Monthly Archives: January 2000
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — January 11, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service Reported suggestion that pope should resign stirs controversy (RNS) A reported suggestion by an influential German bishop that Pope John Paul II should resign if ill health prevents him from doing his job stirred controversy today among Roman Catholic leaders.”The church is neither Fiat nor General Motors,”Bishop Alessandro Maggiolini of […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — January 11, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service Reported suggestion that pope should resign stirs controversy (RNS) A reported suggestion by an influential German bishop that Pope John Paul II should resign if ill health prevents him from doing his job stirred controversy today among Roman Catholic leaders.”The church is neither Fiat nor General Motors,”Bishop Alessandro Maggiolini of […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — January 7, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service NCC Representative Cheers INS Decision to Return Cuban Boy (RNS) The former general secretary of the National Council of Churches has welcomed the decision by the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service that 6-year-old Elian Gonzalez should be returned to Cuba. “The decision of the INS to give custody of Elian […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — January 7, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service NCC Representative Cheers INS Decision to Return Cuban Boy (RNS) The former general secretary of the National Council of Churches has welcomed the decision by the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service that 6-year-old Elian Gonzalez should be returned to Cuba. “The decision of the INS to give custody of Elian […]
COMMENTARY: The World Didn’t End _ Again
By RNS Blog Editor — January 7, 2000
c. 2000 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 Press.) UNDATED The coming of 2000 was a great disappointment to those people who, as the great German […]
COMMENTARY: The World Didn’t End _ Again
By RNS Blog Editor — January 7, 2000
c. 2000 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 Press.) UNDATED The coming of 2000 was a great disappointment to those people who, as the great German […]
NEWS STORY: Ignoring Chinese challenge, pope ordains bishops for the universal church
By RNS Blog Editor — January 7, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service VATICAN CITY Ignoring a challenge from China’s government-controlled “patriotic” church, Pope John Paul II consecrated 12 new bishops Thursday (Jan. 6) that he said represented “the universality” of the Roman Catholic Church. The pope elevated the prelates, one of them an American, at a solemn Epiphany mass in St. Peter’s […]
COMMENTARY: Resolutions Time
By James Rudin — January 7, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service (Rabbi Rudin is the national interreligious affairs director of the American Jewish Committee.) UNDATED It’s time for New Year’s resolutions, and although no one has asked me, here is an unsolicited pair intended for the presidential candidates of both parties. Hopefully, my resolutions will be adopted quickly by the politicians […]
NEWS FEATURE: Fewer Churches Opting for Cry Rooms
By Kristen Campbell — January 4, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service UNDATED _ While Jesus, according to the Gospel of Matthew, encouraged the little ones to come unto him, churchgoers in modern America do not easily suffer children’s outbursts. Providing space for loud, fidgety and sometimes crying children during services has long been a concern for those designing and using churches. […]
NEWS FEATURE: Fewer Churches Opting for Cry Rooms
By Kristen Campbell — January 4, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service UNDATED _ While Jesus, according to the Gospel of Matthew, encouraged the little ones to come unto him, churchgoers in modern America do not easily suffer children’s outbursts. Providing space for loud, fidgety and sometimes crying children during services has long been a concern for those designing and using churches. […]
NEWS STORY: While Many Partied, Some Prayed in the New Millennium
By Adelle M. Banks — January 4, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service UNDATED _ While secular festivities welcomed 2000 from Sydney to Seattle, religious leaders and grass-roots worshippers paused to mark the celebrated calendar change in spiritual ways. From the pope’s first-ever New Year’s Eve midnight appearance to the clangings of bells in Buddhist temples in Asia to Sunday services across the […]
NEWS STORY: While Many Partied, Some Prayed in the New Millennium
By Adelle M. Banks — January 4, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service UNDATED _ While secular festivities welcomed 2000 from Sydney to Seattle, religious leaders and grass-roots worshippers paused to mark the celebrated calendar change in spiritual ways. From the pope’s first-ever New Year’s Eve midnight appearance to the clangings of bells in Buddhist temples in Asia to Sunday services across the […]
NEWS STORY: Pope Begins Crowded Jubilee Year Schedule
By RNS Blog Editor — January 4, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service VATICAN CITY _ Greeting the new millennium with an appeal for peace and a party for tens of thousands of children, Pope John Paul II has embarked on a crowded Jubilee schedule that will test his endurance to the limit. The Christmas and New Year’s festivities were only the start […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — January 4, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service NCC Leaders Meet With Father of Cuban Boy in Custody Battle (RNS) Representatives of the National Council of Churches have met with the Cuban father of a 6-year-old boy who was rescued at sea and hope to aid his son’s return from the United States.”We are puzzled why it has […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — January 4, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service NCC Leaders Meet With Father of Cuban Boy in Custody Battle (RNS) Representatives of the National Council of Churches have met with the Cuban father of a 6-year-old boy who was rescued at sea and hope to aid his son’s return from the United States.”We are puzzled why it has […]
