Culture
NEWS STORY: ABORTION POLITICS: Conscience wars with pragmatism in South Africa abortion vote
c. 1996 Religion News Service
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa _ Under this nation's current abortion law, critics here say, poor women rarely manage to terminate a pregnancy legally and safely. But for affluent women it's not a problem. They simply board a plane bound for Europe to obtai...
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COMMENTARY: Living in a material world
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(Dale Hanson Bourke is the author of"Turn Toward the Wind"and publisher of Religion News Service.)
(UNDATED) The two stories ran 13 pages apart in the Sunday New York Times.
The first, just four pages into the first section, told the heartbreaking s...
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BODY & SOUL: Gambling is a poor bet for satisfying the soul
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(Body & Soul is a regular column exploring the interplay between spirituality and psychology. Pythia Peay is the author of"Putting America on the Couch,"to be published by Riverhead Books in 1997.)
(UNDATED) As his mother lay dying, Alex Walters' fath...
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COMMENTARY: Honoring Calvin Klein
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(Charles W. Colson, former special counsel to Richard Nixon, served a prison term for his role in the Watergate scandal. He now heads Prison Fellowship International, an evangelical Christian ministry to the imprisoned and their families. Contact Colson...
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TOP STORY: ANNULLING A CATHOLIC MARRIAGE: Catholic Church is changing its attitudes on annulment
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(UNDATED) After his divorce and before he remarried in the Roman Catholic Church, Joseph DeCastra of Hoover, Ala., applied for an annulment and got it in less than a year.
His was one of more than 59,000 U.S. annulments and 76,829 worldwide in 1992 _ a...
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DEATH AND DYING: Long before Kevorkian, Chicago doctor fueled death debate
c. 1996 Religion News Service
ANN ARBOR, Mich. _ Long before Jack Kevorkian helped his first patient die and even before his birth, another American doctor galvanized debate about physician-assisted deaths.
In 1915, Chicago surgeon Harry Haiselden held a news conference to announce...
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RNS Daily Digest
c. 1996 Religion News Service
National Catholic Reporter faces $30 million libel suit for labor story
(RNS) Briggs & Stratton, the Milwaukee, Wis.-based manufacturer of lawn mower and other small engines, has filed a $30 million lawsuit against the independent National Catholic Re...
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COMMENTARY: In defense of Gypsies
c. 1996 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. His home page on the World Wide Web is at http://www.agreeley.com. Or contact him via e-mail at agreel(...
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RNS Daily Digest
c. 1996 Religion News Service
Unitarians endorse same-sex marriages
(RNS) _ The Unitarian Universalist Association voted Tuesday (June 25) to endorse the legalization of same-sex marriages, the first U.S. denomination to do so.
Meeting in Indianapolis, delegates to the liberal...
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TOP STORY: RELIGION AND CULTURE
c. 1996 Religion News Service
ANGAHUAN, Mexico _ Speaking in a soft singsong, the town elder recalled villagers' fear when a strange hillock spewing fire and smoke broke through the furrows of Dionisio Pulido's cornfield."People began to cry, but it was the adults crying, and then t...
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