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NEWS STORY: Pope Has Tracheotomy After Relapse of Flu
c. 2005 Religion News Service
VATICAN CITY _ Doctors performed a successful tracheotomy on Pope John Paul II Thursday to help the ailing pontiff recover from breathing problems related to a relapse of the flu, the Vatican said.
A tracheotomy is an urgent procedure in which a hole...
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Pope Releases New Book, Jewish Groups Protest Holocaust Reference
c. 2005 Religion News Service
ROME _ In a new book, Pope John Paul II reflects on the ``ideologies of evil'' in the forms of Nazism, Communism and abortion and reveals that he believed he was dying when he was rushed to a hospital after an attempt on his life in 1981.
The pope als...
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COMMENTARY: Doctors Can Now List Heartbreak Right Before Heartburn
c. 2005 Religion News Service
(UNDATED) Science now confirms what you learned the hard way: that there is such a thing as heartbreak.
Plain and homely heartbreak, however, is abstracted into ``myocardial stunning'' marked by elevated ``stress hormone levels,'' according to the doc...
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NEWS STORY: `Cured’ Pope Leaves Hospital to Return to Vatican
c. 2005 Religion News Service
VATICAN CITY _ Pope John Paul II returned to the Vatican Thursday (Feb. 10), pronounced cured of the acute breathing problems that forced his emergency hospitalization nine days earlier.
The 84-year-old Roman Catholic pontiff left Rome's Agostino Geme...
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NEWS STORY: Pope Opens Penitential Season of Lent With Ashes in His Hospital Room
c. 2005 Religion News Service
VATICAN CITY _ Unable for the first time in his 26 years as Roman Catholic pontiff to preside over an Ash Wednesday church service, Pope John Paul II opened the penitential season of Lent (on Feb. 9) from his hospital room.
Vatican spokesman Joaquin N...
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NEWS FEATURE: Cycling Through: Buddhist Beliefs Help Tsunami Survivors Cope
c. 2005 Religion News Service
KHAO LAK, Thailand _ A Buddhist monk garbed in bright orange came to Yan Yao temple to look for his missing father days after tsunamis battered the coastline here. He gave a DNA sample and was told his father was dead _ engulfed by a giant wave.
The m...
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COMMENTARY: Is Judaism Pro-Choice?
c. 2004 Religion News Service
(Judy Gruen's latest book is ``Till We Eat Again: Confessions of a Diet Dropout,'' published by Champion Press. Visit her Web site at http://www.judygruen.com.)
(UNDATED) Earlier this spring, I received an e-mail from a well known Jewish women's organ...
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NEWS STORY: Bush Signs `Partial-birth’ Abortion Ban
c. 2003 Religion News Service
WASHINGTON _ Interrupted by standing ovations and shouts of ``amen,'' President Bush signed the ``partial-birth'' abortion ban into law Wednesday (Nov. 5) while abortion rights advocates prepared an attempt to reverse the ban in the courts.
``For year...
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NEWS STORY: Bush Signs `Partial-birth’ Abortion Ban
c. 2003 Religion News Service
WASHINGTON _ Interrupted by standing ovations and shouts of ``amen,'' President Bush signed the ``partial-birth'' abortion ban into law Wednesday (Nov. 5) while abortion rights advocates prepared an attempt to reverse the ban in the courts.
``For year...
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NEWS STORY: Ancient Solomon Temple-Related Tablet Discovered in Jerusalem
c. 2003 Religion News Service
JERUSALEM _ A 2,800 year-old stone tablet inscribed with a passage describing the renovation of Solomon's Temple has been discovered in Jerusalem and may be the first bit of archaeological evidence to confirm biblical descriptions of Solomon's dynasty a...
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