Monthly Archives: March 1996
TOP STORY: DISSENT AND THE CATHOLIC CHURCH: Excommunication decree sows confusion, outrage
By RNS Blog Editor — March 30, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (RNS)-Three U.S. Catholic bishops are among the members of Call to Action, a liberal Catholic organization targeted in a sweeping excommunication threat by Lincoln, Neb., Bishop Fabian W. Bruskewitz. Bruskewitz said March 19 he would excommunicate Catholics in his diocese who refuse to quit Call to Action and 11 other […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — March 30, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service Reform rabbis seek to tighten patrilineal descent policy (RNS)-Reform Judaism’s rabbinic body is undertaking a review of its controversial policy of patrilineal descent because of concerns it has been misunderstood by the laity. Patrilineal descent is the acceptance of a Jewish father’s children as Jews, even if the mother is […]
COMMENTARY: Catholic dissent and a bishop’s abuse of power
By RNS Blog Editor — March 30, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (Andrew M. Greeley is a Roman Catholic priest, best-selling novelist and sociologist at the University of Chicago’s National Opinion Research Center. His home page on the World Wide Web is at http://www.greeley.com. Or contact him at his e-mail address: agreel(at sign)aol.com.) (RNS)-The Irish have a word that perfectly describes Bishop […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — March 29, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service All-white Southern Baptist church decides to keep biracial child in grave (RNS)-The top social policy official of the Southern Baptist Convention has harshly criticized an all-white Southern Baptist church in Georgia whose leaders wanted to exhume the body of a baby from a church cemetery after learning the child was […]
NEWS STORY: Pope urges `new feminism’ for women in Catholic Church
By RNS Blog Editor — March 29, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service VATICAN CITY (RNS)-Pope John Paul II appears to have opened the door a bit further to the role of women in the Catholic Church, stating in a document released Thursday (March 28) that they should be encouraged to promote a”new feminism”in educational and decision-making roles. But the pope, in a […]
COMMENTARY: In America, there’s room for all religions
By James Rudin — March 29, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (Rabbi Rudin is the national interreligious affairs director of the American Jewish Committee.) (RNS)-A new report by the U.S. Census Bureau offers powerful evidence that America is undergoing a profound demographic shift, which promises to transform not only the social, political and economic landscape, but religious communities as well. Today, […]
TOP STORY: RELIGION AND THE ENVIRONMENT: Eco-theologian says fate of the Earth hangs in the balance
By Bruce Nolan — March 29, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (RNS)-Nearing the end of his intellectually rich life, Thomas Berry, 81, cultural historian, Catholic priest and scholar, comes now to the conclusion that we, too, are perilously near the end. We, the human species, he means. “The peril of the planet, if not its tragic fate,” he calls us. Having […]
Revisiting the sites where Jesus last walked
By Elaine Fletcher — March 29, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service JERUSALEM (RNS)-It was in or near Bethpage, a Herodian-era cemetery marking the city limits of ancient Jerusalem, that the Easter story began on Palm Sunday. And from a similar site the Resurrection story unfolded a week later-a week marked by nadirs of agony and despair and pinnacles of joy. Even […]
NEWS FEATURE: Reform Jewish leaders increasingly concerned by interfaith marriages
By Ira Rifkin — March 28, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (RNS)-Reform Judaism-the faith’s largest branch in North America with some 1.4-million members-has long been characterized by its liberal approach to interfaith marriages, accepting them as a fact of life in an open society. Currently, about 60 percent of Reform Jews are marrying non-Jews. In some southern and western states, the […]
TOP STORY: PALM SUNDAY AND EASTER: Revisiting the sites where Jesus last walked
By Elaine Fletcher — March 28, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service JERUSALEM (RNS)-It was in or near Bethpage, a Herodian-era cemetery marking the city limits of ancient Jerusalem, that the Easter story began on Palm Sunday. And from a similar site the Resurrection story unfolded a week later-a week marked by nadirs of agony and despair and pinnacles of joy. Even […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — March 28, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service Orthodox dispute prompts WCC concern (RNS)-World Council of Churches (WCC) General Secretary Konrad Raiser says the world body is watching with”profound concern”the dispute between the Russian Orthodox Church and the Ecumenical Patriarchate in Istanbul over the status of the Orthodox Church in Estonia. Raiser, an ordained minister of the Evangelical […]
COMMENTARY: On Good Friday, did Jesus feel like a failure?
By Dale Hanson Bourke — March 28, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (Dale Hanson Bourke is the author of”Turn Toward the Wind”and publisher of Religion News Service.) (RNS)-Jesus was fully human and fully divine. It is one of the basic tenets of Christian theology and one of the great paradoxes of history. And during this Christian holy season, much of the pomp […]
A gourmet Seder reveals chef’s Jewish roots
By Corrie Mitchell — March 28, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service VAIL, Colo. (RNS)-Why is this night different from all other nights? On this night we hold the Passover Seder at a posh ski resort in the Rockies. Like devoted Jewish cooks around the world, award-winning chef Jim Cohen will be in his kitchen Thursday, April 4, lovingly preparing a Seder, […]
SIDEBAR: Nouvelle Jewish cuisine for Passover
By RNS Blog Editor — March 28, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (RNS)-The following recipe for Passover Moroccan Lamb is also a delicious Easter dish, says Chef Jim Cohen of Wildflower, the signature restaurant of the Lodge at Vail, Colo., a Rocky Mountain resort that offers an annual “Ski and Seder” package. For dessert, Cohen serves Chocolate Nut Cake with Grilled Oranges. […]
From cross to empty tomb: Behind the story of Holy Saturday
By RNS Blog Editor — March 28, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (RNS)-They are words that echo in churches everywhere this time of year, sacred sentences that go to the heart of the Christian faith:”You seek Jesus of Nazareth, who was crucified. He is risen! He is not here. See the place where they laid Him.” Yet how many Christians know the […]
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