Leaders & Institutions
“It was the right thing to do,“says Episcopal bishop accused of heresy
By RNS Blog Editor — January 3, 1996
c. 1995 Religion News Service (RNS)-Walter C. Righter is a white-haired grandfather who lives with his wife in a small hillside house in rural New Hampshire. He’s 72, an age when many people are enjoying retirement. But Righter is facing charges of heresy-the second bishop ever to stand so accused in the 206-year history of […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — January 1, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service Leaders of Adventist, Orthodox church meet in Istanbul (RNS) In the first-ever visit by Seventh-day Adventist Church officials to the Ecumenical Patriarchate, headquarters of the worldwide Orthodox movement in Istanbul, Turkey, leaders from the two groups discussed tensions created by Protestants attempting to spread their faith in Eastern Europe.”The goals […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — January 1, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service Muslim woman calls for release of Christian husband who faces flogging (RNS) A Muslim student in South Carolina is calling on officials of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to”unconditionally release”her Christian husband, who has been sentenced to a year in prison and a flogging after an Islamic court ruled that […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — January 1, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service Cathedral dean retires with tribute from a daredevil (RNS) From high above the altar of Manhattan’s Cathedral of St. John the Divine, a high-wire artist plans to pay a special New Year’s Eve tribute to the Rev. James Parks Morton, the church’s retiring dean. Philippe Petit is scheduled to perform”Crescendo”from […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — January 1, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service East Timorese bishop permitted to attend Nobel ceremony (RNS) Indonesian officials have cleared the way for East Timorese Bishop Carlos Belo to travel to Norway, where he will receive his Nobel Peace Prize next week. Indonesian Foreign Minister Ali Alatas said Tuesday (Dec. 3) that the government would not raise […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — January 1, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service Violence mars Nobel prize-winning bishop’s homecoming (RNS) At least one person was killed and two others were seriously injured in attacks in East Timor by crowds gathered Tuesday (Dec. 24) for the return home of Nobel Peace laureate Bishop Carlos Belo. The crowds had gathered at a cathedral and at […]
Leaders and laity looking for common ground
By Karen Long — January 1, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service UNDATED _ In addition to Archbishop Oscar H. Lipscomb, Cardinal Bernardin appointed the following people to the Common Ground Project: – _ Cardinal Roger Mahony of Los Angeles – Sister Doris Gottemoeller, president, Sisters of Mercy of the Americas – The Rev. J. Bryan Hehir, Center for International Affairs, Harvard […]
Archbishop Oscar H. Lipscomb: A life in the church
By Karen Long — January 1, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service _ Born: 1931 in Mobile. _ Education: St. Patrick’s Catholic School; McGill Institute; St. Bernard College in Cullman, Ala.; North American College, Rome; Gregorian University, Rome; M.A. and Ph.D. in history from Catholic University, Washington. – Ordained: Rome, July 15, 1956 – Installed as archbishop in Mobile: Nov. 16, 1980 […]
TOP STORY: PROFILE: Mobile archbishop takes on the search for Catholic `common ground’
By Karen Long — January 1, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service MOBILE, Ala. _ Priestly celibacy. Gay rights. Feminism. Birth control. Liberation theology. Welfare reform. In vitro fertilization. Euthanasia. These are some of the issues that the late Cardinal Joseph Bernardin said were fragmenting the Catholic church and endangering its mission. Just three months before his death Nov. 14, Bernardin formed […]
Defending priestly celibacy, bishop salutes a mentor and model
By Carl Anderson — January 1, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service WASHINGTON (RNS) _ He didn’t say so explicitly, but Bishop Anthony Pilla of Cleveland, president of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops, might have had Chicago Cardinal Joseph L. Bernardin in mind Monday when he delivered an impassioned defense of the priesthood and priestly celibacy. Pilla’s presidential address, an examination […]
Bishops criticize U.S. economic policy at home and abroad
By Carl Anderson — January 1, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service WASHINGTON _ Criticizing”political posturing”and”ideological positioning”by politicians and policymakers, U.S. Catholic bishops Tuesday (Nov. 12) approved a succinct statement calling for restructuring the American economy to meet the basic needs of the poor both at home and abroad.”We need to be very clear,”said Bishop William Skylstad of Spokane, Wash.”Our defense of […]
NEWS STORY: Bishops seek to balance Vatican authority and academic freedom
By Carl Anderson — January 1, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service WASHINGTON _ Seeking to strike a delicate balance between academic freedom and a commitment to church doctrine, the nation’s Roman Catholic bishops Wednesday (Nov. 13) adopted a set of rules on their relations with the church’s 235 colleges and universities. With little debate and no significant dissent, the prelates adopted […]
TOP STORY: DEATH COMES FOR THE ARCHBISHOP: America mourns a quiet cardinal whose life spoke louder t
By Carl Anderson — January 1, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (UNDATED) Cardinal Joseph L. Bernardin, the son of an immigrant seamstress and a stonecutter and became one of the most influential and beloved U.S. Roman Catholic leaders in a century, died Thursday (Nov. 14) after a long but graceful battle with cancer. He was 68. Bernardin, who headed the Archdiocese […]
TOP STORY: BISHOPS END MEETING: Spirit of Bernardin permeates bishops meeting
By Carl Anderson — January 1, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service WASHINGTON _ From an opening prayer as he lay dying, to the meeting’s final debate on a restructuring plan he had overseen, the spirit of the late Cardinal Joseph L. Bernardin hovered over this week’s sessions of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops (NCCB). More than any other of the […]
NEWS STORY: Church, nation bid farewell to Cardinal Joseph L. Bernardin
By Carl Anderson — January 1, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service UNDATED _ The church he loved and the nation whose public policy he sought to influence for a quarter of a century said farewell Wednesday (Nov. 20) to Chicago’s Roman Catholic Cardinal Joseph L. Bernardin. With his friend and colleague Cardinal Roger Mahony of Los Angeles presiding and Vice President […]
