Ethics
NEWS FEATURE: Religions Changing Attitudes on suicide
c. 2000 Religion News Service
(UNDATED) Recently, The Rev. Charles Rubey, a priest with Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Chicago, talked with a mother whose son had committed suicide. The woman poured out her grief to him. But what made her anguish even more excruciating, Ru...
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COMMENTARY: A Boat Full of Fish and Nothing to Show for It
c. 2000 Religion News Service
(Les Kaye spent over 30 years in the high-tech, corporate world. He is the abbot of Kannon Do Zen Meditation Center in Mountain View, Calif., and author of ``Zen at Work'' (Random House, 1997). His e-mail address is medatwork(at)aol.com.)
(UNDATED) He...
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RNS Daily Digest
c. 2000 Religion News Service
Georgia Baptists Affirm New Southern Baptist Faith Statement
(RNS) Disagreeing with a famous fellow Baptist, delegates to the Georgia Baptist Convention affirmed the new faith statement of the Southern Baptist Convention at their annual meeting Tues...
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COMMENTARY: With a New Granddaughter, Who Could Ask for More?
c. 2000 Religion News Service
(Rabbi Rudin is the Senior Interreligious Adviser of the American Jewish Committee.)
(UNDATED) What do you call a newborn child whose parents, Eve and Robbie, are both rabbis? The answer is simple: Emma Mollie Weiner, our first grandchild.
Because o...
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COMMENTARY: The Moments for Which We Give Thanks
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. His new book, ``The Unhealed Wound: The Church and Human Sexuality,'' will be published by St. Martin's Press in the...
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COMMENTARY: Surviving By Faith
c. 2000 Religion News Service
(Dale Hanson Bourke is the author of five books and the mother of two children.)
(UNDATED) The sounds of the choir joined forces with the sight of the morning sun just as the voices rose in unison, ``I sing because I'm happy, I sing because I'm free.'...
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RNS Daily Digest
c. 2000 Religion News Service
Georgia Baptists Affirm New Southern Baptist Faith Statement
(RNS) Disagreeing with a famous fellow Baptist, delegates to the Georgia Baptist Convention affirmed the new faith statement of the Southern Baptist Convention at their annual meeting Tues...
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NEWS STORY: Lieberman a Leader in Fight Against Assisted Suicide Law
c. 2000 Religion News Service
WASHINGTON _ Vice President Al Gore's choice of Sen. Joseph Lieberman, D-Conn., as his running mate raises the odds that Oregon's law allowing physician-assisted suicide will be a target of the new administration, no matter which party wins the White Ho...
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NEWS FEATURE: RU-486’s Debut Is Likely to Alter Abortion Debate
c. 2000 Religion News Service
WASHINGTON _ As supporters and opponents of legal abortion prepare to square off one more time to mark the Jan. 22 anniversary of the 1973 Supreme Court decision legalizing most abortions, the Food and Drug Administration is quietly preparing to radical...
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NEWS STORY: Lieberman a Leader in Fight Against Assisted Suicide Law
c. 2000 Religion News Service
WASHINGTON _ Vice President Al Gore's choice of Sen. Joseph Lieberman, D-Conn., as his running mate raises the odds that Oregon's law allowing physician-assisted suicide will be a target of the new administration, no matter which party wins the White Ho...
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