Monthly Archives: October 1999
NEWS DIGEST:
By RNS Blog Editor — October 30, 1999
c. 1999 Religion News Service Eds: Check RNS StoryPix for a photo to accompany the 2nd item on Catholicos Karekin II. Carter working with Graham to help suffering Iraqis (RNS) Former President Jimmy Carter has sharply criticized the U.S. policy of sanctions against Iraq and said he is working with evangelist Billy Graham to help […]
COMMENTARY: Beautiful women in the Louvre
By RNS Blog Editor — October 30, 1999
c. 1999 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 agreelaol.com.) PARIS _ I suspect that most people go to the Louvre mainly out of […]
COMMENTARY: Remarkable meeting in Lynchburg worthy of praise
By David P. Gushee — October 29, 1999
c. 1999 Religion News Service (David P. Gushee is director of the Center for Christian Leadership and associate professor of Christian Studies at Union University in Jackson, Tenn.) UNDATED _ A most remarkable encounter occurred recently on the campus of Thomas Road Baptist Church in Lynchburg, Va. The Oct. 23 meeting was sponsored by the […]
NEWS STORY: Pope condemns those who `wage war in the name of religion’
By RNS Blog Editor — October 29, 1999
c. 1999 Religion News Service VATICAN CITY _ Addressing representatives of the world’s faiths at a dramatic twilight ceremony Thursday (Oct. 28) in St. Peter’s Square, Pope John Paul II condemned those who”wage war in the name of religion.””Any use of religion to support violence is an abuse of religion,”the Roman Catholic pontiff said.”Religion is […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — October 29, 1999
c. 1999 Religion News Service House votes to ban doctors from prescriptions leading to suicide (RNS) The House, alarmed by an Oregon law permitting physician-assisted suicide, has passed a bill that would make it a federal crime for doctors to prescribe drugs to help terminally ill patients take their lives. The legislation was approved on […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — October 28, 1999
c. 1999 Religion News Service Tax complaint filed against New Orleans church over political acts (RNS) A national public interest group has filed a tax complaint against a small New Orleans church, asking the Internal Revenue Service to determine whether the church went too far in backing a candidate for governor. Americans United for Separation […]
COMMENTARY: `Our’ flight and `our’ mystery
By Frances Kennedy — October 28, 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 _ The National Transportation Safety Board is our national insurance policy against the terror of the unknown. In […]
NEWS FEATURE: Christian conservatives reconsider Y2K disaster warnings
By Ira Rifkin — October 27, 1999
c. 1999 Religion News Service UNDATED _ As 1998 drew to a close and the nation suddenly became awash in predictions of possible Year 2000 computer meltdowns, nowhere was the doom and gloom more prevalent than among conservative Christians. Radio and television programs, Web sites and book publishers catering to evangelical and Pentecostal Christians warned […]
NEWS STORY: Renegade Orthodox group targets minority faiths in former Soviet republic
By Christa Brown — October 26, 1999
c. 1999 Religion News Service TBILISI, Georgia _ Lying in a hospital ward here with blurred vision and a bruised body, Fati Tabagari described in calm, level tones how she and her 13-year-old son were beaten Oct. 17 by a mob of renegade Orthodox Christians. Tabagari, a 40-year-old housewife, was among 20 Jehovah’s Witnesses hospitalized […]
NEWS FEATURE: `The witch next door’ has neighbors choosing up sides
By Bryan Denson — October 26, 1999
c. 1999 Religion News Service ST. HELENS, Ore. _ Some of Kimberly Balog’s neighbors think she’s a real witch, and they’re not wrong. As high priestess of the Circle of Creative Spirit, Balog is a devotee of Wicca, a neo-pagan faith with an estimated 100,000 followers in North America. They call themselves witches _ good […]
COMMENTARY: Gregorian chant
By RNS Blog Editor — October 26, 1999
c. 1999 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.) PARIS _ Notre Dame de Paris pretty much fills up for the 10:00 a.m. […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — October 26, 1999
c. 1999 Religion News Service Update: Cardinal O’Connor released from hospital (RNS) Cardinal John O’Connor was released from the hospital Wednesday (Oct. 20) to continue his recovery from brain tumor surgery at home. The leader of more than 2 million Catholics in New York was hospitalized Monday with side effects from radiation treatment. He was […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — October 26, 1999
c. 1999 Religion News Service Falwell pledges to examine rhetoric for anti-gay hostility (RNS) On the eve of a meeting between the Rev. Jerry Falwell and other conservative Christian ministers and the Rev. Mel White and religious supporters of gay rights, Falwell has pledged to examine his writing and preaching to ensure it does not […]
NEWS STORY: Falwell, gays to seek a truce, fight anti-gay violence
By Ed White — October 26, 1999
c. 1999 Religion News Service HUNTSVILLE, Ala. _ The Rev. Felicia Fontaine’s voice quivered and her eyes misted as she recalled an event that had both historical and spiritual significance in her life.”It was Feb. 14, 1987, and I was attending the March Against New Racism in Montgomery (Ala.),”said Fontaine, retired pastor of the Metropolitan […]
Monday News Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — October 19, 1999
c. 1999 Religion News Service Eds: Note embargoed paragraphs at end of the following item Catholic magazine says beatifying Pope Pius XII would be”inopportune” (RNS) Beatifying Pope Pius XII, who headed the Roman Catholic Church during World War II, would be”inopportune”at this time, says America, a Catholic weekly magazine. Instead, the magazine called for establishment […]
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