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COMMENTARY: Human pain has no half life
c. 1998 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 _ In an old photograph, the f...
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NEWS STORY: Ambivalent America marks 25th anniversary of Roe vs. Wade
c. 1998 Religion News Service
WASHINGTON _ Partisans on both sides of the explosive abortion issue took their case to an increasingly ambivalent American public Thursday (Jan. 22) as the nation marked the 25th anniversary of the Supreme Court's Roe vs. Wade decision legalizing most...
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RNS Daily Digest
c. 1998 Religion News Service
Beliefs, caring attitude, good sermons draw church members
(RNS) American churchgoers cite three significant factors in their choice of a church _ its beliefs and doctrine, how much people in the congregation care about each other, and the quality o...
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NEWS STORY: Catholic editor stunned by reaction to controversial abortion editorial
c. 1998 Religion News Service
VANCOUVER, British Columbia _ The editor of Roman Catholic archdiocese of Vancouver's newspaper says he felt like he was hit by a truck when he ignited a continent-wide furor over an editorial in which he admitted part of him was"pleased"about the murde...
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NEWS ANALYSIS: Political nuns face more than physical danger
c. 1998 Religion News Service
UNDATED _ The admission was a long time coming: Four former Salvadoran guardsmen said they had not acted alone in the killing of three North American nuns and a church worker 17 years ago. They took their orders from higher military authorities, they sa...
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COMMENTARY: Legal abortion faces a tougher future
c. 1998 Religion News Service
(David Sarasohn is an associate editor at The Oregonian of Portland, Ore.) UNDATED _ If there were a poster girl for this week's 25th anniversary of the Roe vs. Wade decision, it would be the woman interviewed by The New York Times who declared firml...
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NEWS FEATURE: Buddhist hospital chaplain breaks new ground
c. 1998 Religion News Service
HERSHEY, Pa. _ The hospital bedside conversation was routine _ small talk meant to break the ice. It consisted of little more than chaplain J. Anthony Stultz asking patient Jeremy Bentley how his recovery from being struck by a car was going (well, Bent...
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COMMENTARY: Catholic bishops `playing doctor’ with health care
c. 1998 Religion News Service
(Frances Kissling is president of Catholics for a Free Choice, based in Washington, D.C., an independent organization that advocates for women's reproductive health rights.)
UNDATED _ Many people worry about doctors playing God. And so a lot of effort...
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NEWS PROFILE: Finley Schaef: memories of the abortion underground before Roe vs. Wade
c. 1998 Religion News Service
UNDATED _ The Rev. Finley Schaef still remembers the woman and her teen-age daughter who visited his Methodist church office in Queens, N.Y., more than 30 years ago faced with a desperate dilemma.
The daughter, the victim of a rape at the hands of her...
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NEWS STORY: Catholic bishops: make abortion priority in voting
c. 1998 Religion News Service
UNDATED _ Leaders of the nation's largest church are urging their 60-million-member flock to make"defending life"their No. 1 concern at the ballot box. And Roman Catholic politicians are being warned they endanger their eternal salvation by supporting l...
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