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COMMENTARY: Rocker For Congress
c. 2000 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. Check out his home page at http://www.agreeley.com or contact him via e-mail at agreel(at)aol.com.)
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NEWS FEATURE: For Cuban Children, Life Can Be Good, Even Without Happy Meals
c. 2000 Religion News Service
HAVANA _ Home plate is a pothole in the middle of the street. First base is a chip on the curb. Second base is an asphalt mark in the street, and third base is a concrete patch visible amid dirt covering a driveway.
Give 6-year-old Jose Carlos Prieto...
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NEWS FEATURE: For Cuban Children, Life Can Be Good, Even Without Happy Meals
c. 2000 Religion News Service
HAVANA _ Home plate is a pothole in the middle of the street. First base is a chip on the curb. Second base is an asphalt mark in the street, and third base is a concrete patch visible amid dirt covering a driveway.
Give 6-year-old Jose Carlos Prieto...
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NEWS STORY: Pope leaves St. Louis, calls millennium a time for"spiritual renewal”
c. 1999 Religion News Service
ST. LOUIS _ Pope John Paul II said goodbye to this city _ and perhaps for the last time to the United States _ returning to Rome Wednesday (Jan. 27) after telling 100,000 Catholics gathered for the largest indoor Mass ever to look toward the millennium...
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COMMENTARY: She’s a great kid and her father doesn’t know it
c. 1999 Religion News Service
(Samuel K. Atchison is an ordained minister and has worked as a policy analyst and social worker to the homeless. He currently is a prison chaplain in Trenton, N.J.)
UNDATED _ One afternoon in the spring of 1990, I came home from work to find my wife...
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NEWS FEATURE: Taking the field with a prayer and a powerful swing
c. 1999 Religion News Service
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. _ The song ``Taking Care of Business'' was blasting over the loudspeaker at Joe Davis Stadium on a recent hot, humid Sunday afternoon.
Huntsville attorney Rod Steakley, a deacon at Whitesburg Baptist Church and volunteer chaplain for...
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NEWS FEATURE: Some pro players depend on faith on the road, at home
c. 1999 Religion News Service
ATLANTA _ Keith Lockhart was on a cell phone aboard a plane, listening closely as his wife, Lisa, gave him a play-by-play of his son's baseball game."I listened until we got too far away from the signal,"said Lockhart wistfully."That's when it's really...
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COMMENTARY: Why do alumni care now?
c. 1999 Religion News Service
(Tom Ehrich is a writer and computer consultant managing large-scale database implementations. An Episcopal priest, he lives in Durham, N.C.)
DURHAM, N.C. _ In this hotbed of college basketball, performances on the gridiron don't stir much heat.
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COMMENTARY: The high price of entertainment
c. 1999 Religion News Service
(Samuel K. Atchison is an ordained minister and has worked as a policy analyst and social worker to the homeless. He currently is a prison chaplain in Trenton, N.J.)
UNDATED _ A clever series of commercials currently airing on the FOX television netwo...
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COMMENTARY: A Meditation for World Series Time
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 _ We learn a great deal about...
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