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COMMENTARY: The Singer, Not the Song
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 death of the distin...
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NEWS FEATURE: Durer Exhibit Focuses on Suffering Jesus
c. 2000 Religion News Service
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. _ A new Harvard University art exhibit has self-consciously defied museum trends by drawing attention to the religious feelings motivating a great artist of the Reformation era.
``Durer's Passions,'' which opened Sept. 9 at the Busch-...
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NEWS STORY: Research finds religious people don’t like religious TV
c. 2000 Religion News Service
ANAHEIM, Calif. _ In a study commissioned by a Christian broadcasting network, a third of the viewers polled who consider themselves evangelical Christians said they don't like religious television.
The figure jumps to 60 percent for people who say th...
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NEWS FEATURE: Artist Brings Meditative Labyrinths to Capitol Hill
c. 2000 Religion News Service
WASHINGTON _ According to legend, kings in ancient Scotland strolled the passageways of labyrinths when they needed to meditate or ponder difficult decisions. Within labyrinths, it was thought, lay the route to wisdom, peace and knowledge.
Centuries l...
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NEWS FEATURE: Retiring `Peanuts’ Captured a Cultural, Spiritual Era
c. 2000 Religion News Service
(UNDATED) Rats! Charlie Brown and his pals are leaving us!
As everyone knows, the final"Peanuts"strip appears on Sunday, Feb. 13. Saying goodbye to Snoopy and the gang is breaking the hearts of millions. It's a painful cultural milestone for everyone...
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COMMENTARY: Probing Shavuot
c. 2000 Religion News Service
(Rabbi Rudin is the national interreligious affairs director of the American Jewish Committee.)
(UNDATED) The holiday of Shavuot, which will be celebrated June 9 and 10, is called the birthday of the Jewish religion because it marks the time when the...
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COMMENTARY: The Singer, Not the Song
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 death of the distin...
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RNS Daily Digest
c. 1999 Religion News Service
Controversial painting of Virgin Mary sabotaged at Brooklyn museum
(RNS) A controversial painting of the Virgin Mary was smeared with white paint Thursday (Dec. 16) by a visitor to the Brooklyn Museum of Art.
Dennis Heiner, 72, was arrested immediat...
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NEWS FEATURE: A Contemporary Craftsman Renews an Ancient Art
c. 2000 Religion News Service
WASHINGTON _ Alexander Sokolov was 17 years-old when he stumbled upon a crossroads for his love of art and Orthodox Christianity, his newly adopted religion: painting religious icons.
``When I first started making them, they were for me an image of a...
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NEWS FEATURE: New View of Botticelli _ As Illustrator of Dante’s ``Divine Comedy’’
c. 2000 Religion News Service
ROME (RNS) _ Sandro Botticelli, the Renaissance painter best known for his Venus, his angels and his flowery allegory of springtime, emerges in a new role in a unique Holy Year exhibit: as illustrator of Dante's religious and literary masterpiece, `...
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