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COMMENTARY: Everyone is lovable

RNS Blog Editor | Feb 3, 1999

c. 1999 Religion News Service (Les Kaye is the abbot of Kannon Do Zen Meditation Center in Mountain View, California and author of"Zen at Work."He can be reached at medatwork(AT)aol.com.) UNDATED _ The record of human history traces key events, individuals, and social forces that contour civiliz...
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NEWS FEATURE: Religious Objects Recycled for Needy Churches

RNS Blog Editor | Feb 3, 1999

c. 1999 Religion News Service UNDATED _ Sister Elias Freeman is an unlikely scavenger. But scavenger she is, her habit billowing in the chill of a January breeze, glasses glinting in the light, as she cajoles bigger and richer churches to give up their old bits of holy things so that those bits ca...
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NEWS FEATURE: Pope to deliver message for the millennium to Catholics of the Americas

RNS Blog Editor | Jan 14, 1999

c. 1999 Religion News Service VATICAN CITY _ Pope John Paul II will travel to Mexico City next week to deliver a message for the millennium to the more than 780 million Roman Catholics of the Americas. The Roman Catholic pontiff is expected to call on the Catholics of North, South and Central Am...
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NEWS STORY: Pope Makes it Official: Egan Will Succeed O’Connor

RNS Blog Editor | Jan 1, 1999

c. 2000 Religion News Service NEW YORK _ Pope John Paul II made official Thursday (May 11) what has been speculation for the past week _ Bishop Edward Egan of Bridgeport, Conn., a scholar, linguist and accomplished pianist, will succeed the late Cardinal John J. O'Connor as head of the Archdioce...
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NEWS FEATURE: Fixed-hour Prayer Moving Out of the Monastery

RNS Blog Editor | Jan 1, 1999

c. 2000 Religion News Service UNDATED _ The admonition is a simple one: ``Pray without ceasing,'' Paul advises in the New Testament book of Thessalonians. For centuries, Christians have honored that call to prayer through the practice of fixed-hour prayer _ the recitation of psalms, hymns, s...
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NEWS STORY: Did Bishops Muddy Water on Unions and Catholic Healthcare?

RNS Blog Editor | Jan 1, 1999

c. 2000 Religion News Service ST. LOUIS _ A panel of experts on Roman Catholic healthcare issues say the U.S.Catholiuc Conference _ the social action arm of the U.S. bishops _ say the bishops may have muddied the waters with a recent statment on the relationship of unions and the church's health...
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NEWS FEATURE: Christian Singer on the Verge of Stardom

RNS Blog Editor | Jan 1, 1999

c. 2000 Religion News Service ATHENS, Ala. _ Debbie White was ecstatic as she walked out of the historic Ryman Auditorium in Nashville after performing in front of a crowd of several thousand people and millions of television viewers for the Christian Country Music Association's annual Awards Sh...
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NEWS FEATURE: Skateboard ministry reaches troubled kids

RNS Blog Editor | Jan 1, 1999

c. 1999 Religion News Service NEWPORT, Del. _ A year ago, 15-year-old Fritz Dallago was poised for a ride on the fast-track to nowhere. He had adopted the all-black Goth look; he idolized Marilyn Manson; he had a bad attitude and little respect for authority, making life difficult for his aunt who w...
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NEWS FEATURE: Mary, as African Blessed Mother, signals change for New Orleans church

RNS Blog Editor | Jan 1, 1999

c. 1999 Religion News Service NEW ORLEANS _ To a 74-year-old church built by and for Catholic African-Americans during the Jazz Age, yet adorned with white images of Jesus, Mary and the saints who seem drawn from feudal Europe, an African Blessed Mother has come _ Mary"Our Mother of Africa." The 4...
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NEWS STORY: Adults urged to keep sending the message on teen sex

RNS Blog Editor | Jan 1, 1999

c. 1999 Religion News Service NEW ORLEANS _ Amid falling teen pregnancy rates, a national advocacy group is telling religious organizations to stick with their message on teen sexuality, whether it's condoms or abstinence _ because against all expectations, teens seem to be listening. Parents and...
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