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COMMENTARY: A pope should be chosen without secrecy
By RNS Blog Editor — March 16, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (Andrew M. Greeley is a Roman Catholic priest, best-selling novelist and sociologist at the University of Chicago’s National Opinion Research Center. His home page on the World Wide Web is at http://www.greeley.com. Or contact him at his e-mail address: agreel(at sign)aol.com. Check RNS Online for a photo of Andrew Greeley.) […]
Pope revises rules on papal elections that could alter outcome
By RNS Blog Editor — February 29, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service VATICAN CITY (RNS)-Pope John Paul II has revised the way the next pope will be elected, allowing cardinals voting in secret ballot to abandon two-thirds majority approval and resort to a simple absolute majority if a stalemate is reached. The revision, outlined in a papal document, could affect the outcome […]
Pope revises rules on papal elections that could alter outcome
By RNS Blog Editor — February 24, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service VATICAN CITY (RNS)-Pope John Paul II has revised the way the next pope will be elected, allowing cardinals voting in secret ballot to abandon two-thirds majority approval and resort to a simple absolute majority if a stalemate is reached. The revision, outlined in a papal document, could affect the outcome […]
COMMENTARY: In Northern Ireland, peace didn’t have a chance
By RNS Blog Editor — February 17, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (Andrew M. Greeley is a Roman Catholic priest, best-selling novelist and sociologist at the University of Chicago’s National Opinion Research Center. His home page on the World Wide Web is at http://tekweb.com/greeley.html. Or contact him at his e-mail address: agreel at aol.com.) (RNS)-When the history is written of the most […]
NEWS FEATURE: Author says religion should be restored to rightful place in classroom
By Kimberly Winston — February 7, 1996
c. 1995 Religion News Service (RNS)-Is it a problem best left to Congress or to the classroom teacher? Lawmakers this year may consider two constitutional amendments that seek to protect and promote religious expression. A proposal by Rep. Henry Hyde, R-Ill., would prevent what he sees as discrimination against religious views in public venues, such […]
TOP STORY: THE VATICAN AMBASSADOR: Vatican ambassador in dispute over campaign funds
By RNS Blog Editor — February 3, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service ROME (RNS)-Lawyers for Raymond Flynn, U.S. ambassador to the Vatican, expressed optimism Friday (Feb. 2) that a legal dispute involving campaign expenses he allegedly failed to reimburse while mayor of Boston would be settled next week. Flynn added that he has no plans to resign his post. The assessment was […]
NEWS STORY: Activists map strategy to counter Religious Right in upcoming election
By Carl Anderson — February 2, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service WASHINGTON (RNS)-Some 200 Protestant and Roman Catholic pastors, theologians and church-based community activists began gathering here Thursday (Feb. 1) to map an alternative strategy to the Religious Right in the 1996 election campaign.”The old categories and polarities-of left and right, Republican and Democrat-have failed us,”Jim Wallis, editor of Sojourners magazine, […]
NEWS STORY: Vatican book on sexuality may bolster”parental rights”drive
By RNS Blog Editor — January 23, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service VATICAN CITY (RNS)-The”parental rights”movement in the United States has gained an unintended assist from the Roman Catholic Church. In a new book on human sexuality, the church advises parents to become more involved in their children’s education, to the extent of removing them from school if they are unhappy with […]
NEWS STORY: Christian Right meeting in Memphis draws five GOP hopefuls
By Angela Waters — January 23, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service MEMPHIS, Tenn. (RNS)-Joined by five Republican presidential candidates, thousands of conservative Christians met in Memphis over the weekend for a two-day meeting designed to rally evangelical voters for the upcoming presidential primaries.”Our goal,”said Howard Phillips, chairman of the Conservative Caucus and one of many Christian Right leaders who spoke at […]
TOP STORY: AN ACT OF FAITH: Memphis mother crusades against city’s sex trade
By Angela Waters — January 3, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service MEMPHIS, Tenn. (RNS)-Carolyn McKenzie has learned to follow faith’s footprints. Faith led her as an Army nurse through the emotional land mines of Vietnam. Years later, faith guided her in a hospital as her baby son nearly died of bacterial meningitis. Now, at age 48, faith leads her out of […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — January 1, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service Survey: TV preachers did little to help Dole campaign (RNS) In sharp contrast with the presidential campaigns of Ronald Reagan and George Bush, the major television evangelists gave virtually no help to Republican contender Bob Dole in his 1996 quest for the presidency. A content-based survey by Stephen Winzenburg, professor […]
NEWS SIDEBAR: People of faith: How they voted
By RNS Blog Editor — January 1, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (UNDATED) Here’s a rundown of exit polls and other post-election surveys of how Americans voted by religion in the 1996 presidential election. RELIGIOUS CONSERVATIVES CLINTON: 26 percent DOLE: 65 percent PEROT: 8 percent Source: Voters News Service Sample: 16,338 voters, 16 percent of whom identified themselves as”religious conservatives.” Margin of […]
NEWS ANALYSIS: 105th congressional battles will take up where 104th left off
By Kim Lawton — January 1, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service WASHINGTON _ It all seems strangely familiar. From the White House, President Bill Clinton battles a Republican-dominated Congress over a balanced budget, abortion and welfare reform. Members of the religious right try to capitalize on political clout gained by helping to elect conservative Republicans, while religious moderates and liberals try […]
TOP STORY: THE ETHICS OF VOTING: Hold your nose, pull the lever: For some, it takes two hands to vot
By Kim Lawton — January 1, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service WASHINGTON _ In rural Northern Virginia, Judie Brown has made the fight against abortion her personal crusade. An hour’s drive away in inner-city Washington, D.C., Carol Fennelly is a veteran advocate for the homeless. The two women are activists on radically different ends of the political spectrum, but on Election […]
At Chicago assembly, NCC reaches out to Muslims, evangelicals
By RNS Blog Editor — January 1, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (UNDATED) The National Council of Churches (NCC) bridged deep theological divides this week, reaching out to American Muslims, evangelical Protestants and Roman Catholics during its annual general assembly held in Chicago. During the five-day meeting, which adjourned Friday (Nov. 15), the NCC _ which represents some 52 million mainline Protestant […]