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TOP STORY: RELIGION AND HISTORY: Historic Trinity Church in New York marks 300th year
By RNS Blog Editor — June 27, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service NEW YORK _ Nestled in the canyons of Wall Street, where narrow sidewalks bend in the shadows cast by buildings rising to spectacular heights, sits the unlikely progenitor of Manhattan’s famed financial district _ the parish of Trinity Church. From its inception in 1697, when England’s King William III granted […]
TOP STORY: RELIGION AND CULTURE
By RNS Blog Editor — June 26, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service ANGAHUAN, Mexico _ Speaking in a soft singsong, the town elder recalled villagers’ fear when a strange hillock spewing fire and smoke broke through the furrows of Dionisio Pulido’s cornfield.”People began to cry, but it was the adults crying, and then the little ones as well,”said Jorge Gomez Amado of […]
NEWS STORY: Catholic bishops’ meeting opens with defense of political process
By Carl Anderson — June 21, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (PORTLAND, Ore.)-Bishop Anthony M. Pilla, president of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops, opened the bishops’ annual spring meeting Thursday defending the church’s role in the political process and warning groups seeking to mobilize the Catholic vote that they must have respect for the social-justice principles of the church.”Any individual […]
NEWS STORY: Catholic bishops’ meeting opens with defense of political process
By Carl Anderson — June 21, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (PORTLAND, Ore.)-Bishop Anthony M. Pilla, president of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops, opened the bishops’ annual spring meeting Thursday defending the church’s role in the political process and warning groups seeking to mobilize the Catholic vote that they must have respect for the social-justice principles of the church.”Any individual […]
NEWS STORY: Disney boycott capstone of Baptist meeting
By Adelle M. Banks — June 14, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (RNS)-Wiley Drake quickly shed his Mickey Mouse tie Wednesday (June 12) after persuading his fellow Southern Baptists to call for a nationwide boycott of the Walt Disney Co., accusing the entertainment giant of promoting”anti-Christian and anti-family”values. But Drake said his own boycott resolution, adopted overwhelmingly by delegates to the Baptists’ […]
NEWS STORY: Disney boycott capstone of Baptist meeting
By Adelle M. Banks — June 14, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (RNS)-Wiley Drake quickly shed his Mickey Mouse tie Wednesday (June 12) after persuading his fellow Southern Baptists to call for a nationwide boycott of the Walt Disney Co., accusing the entertainment giant of promoting”anti-Christian and anti-family”values. But Drake said his own boycott resolution, adopted overwhelmingly by delegates to the Baptists’ […]
NEWS STORY: Southern Baptists vote to boycott Disney over gay issue
By RNS Blog Editor — June 13, 1996
Delegates to the Southern Baptist Convention’s annual meeting in New Orleans voted overwhelmingly Wednesday (June 12) to urge its members to boycott Walt Disney Co. theme parks, films and other products because of the company’s”promotion of homosexuality”and adult-themed movies.”In recent years, The Disney Company has given the appearance that the promotion of homosexuality is more […]
COMMENTARY: Now that the rally is over, how do we stand for children?
By James Alan Fox — June 13, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (Paul Fox is a physician in Farmington, Pa., and a member of the Bruderhof, a communal Christian movement based in Rifton, N.Y. He is editor-at-large of The Plough, a Bruderhof quarterly magazine.) (RNS)-The”Stand for Children”rally has come and gone. The 250,000 participants in the June 1 demonstration in the nation’s […]
TOP STORY: RELIGION IN AMERICA: Catholics immersed in a centuries-old baptismal ritual
By RNS Blog Editor — June 12, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service LOS ANGELES (RNS)-Converts to Catholicism are increasingly being baptized by immersion, an historic shift by the church back to ancient ways of initiation. The change is taking place so gradually that many Catholics are unfamiliar with the splashy ritual.”You will get very wet,”Msgr. Gerald Wilkerson, a pastor in suburban Encino, […]
TOP STORY: RELIGION IN AMERICA: Catholics immersed in a centuries-old baptismal ritual
By RNS Blog Editor — June 12, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service LOS ANGELES (RNS)-Converts to Catholicism are increasingly being baptized by immersion, an historic shift by the church back to ancient ways of initiation. The change is taking place so gradually that many Catholics are unfamiliar with the splashy ritual.”You will get very wet,”Msgr. Gerald Wilkerson, a pastor in suburban Encino, […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — June 11, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service U.S. Supreme Court leaves Washington’s assisted-suicide ban in place (RNS)-The U.S. Supreme Court said Monday (June 10) that Washington state’s ban on doctor-assisted suicides can remain in effect while state officials prepare a challenge to a lower court ruling that the law is unconstitutional. In its action, the Court took […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — June 11, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service U.S. Supreme Court leaves Washington’s assisted-suicide ban in place (RNS)-The U.S. Supreme Court said Monday (June 10) that Washington state’s ban on doctor-assisted suicides can remain in effect while state officials prepare a challenge to a lower court ruling that the law is unconstitutional. In its action, the Court took […]
NEWS FEATURE: Belief in Virgin sighting endures; doubting abbot in the hot seat
By RNS Blog Editor — June 7, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service MEXICO CITY (RNS)-So revered is Mexico’s Virgin of Guadalupe that in addition to her status as its patron saint, she is considered the mother of the country. Her colorful image is omnipresent, featured in street paintings, hung above doorways and dangled from rearview mirrors. Her shrine, on a Mexico City […]
COMMENTARY: A summer of hatred spawned centuries of grief
By James Rudin — June 6, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (Rabbi Rudin is the national interreligious affairs director of the American Jewish Committee.) (RNS)-Sometimes we can pinpoint a moment in history when the world was forever changed. Such a moment occurred 900 years ago, in May and June, 1096. Something terrible happened then in Europe that still affects the way […]
NEWS FEATURE: “City of Joy”priest continues quiet work among the poor
By Tim Murphy — June 6, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service CALCUTTA, India (RNS)-In his classic 1985 work,”City of Joy,”author Dominique Lapierre profiled Polish priest Stephan Kovalski, who set out to live among the poorest of Calcutta’s poor. But Kovalski’s real identity is the Rev. Francis Laborde, who, more than 30 years after he eschewed the comforts of the West to […]
