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COMMENTARY: Biblical events as TV events
c. 1999 Religion News Service
(Rabbi Rudin is national interreligious affairs director of the American Jewish Committee.)
UNDATED _ My addiction to all-news TV networks set me wondering how the events of the Jewish festival of Shavuot (May 21-22) might have been covered if televis...
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COMMENTARY: Sure route to self-knowledge: how we react to death
c. 1999 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's Press.)
UNDATED _ Death is often spoken of...
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COMMENTARY: Can’t art ever speak for itself?
c. 1999 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 _ New York's Mayor Rudy Giuli...
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COMMENTARY:‘We are all sinners’: Like Hell we are”
c. 1999 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 _ America is as awash in fake...
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COMMENTARY: A realistic view of the second time around
c. 1999 Religion News Service
(Dale Hanson Bourke is publisher of RNS.)
UNDATED _ What exactly is sin and what are its consequences?
It's not a question raised in polite conversations. It's not even a discussion heard in most churches these days.
Calling something a sin seems...
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COMMENTARY: It’s time to lighten your load
c. 1999 Religion News Service
(Dale Hanson Bourke is publisher of RNS. She has given up writing complete sentences for Lent.)
UNDATED _ Talk about lousy timing.
The Dow breaks 10,000, Monica sells a boatload of books and the manufacturer of her interview lipstick can't make the...
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COMMENTARY: And now a word from Martha Stewart’s guardian angel
c. 1999 Religion News Service
(Dale Hanson Bourke is publisher of RNS)
UNDATED _ Dear Martha:
Well, girl, you have really done it now. From what I hear, going public is about as big as it gets on Earth. And you did it all on your own.
Heaven knows you have been as easy a case...
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NEWS FEATURE: At 86, retired archbishop has new dream stirring
c. 1999 Religion News Service
NEW ORLEANS _ He is a familiar figure on balmy evenings, trodding the grassy bank of Bayou St. John, eyes down, a rosary dangling from one hand. His gait is a bit more of a shuffle than it used to be, and one shoulder tends to droop a bit. Usually he is...
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NEWS FEATURE: Artisan blends old and new in creating, recreating sacred space
c. 1999 Religion News Service
CHICAGO _ One brief glimpse of Joseph Luis Ramirez's restoration of St. Scholastica's chapel takes one through a tunnel of artistic time. A luminous countenance of a welcoming Jesus initiates the journey. Angels, apostles, saints and martyrs flank the...
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NEWS FEATURE: Holiday book guide on religion and spirituality
c. 1998 Religion News Service
UNDATED _ Every year, American publishers release around 50,000 titles to an often dazed book-buying public.
With the arrival of the colder months, many bibliophiles snap up larger than usual numbers of volumes _ some intended for personal pleasure on...
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