Judaism
COMMENTARY: A Watergate veteran looks at Filegate
By RNS Blog Editor — July 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) If I qualify as an expert in […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — June 29, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service National Catholic Reporter faces $30 million libel suit for labor story (RNS) Briggs & Stratton, the Milwaukee, Wis.-based manufacturer of lawn mower and other small engines, has filed a $30 million lawsuit against the independent National Catholic Reporter (NCR), alleging the newspaper defamed the company and some of its top […]
COMMENTARY: In defense of Gypsies
By RNS Blog Editor — June 28, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (Andrew M. Greeley is a Roman Catholic priest, best-selling novelist and a sociologist at the University of Chicago National Opinion Research Center. His home page on the World Wide Web is at http://www.agreeley.com. Or contact him via e-mail at agreel(AT)aol.com.) (UNDATED) Victor Hugo would not see much connection between his […]
NEWS STORY: `United Religions’ summit shows signs of division
By RNS Blog Editor — June 28, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service SAN FRANCISCO _ As delegates assembled here this week (June 24-28) for meetings to create a global, interfaith”United Religions”organization, three conference participants showed just how difficult a task they are confronting. California Episcopal Bishop William Swing, who is hosting the United Religions summit, said the initiative aims to establish a […]
NEWS STORY: `United Religions’ summit shows signs of division
By RNS Blog Editor — June 28, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service SAN FRANCISCO _ As delegates assembled here this week (June 24-28) for meetings to create a global, interfaith”United Religions”organization, three conference participants showed just how difficult a task they are confronting. California Episcopal Bishop William Swing, who is hosting the United Religions summit, said the initiative aims to establish a […]
TOP STORY: ETHICS AND SOCIETY: Idaho prosecutor’s use of fornication law to fight teen pregnan
By RNS Blog Editor — June 28, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service EMMETT, Idaho _ A note arrived from the principal’s office as Amanda Smisek, great with child, sat in class this spring at her high school here. The message: A detective at the city police station wanted to speak with her. “I thought someone must have got into trouble and they […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — June 27, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service Disney, under attack by religious groups, puts Catholic cleric on board (RNS) The Walt Disney Co., under attack by some religious groups for straying from the path of family values in its entertainment and personnel policies, has named the Rev. Leo O’Donovan, president of the Jesuit-run Georgetown University in Washington […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — June 26, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service Unitarians endorse same-sex marriages (RNS) _ The Unitarian Universalist Association voted Tuesday (June 25) to endorse the legalization of same-sex marriages, the first U.S. denomination to do so. Meeting in Indianapolis, delegates to the liberal religious group’s annual convention voted overwhelmingly to”proclaim the worth of marriage between any two committed […]
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 ANALYSIS: Bishops wrestle with role as teacher to U.S. Catholics
By Carl Anderson — June 25, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service PORTLAND, Ore. _ For three days last week, in various ways and differing contexts, U.S. Roman Catholic bishops wrestled with and acted on their calling to be teachers of the nation’s 60 million Catholics. Confronting a full agenda of internal church concerns _ from voting on new English translations of […]
NEWS ANALYSIS: Bishops wrestle with role as teacher to U.S. Catholics
By Carl Anderson — June 25, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service PORTLAND, Ore. _ For three days last week, in various ways and differing contexts, U.S. Roman Catholic bishops wrestled with and acted on their calling to be teachers of the nation’s 60 million Catholics. Confronting a full agenda of internal church concerns _ from voting on new English translations of […]
NEWS STORY: Pope meets a defiant flock on visit to Berlin
By RNS Blog Editor — June 25, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service BERLIN _ It was meant to mark the peaceful reunification of Germany, but Pope John Paul II’s weekend trip to Berlin _ his first _ was anything but placid or unifying. As his vehicle was pelted by eggs and paint bombs and his entourage was greeted by demonstrators dressed as […]
TOP STORY: WORK AND FAITH: Religion in the workplace raises complex issues for courts
By RNS Blog Editor — June 22, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (RNS)-When Isaiah”Ike”Brown took over a Des Moines county data processing unit in 1986, he made no bones about bringing his born-again Baptist beliefs into the office. He tacked prayer plaques and inspirational posters on the walls. He led prayers in his office before work with other Christians. During meetings he […]
TOP STORY: RELIGION IN AMERICA: Mormon families follow in the footsteps of their forebears
By Peggy Fletcher Stack — June 22, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service NAUVOO, Ill. (RNS)-Tom and Linda Whitaker of Midway, Utah, and five of their six children have set forth on the same journey their beleaguered Mormon ancestors took 150 years ago, as they fled religious persecution and went searching for a promised land. At the break of dawn Monday (June 17), […]
NEWS STORY: Euthanasia becoming key policy item for U.S. Catholic bishops
By Carl Anderson — June 22, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service PORTLAND, Ore. _ The nation’s Roman Catholic bishops are stepping up their campaign against euthanasia and doctor-assisted suicide, asking the U.S. Supreme Court to allow states to ban the practice and urging Congress to take action. Meeting this week in Portland, Ore., the first state to pass legislation legalizing physician-assisted […]
