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Jewish plastic surgeon in trouble over ‘Jewcan Sam’ video
(RNS) A plastic surgeon in Miami who's also an Orthodox Jew is in trouble after commissioning an Orthodox Jewish band to do a music video about rhinoplasty called "Jewcan Sam" which has gone viral on YouTube. By Lauren Markoe.
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Company touts ‘medical tourism’ to Israel for sick pilgrims
JERUSALEM (RNS) An Israel-based tourism company is offering "medical tourism" packages that combines medical care with a pilgrimage for the thousands of Americans who travel abroad for medical care. By Michele Chabin.
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From the RNS archives: Catholic birth control decree remains controversial
This article was written in 2008, around the 40th anniversary of Humanae Vitae, the papal document that reinforced the Catholic Church's ban on artificial birth control.
c. 2008 Religion News Service
(RNS) Some say Pope Paul VI predicted the dangers of loosening sexual morals: w...
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British group can’t tout divine healing in ads, website
LONDON (RNS) Britain's powerful media advertising watchdog has banned a Christian activist group from claiming that God's cure-all powers can heal a string of medical ailments. By Al Webb.
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Monday’s Religion Roundup: Embryo skirmishes, birth control battles, Star Wars theology
Newt Gingrich wants a ban on embryonic stem cell research, Romney doesn't. Santorum's daughter makes "miraculous" recovery, he looks for political miracle in Florida. Obama, birth control, and the Catholic vote. Andrew Sullivan's fan in the Vatican. And more...
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Billy Graham released from hospital
(RNS) Evangelist Billy Graham returned to his North Carolina home Tuesday (Dec. 6) after a six-day stay in a nearby hospital where he was treated for pneumonia.
Graham, 93, responded well to antibiotics and grew stronger and more mobile after physical therapy, said Dr. Mark Hellrich,...
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Church wrestles with growth of Wisconsin shrine to Mary
CHAMPION, Wis. (RNS) Philip and Barbara Hesselbein came to the Shrine of Our Lady of Good Help to pray for a grandson who has an inoperable brain tumor.
Darlene Searcy prayed for her family and for herself; she has cancer.
Mary Spakowicz, who also has cancer, came "because God will he...
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GUEST COMMENTARY: Southern Baptists, change thy name
CHAMPION, Wis. (RNS) Philip and Barbara Hesselbein came to the Shrine of Our Lady of Good Help to pray for a grandson who has an inoperable brain tumor.
Darlene Searcy prayed for her family and for herself; she has cancer.
Mary Spakowicz, who also has cancer, came "because God will he...
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Monday Godbytes
Daniel Macguire over at Religion Dispatches asks if there is a Catholic "turnabout" on abortion.
In other Catholic news, Tom Beaudoin over at America Magazine wonders what would happen if "Occupy Wall Street" happened within the Catholic Church.
Meanwhile, CNN reports that the trial o...
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Crisis pregnancy group reflects Jewish divide on abortion
SILVER SPRING, Md. (RNS) Saraleah was 19 and a part-time student when she discovered she was pregnant. She didn't know how it could have happened -- until she flashed back to a party nine weeks earlier where she was given a drink, realized it was vodka and then passed ou...
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