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COMMENTARY: What does it mean to be Catholic?
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(Andrew M. Greeley is a Roman Catholic priest, best-selling novelist and sociologist at the University of Chicago's National Opinion Research Center. His home page on the World Wide Web: http://www.greeley.com. Or contact him at his e-mail address: agre...
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REVIEW: Documentary restores the human dimension to Anne Frank
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(RNS)-Anne Frank's diary has been read by millions of schoolchildren. It has been made into a film, a Broadway play and a television special. Now, with the documentary"Anne Frank Remembered,"written, produced and directed by Jon Blair, an important char...
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COMMENTARY: A V chip? How about an E chip—for `Embarrassing?’
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(Dale Hanson Bourke is the author of"Turn Toward the Wind"and the publisher of Religion News Service.)
(RNS)-With the rating system for television programs gaining momentum, even the Europeans are getting into the act.
According to Variety, the Euro...
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TOP STORY: ARTS AND RELIGION: Houses of worship, temples of dreams
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(RNS)-Particles of light trickle through a stained-glass window. The beam of a movie projector casts scenes of grace and grandeur onto the screen of a hushed and darkened theater. To novelist John Updike, both images resonate with ideas of the sacred: t...
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TOP STORY: UNIFICATION CHURCH: Moon church takes a low profile in India
c. 1996 Religion News Service
MOOLAVATTOM, India (RNS)-It is a small, obscure town in India's southern state of Kerala, in the heart of one of the nation's largest, most conservative Christian communities.
Yet Moolavattom is where the Unification Church, founded in Korea in 1954 b...
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Maverick theologian Matthew Fox quits Holy Names College, strikes out on own
c. 1996 Religion News Service
OAKLAND, Calif. (RNS)-Breaking his last formal tie with Roman Catholicism, maverick theologian Matthew Fox will leave Oakland's College of the Holy Names in May to establish a new, independent educational institution, the"University of Creation Spiritua...
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Religious leader proposes major initiative on girls’ education
c. 1996 Religion News Service
WASHINGTON (RNS)-The Rev. Joan Brown Campbell, general secretary of the National Council of Churches, is proposing an interfaith effort in the United States and abroad to promote education for girls, including training about sexuality.
Girls have a ri...
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TOP STORY: JUDAISM AND HISTORY: Rome’s ancient Jewish ghetto to be studied anew
c. 1996 Religion News Service
ROME (RNS)-How many more revelations could possibly be unearthed about one of the world's oldest Jewish communities whose past has been thoroughly picked over and examined?
Jewish leaders say that a private $50,000 grant to modernize their archives da...
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NEWS FEATURE: Former `Sanford and Son’ star trades studio for pulpit
c. 1996 Religion News Service
MOBILE, Ala. _ When former television star Demond Wilson stands behind the pulpit, as he did recently at a small church here, he preaches the Gospel like any other fiery, charismatic evangelist.
``I love the Word,'' he shouted. ``If you got your sword...
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NEWS STORY: Evangelical group launches campaign backing Endangered Species Act
c. 1996 Religion News Service
WASHINGTON (RNS)-Saying the environment is a creation of God that must be protected, a group of evangelicals announced Wednesday (Jan. 31) a million-dollar media campaign to urge Congress not to weaken the Endangered Species Act."Human beings are called...
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