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Black churches push prostate cancer awareness
(RNS) Thomas A. Farrington isn't looking for cards or a tie this Father's Day. What he really wants, he says, is for other black men sitting in the pews with a prostate cancer diagnosis to know they're not alone.
Two years ago, Farrington, the founder of the Boston-based Prostate Heal...
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Lawyers: Faith-healing parents sought care for daughter
OREGON CITY, Ore. (RNS) Two faith-healing parents pleaded with child-welfare workers for permission to take their infant daughter to a doctor and keep her out of state custody, defense attorneys said Tuesday (May 31).
The Oregon Department of Human Services refused the request and, on...
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Q&A with Elizabeth Smart
(RNS) For 18 months, she wasn't a famous kidnapping survivor, nor the star witness in a headline-grabbing trial, nor the face of nonprofit group designed to help young abuse victims.
She was simply Sister Smart.
Elizabeth Smart, now 23, talked about her Mormon mission -- an overseas a...
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Hawking says heaven is for `people afraid of the dark’
LONDON (RNS) Professor Stephen Hawking, one of the world's most eminent scientists, says the concept of heaven is "a fairy story for people afraid of the dark."
In an interview with London's Guardian newspaper, the 69-year-old Cambridge University cosmologist said that as a victim of...
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Pope to speak to international space station
VATICAN CITY (RNS) Pope Benedict XVI will speak via satellite with astronauts on the International Space Station on Saturday (May 21), the first time a pope has conversed with astronauts in space.
The Rev. Federico Lombardi, director of the Holy See Press Office, told reporters on Tue...
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Study: 2 in 10 atheist scientists are `spiritual’
(RNS) More than 20 percent of atheist scientists consider themselves to be "spiritual," according to a Rice University study.
The findings, to be published in the June issue of the journal Sociology of Religion, are based on in-depth interviews with 275 natural and social scientists f...
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Study links reliance on God with reliance on treatment
(RNS) Cancer patients who consider the length of their lives to be "in God's hands" are more willing than others to spend money on treatments that might extend their lives, a new study shows.
Michelle Martin, an assistant professor at the University of Alabama, based her research on f...
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Naming saints isn’t an easy or quick process
NEW YORK (RNS) Pope John Paul II will move one step closer to sainthood when he is beatified during an elaborate Vatican ceremony on Sunday (May 1). While the Roman Catholic Church has held up heroes, patrons, intercessors and spiritual companions for centuries, the path to sainthood...
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Miracles claimed from late pope’s intercession
VATICAN CITY (RNS) Jesse was just 10 days old in November 2009 when he was diagnosed with Herpes simplex, a virus often lethal to a newborn child. Doctors at Children's National Medical Center in Washington, D.C. told his parents that he had no better than a 50 percent chance of survi...
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Spotlight on abortion activist makes some Catholics nervous
WASHINGTON (RNS) Anti-abortion activist Lila Rose has shared the stage with Sarah Palin, seen her exploits extolled on Fox News and drawn comparisons to heroic Gentiles who sheltered Jews during the Holocaust.
So why are some conservative Christians so uneasy about her work?
The teleg...
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