Law & Court
FEATURE SIDEBAR: The Talmud Confronts Florida’s Electric Chair
By Amy Ellis Nutt — January 1, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service UNDATED _ There are many signs of increased interest in Jewish legal studies at American law schools: More than three dozen schools now teach the subject; the American Association of Law School Professors has its own Jewish law section; there is now a Jewish law casebook being used as a […]
COMMENTARY: The death penalty: A biblical view
By RNS Blog Editor — January 1, 1999
c. 1999 Religion News Service (Samuel K. Atchison is an ordained minister and has worked as a policy analyst and social worker to the homeless. He currently is a prison chaplain in Trenton, N.J.) UNDATED _ In New Jersey, on Sept. 22, convicted murderer John Martini is scheduled to be put to death for the […]
NEWS FEATURE: Catholic Church wrestles with its past as it opposes death penalty
By William Bole — January 1, 1999
c. 1999 Religion News Service UNDATED _ By most accounts, Missouri’s Supreme Court justices had their eyes peeled on Pope John Paul II when they postponed an execution originally scheduled for Jan. 27 _ during the pope’s visit to St. Louis. The announcement in November again raised attention to what has become a papal crusade […]
NEWS STORY: Oklahoma death penalty case stirs new religious opposition
By Ira Rifkin — January 1, 1999
c. 1999 Religion News Service UNDATED _ Less than a week after papal intervention saved the life of a Missouri killer, Roman Catholic and Jewish leaders and others have become involved in another death penalty case in Oklahoma, where a death row inmate is scheduled to die early Thursday (Feb. 4) for three murders he […]
NEWS STORY: Missouri governor, in bow to papal plea, spares killer’s life
By Ira Rifkin — January 1, 1999
c. 1999 Religion News Service ST. LOUIS _ Missouri Gov. Mel Carnahan agreed Thursday (Jan. 28) to a request from Pope John Paul II to commute the death sentence of a three-time murderer whose scheduled execution had been moved so as not to coincide with the pontiff’s visit here this week. Carnahan acted one day […]
COMMENTARY: The New Age enters the law: Animal rights in a Catholic university
By Frances Kennedy — January 1, 1999
c. 1999 Religion News Service (Eugene Kennedy, a longtime observer of the Roman Catholic Church, is professor emeritus of psychology at Loyola University in Chicago and author most recently of”My Brother Joseph,”published by St. Martin’s Press.) UNDATED _ Only under the cover of the fog of philosophical vagueness now obscuring our moral boundaries could the […]
NEWS FEATURE: Domino’s pizza founder plans to work for God and die broke
By Patrick O'Donnell — January 1, 1999
c. 1999 Religion News Service ANN ARBOR, Mich. _ Tom Monaghan gets cracking early. Up at 5 a.m., the founder of Domino’s Pizza runs four or five miles and lifts weights for half an hour before attending 8 a.m. Mass in a small chapel tucked away at the Domino’s Farms complex. Following 8:30 a.m. prayer […]
NEWS FEATURE: Substituting prayer for medical care sparks concern in Oregon
By RNS Blog Editor — May 8, 1998
c. 1998 Religion News Service OREGON CITY, Ore. _ Eleven-year-old Bo Phillips had been dead about three hours when Detective Jeff Green arrived to investigate. It was 6 p.m. Feb. 23. About 100 people were at the house praying and offering support and condolences to family members. Green, a Clackamas County sheriff’s deputy, found the […]
NEWS STORY: Grand jury takes up infamous 1963 Alabama church bombing that killed four
By RNS Blog Editor — January 1, 1998
c. 1998 Religion News Service BIRMINGHAM, Ala. _ A federal grand jury has begun hearing evidence in the infamous 1963 bombing that killed four girls at a Baptist church here and altered the course of the black civil rights struggle. The grand jury heard testimony Thursday (Oct. 22) from the Rev. John Cross, the pastor […]
NEWS STORY: Study: religious grandparents more involved than non-religious
By RNS Blog Editor — January 1, 1998
c. 1998 Religion News Service UNDATED _ Nonreligious grandparents may have close relationships with their grandchildren but religiously active grandparents have higher levels of involvement with the youngsters, according to a new study. Sociologists at Pennsylvania State University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill say their recent study found religiously active grandparents […]
NEWS STORY: Cleveland judge dismisses charges against anti-Wahoo protesters
By James Ewinger — January 1, 1998
c. 1998 Religion News Service CLEVELAND _ A Cleveland judge Tuesday (April 7) dismissed charges against three American Indian activists, including a United Church of Christ official, saying city prosecutors failed to prove the trio broke any laws at a 1997 World Series baseball game where they protested the Cleveland Indians use of the Chief […]
COMMENTARY: Lawyers, legalism and contemporary American morality
By Frances Kennedy — January 1, 1998
c. 1998 Religion News Service (Eugene Kennedy, a longtime observer of the Roman Catholic Church, is professor emeritus of psychology at Loyola University in Chicago and author most recently of a biography of the late Cardinal Bernardin,”My Brother Joseph,”published by St. Martin Press.) UNDATED _ America has long employed humor as a defense against the […]
COMMENTARY: Thou shalt not leak: the sin of revealing secrets
By RNS Blog Editor — January 1, 1998
c. 1998 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. Check out his home page at http://www.agreeley.com or contact him via e-mail at agreel(at)aol.com.) UNDATED _ In the moral theology I was taught at seminary, revealing a secret […]
COMMENTARY: Prosecutors out of control
By RNS Blog Editor — January 1, 1998
c. 1998 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. Check out his home page at http://www.agreeley.com or contact him via e-mail at agreel(at)aol.com.) UNDATED _ The pundits have completely missed the point of case of former Secretary […]
COMMENTARY: A return to Ozzie and Harriet?
By RNS Blog Editor — January 1, 1998
c. 1998 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. Check out his home page at http://www.agreeley.com or contact him via e-mail at agreel(at)aol.com.) UNDATED _”Men and women have declared a cease-fire in the war that raged between […]
