospace giant’s past performance and anticipating the year to come. And in a footnote to the proceedings, shareholders overwhelmingly defeated two resolutions by religious investors urging Boeing to […]
TOP STORY: POPE, CAREY CONCLUDE TALKS: Catholics, Anglicans remain divided over thorny issues
By RNS Blog Editor — January 1, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service VATICAN CITY _ Anglican Church leader Archbishop George Carey and Pope John Paul II remained at an impasse after two days of talks over fundamental issues that have divided their churches, including women’s ordination, gay marriages and the primacy, or supreme authority, of the pontiff. The meetings, which ended Thursday […]
TOP STORY: HIGH PROFILE CONFABS: Catholic bishops focus on young adults, colleges and economic justi
By Carl Anderson — January 1, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service WASHINGTON _ Reaching out to young Catholics _ and perhaps even interesting them in the religious life _ tops the agenda of the nation’s Roman Catholic bishops when they gather in Washington next week for their annual fall meeting. The Nov. 11-14 meeting of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops […]
NEWS STORY: GENDER ISSUES: Vatican sets review for gender-neutral versions of Scripture
By RNS Blog Editor — January 1, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service VATICAN CITY _ In an effort to resolve one of the thorniest disputes between the American church and Rome, the Vatican agreed on Friday (Dec. 13) to speed up talks with the U.S. hierarchy on the use of”inclusive language”in the biblical texts read during Mass. The accord sets up a […]
TOP STORY: AUSTRIA TILTS TO THE RIGHT: Missteps of church and political establishment aid rise of Au
By RNS Blog Editor — January 1, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service VIENNA _ He bashes them at will, but Joerg Haider has Austria’s political and religious establishments to thank for his rising fortunes. The leader of the resurgent Freedom Party torments the ruling Social Democrats and Christian Democrats by claiming that in their zeal for European unity they have sacrificed the […]
