Faith
COMMENTARY: Vatican officials are unconcerned about U.S. annulment controversy
c. 1997 Religion News Service
(Thomas Patrick Melady, president emeritus of Sacred Heart University, is former U.S. Ambassador to the Vatican and chairman of the Catholic Campaign for America.)
VATICAN CITY _ Vatican authorities have noted _ but are not especially concerned about...
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COMMENTARY: The Death of a Prison Guard: A Chaplain’s View
c. 1997 Religion News Service
(Samuel K. Atchison is an ordained minister and has worked as a policy analyst and social worker to the homeless. He currently is a prison chaplain in Trenton, N.J.)
UNDATED _ I have an eerie feeling in my bones. It is a sense of uncertainty and antic...
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COMMENTARY: The impotence of the church
c. 1997 Religion News Service
(Samuel K. Atchison is an ordained minister and has worked as a policy analyst and social worker to the homeless. He currently is a prison chaplain in Trenton, N.J.)
UNDATED _ An incident in the prison where I am a chaplain underscores the reason many...
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COMMENTARY: The impotence of the church
c. 1997 Religion News Service
(Samuel K. Atchison is an ordained minister and has worked as a policy analyst and social worker to the homeless. He currently is a prison chaplain in Trenton, N.J.)
UNDATED _ An incident in the prison where I am a chaplain underscores the reason many...
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COMMENTARY: What if it were me behind bars?
c. 1997 Religion News Service
(Samuel K. Atchison is an ordained minister and has worked as a policy analyst and social worker to the homeless. He currently is a prison chaplain in Trenton, N.J.)
UNDATED _ A recent New York Times story breathes new life into one of my hidden fears...
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COMMENTARY:“And when I was in prison, you visited me”
c. 1997 Religion News Service
(Samuel K. Atchison is an ordained minister and has worked as a policy analyst and social worker to the homeless. He currently is a prison chaplain in Trenton, N.J.)
UNDATED _ A few days ago, a small handful of African-Americans from a church in High...
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COMMENTARY: A Muslim view of Judge Moore’s courtroom
c. 1997 Religion News Service
(Salam Al-Maryati is director of the Muslim Public Affairs Council and Ambereen Khan is director of the council's Washington office)
UNDATED _ This week, 2 million Muslim pilgrims from around the world embarked on a pilgrimage _ the Hajj _ to Mecca to...
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COMMENTARY: Women rabbis infuse new spirituality into Judaism
c. 1997 Religion News Service
(Rabbi Rudin is the national interreligious affairs director of the American Jewish Committee.)
UNDATED _ It has been 25 years since Sally Priesand broke the gender barrier by becoming the first woman rabbi. Historically, only men could become rabbis,...
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COMMENTARY: Needed: A meaningful debate about God
c. 1997 religion News Service
(Rabbi Rudin is the national interreligious affairs director of the American Jewish Committee).
UNDATED _ A new organization,"The Committee for the Defense of a Responsible God,"needs to be established as soon as possible to preserve God's integrity....
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COMMENTARY: Intramural squabbles among Jews are as old as Moses
c. 1997 Religion News Service
(Rabbi A. James Rudin is the national interreligious affairs director of the American Jewish Committee.)
UNDATED _ Recently, a small group of Orthodox rabbis in the United States asserted that they alone are the true representatives of the Jewish reli...
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