Monthly Archives: May 1998
COMMENTARY: What the Euro really means?
By RNS Blog Editor — May 8, 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 _ Someone should make a rule that journalists who pontificate about world events […]
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 […]
COMMENTARY: The delicate dance of mothering a man
By Dale Hanson Bourke — May 6, 1998
c. 1998 Religion News Service (Dale Hanson Bourke is the publisher of RNS and the mother of two boys.) UNDATED _ This Mother’s Day will be different. This Mother’s Day I will be the mother of a man. Sure, he’s still a teen-ager; not yet old enough to drive. But at some point during the […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — May 6, 1998
c. 1998 Religion News Service Old Calendarists Greek Orthodox group rejoins main church (RNS) A decades-old rift between an American faction of a Greek Orthodox splinter movement and the main church has been resolved, bringing about 30,000 of the separatists into the Greek Orthodox Church of America. The rift was formally healed Sunday (May 3) […]
NEWS STORY: Swiss Guard slaying shocks, saddens Vatican
By RNS Blog Editor — May 6, 1998
c. 1998 Religion News Service VATICAN CITY _ An apparently disgruntled young member of the Vatican’s Swiss Guard _ the elite body charged with protecting the pope _ Monday night (May 4) shot and killed the force’s commander, the commander’s wife and himself, Vatican officials have announced. The killings came just hours after Pope John […]
NEWS FEATURE: Christian Zionists embrace their faith’s Jewish roots
By Ira Rifkin — May 6, 1998
c. 1998 Religion News Service ORLANDO, Fla. _ Tears flowed from Jeanette Scott’s eyes as she draped a blue and white silk”tallit”_ a Jewish prayer shawl _ around her shoulders. Woven into the tallit was a depiction of Jerusalem’s Western Wall, Judaism’s holiest site.”The Lord was really putting an anointing on me,”said the 29-year-old woman.”I […]
NEWS SIDEBAR: Some advice on raising sensitive sons
By RNS Blog Editor — May 5, 1998
c. 1998 Religion News Service UNDATED _”My mother has given me life and love. I am flesh of her flesh, bone of her bone. I was born of her body, linked to her by nature. Thus, is she not my Adam, am I not her Eve?” With these poetic words, Ariel Chesler introduces his mother’s […]
NEWS SIDEBAR: Some advice on raising sensitive sons
By RNS Blog Editor — May 5, 1998
c. 1998 Religion News Service UNDATED _”My mother has given me life and love. I am flesh of her flesh, bone of her bone. I was born of her body, linked to her by nature. Thus, is she not my Adam, am I not her Eve?” With these poetic words, Ariel Chesler introduces his mother’s […]
NEWS FEATURE: On Mother’s Day, healing the mother-son bond
By RNS Blog Editor — May 5, 1998
c. 1998 Religion News Service UNDATED _ On Mother’s Day, the nation pays tribute to one of humankind’s most cherished relationships _ the tender caretaking a woman bestows upon her child. Beautifully rendered in religious pictures of the Divine Mother and Holy Child _ such as the Christian images of Mary and Jesus or the […]
NEWS STORY: White House officials meet with atheist group
By Adelle M. Banks — May 5, 1998
c. 1998 Religion News Service WASHINGTON _ The Clinton administration, which has made a point of reaching out to a wide spectrum of religious leaders, Monday hosted what is believed to be the first formal White House meeting between an organized atheist group and representatives of the president. Ron Barrier, national spokesman for American Atheists, […]
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