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COMMENTARY: Whitewater pardons: Shall the law be king?
By RNS Blog Editor — January 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 _ Pre-election speculation about potential pardons for […]
COMMENTARY: No matter who occupies the Oval Office, God’s on his throne
By RNS Blog Editor — January 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 _ Our national obsession with competitiveness manifests […]
COMMENTARY: Origin of the species is more mysterious than the apes
By RNS Blog Editor — January 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) The keepers of the Copenhagen Zoo recently […]
COMMENTARY: Cheap cuts on TV: Humiliating people for fun and profit
By RNS Blog Editor — January 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) When it comes to plumbing the grimier […]
NEWS FEATURE: Shareholder season: Time for idealists to challenge business practices
By RNS Blog Editor — January 1, 1996
c. 1997 Religion News Service SEATTLE _ More than 1,000 shareholders of the Boeing Company came together here April 28 for the annual ritual of assessing the aerospace giant’s past performance and anticipating the year to come. And in a footnote to the proceedings, shareholders overwhelmingly defeated two resolutions by religious investors urging Boeing to […]
TOP STORY: HIGH PROFILE CONFABS: Catholic bishops focus on young adults, colleges and economic justi
By Carl Anderson — January 1, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service WASHINGTON _ Reaching out to young Catholics _ and perhaps even interesting them in the religious life _ tops the agenda of the nation’s Roman Catholic bishops when they gather in Washington next week for their annual fall meeting. The Nov. 11-14 meeting of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops […]
NEWS STORY: VATICAN DISAPPROVAL: Vatican accuses UNICEF of promoting abortion, withholds funds
By RNS Blog Editor — January 1, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service VATICAN CITY _ Accusing the United Nations aid program for children of advocating abortion and distributing contraceptives to Third World women, the Vatican has decided to withhold its annual contribution for UNICEF activities. UNICEF officials denied the charges and said they had no evidence of support within their ranks for […]
NEWS STORY: Pope, Carey agree on stronger ties, but deep divisions remain
By RNS Blog Editor — January 1, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service VATICAN CITY _ Pope John Paul II and Archbishop of Canterbury George Carey, spiritual leader of the worldwide Anglican Communion, said Tuesday (Dec. 3) they would seek to forge improved ties between Catholics and Anglicans aimed at eventually creating full communion between the two churches. But at the end of […]
TOP STORY: POPE, CAREY CONCLUDE TALKS: Catholics, Anglicans remain divided over thorny issues
By RNS Blog Editor — January 1, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service VATICAN CITY _ Anglican Church leader Archbishop George Carey and Pope John Paul II remained at an impasse after two days of talks over fundamental issues that have divided their churches, including women’s ordination, gay marriages and the primacy, or supreme authority, of the pontiff. The meetings, which ended Thursday […]
TOP STORY: AUSTRIA TILTS TO THE RIGHT: Missteps of church and political establishment aid rise of Au
By RNS Blog Editor — January 1, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service VIENNA _ He bashes them at will, but Joerg Haider has Austria’s political and religious establishments to thank for his rising fortunes. The leader of the resurgent Freedom Party torments the ruling Social Democrats and Christian Democrats by claiming that in their zeal for European unity they have sacrificed the […]
TOP STORY: Pope meets with Castro, accepts invitation to visit Cuba
By RNS Blog Editor — January 1, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service VATICAN CITY _ In a dramatic coda to the end of the Cold War, Pope John Paul II welcomed Cuban President Fidel Castro to the citadel of Roman Catholicism Tuesday (Nov. 19) and accepted the communist leader’s invitation to visit Cuba next year. For 35 minutes the pope huddled in […]
NEWS STORY: Pope has successful appendectomy, but questions remain on health
By RNS Blog Editor — January 1, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service ROME _ A team of surgeons successfully removed Pope John Paul II’s inflamed appendix Tuesday (Oct. 8) and said there was no recurrence of a benign tumor removed in 1992. But they skirted questions about other illnesses that might be afflicting the 76-year-old pontiff. Doctors described as”typical”the 50-minute appendectomy at […]
NEWS STORY: LOOTED TREASURES: Auction of looted art leads Austria to face a sordid past
By RNS Blog Editor — January 1, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (UNDATED) There are no seminal works by Picasso or Titian or Manet in the 874 lots to be auctioned next week in a Vienna museum. The paintings of bucolic landscapes and society portraits for sale depict the normal, bourgeois world in which many of the former owners once dwelled. And […]
COMMENTARY: ‘Tis the season of spiritual transformation
By RNS Blog Editor — January 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 _ This is the season of transformation, […]
COMMENTARY: The spirit of King Herod is alive and well
By RNS Blog Editor — January 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 _ Revelations of large cash donations to […]