Faith
NEWS FEATURE: After a dip, Catholic school enrollment, constructiong rising again
c. 1998 Religion News Service
CHICAGO _ After years of plunging enrollment, the nation's Catholic schools are experiencing a resurgence in popularity, sparked in part by affluent, post-baby boomer parents demanding a morality-based education for their children.
In the past three d...
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NEWS FEATURE: Irish Catholic, Protestant teens learn cooperation at camp
c. 1998 Religion News Service
CARRIERE, Miss. _ Wobbling precariously on a taut steel cable strung two feet above the forest floor, 16 American and Irish teenagers squealed and whooped encouragement last week as they helped each other inch carefully toward a nearby tree that marked...
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NEWS STORY: Anglican bishops enter last days of Lambeth facing 100 resolutions
c. 1998 Religion News Service
CANTERBURY, England _ The Lambeth Conference, the once-a-decade gathering of the world's Anglican bishops, entered its final days Monday _ the endgame of the three-week gathering _ facing more than 100 resolutions that need to be debated and voted on du...
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NEWS STORY: Anglican bishops approve debt cancellation, find no consensus on euthanasia
c. 1998 Religion News Service
CANTERBURY, England _ Sharp divisions on aspects of medical treatment for the terminally ill forced Anglican bishops at the Lambeth Conference Thursday (Aug. 6) to postpone, at least temporarily, any action on the emotional and morally charged issue of...
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NEWS STORY: Anglican bishops take up Christian-Islam relations
c. 1998 Religion News Service
CANTERBURY, England _ Sharp contrasts in the relations between Christians and Muslims in different countries were highlighted Monday (July 27) when the Lambeth Conference took up the question of Muslim-Christian relations at a plenary session of the thr...
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NEWS ANALYSIS: Anglican Communion endures despite divisions over homosexuality
c. 1998 Religion News Service
CANTERBURY, England _ Once again _ as in 1978 and 1988 _ the prophets of doom got it wrong in predicting that seemingly unbridgeable gaps in culture and theology would split the Anglican Communion.
In 1978, the schismatic issue facing the world's Angl...
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NEWS FEATURE: Women priests, bishops generally accepted by Anglicans
c. 1998 Religion News Service
CANTERBURY, England _ In a university courtyard tucked in among the rolling hills overlooking the historic spires of Canterbury Cathedral, nine women formed a ring last week, held hands and prayed for progress.
``Pray for those bishops who cannot yet...
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NEWS STORY: Vatican official warns Anglican bishops on gays
c. 1998 Religion News Service
CANTERBURY, England _ Cardinal Edward Cassidy, the Vatican's top ecumenical official, warned Anglican prelates that any change by Anglicans toward greater acceptance of homosexuals could do further damage to relations between Rome and Canterbury.
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NEWS STORY: Dissenting bishops pledge `full inclusion’ of gays in Anglican church
c. 1998 Religion News Service
CANTERBURY, England _ A group of nearly 100 bishops, most from the United States and Britain, have apologized to gays and lesbians for"any sense of rejection"they might feel because of the Lambeth Conference's condemnation of homosexuality and pledged t...
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NEWS STORY: Coptic Christian leader urges unity, attention to youth
c. 1998 Religion News Service
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. _ Ecumenical relations among Christians and rigorous programs for youth are topping the agenda of Pope Shenouda III, the spiritual leader of the Coptic Christian Church currently on a pastoral visit to four U.S. cities.
In a speech Fr...
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