Faith
Perhaps soil from Toussaint’s grave provided a miracle
c. 1997 RELIGION News Service
NEWARK, N.J. _ The Rev. Charles McTague, former chaplain at Port Newark, and a merchant seaman before he took his vows, has a personal story of what he considers to be a possible miraculous intercession by Pierre Toussaint.
In 1973, Newark Archbishop...
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NEWS FEATURE: Seeking sainthood for a 19th-century New Yorker
c. 1997 Religion News Service
NEW YORK _ Monsignor Robert O'Connell, pastor of St. Peter's Roman Catholic Church on Barclay Street in Lower Manhattan, is not asking for a pocketful of miracles.
Just two will do to advance his cause: sainthood for Pierre Toussaint, born a slave...
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NEWS STORY: Alabama governor looking to fight feds over courtroom religion
c. 1997 Religion News Service
MONTGOMERY, Ala. _ Gov. Fob James say he is ready to take on the federal government if the federal courts tell a state judge he can't keep a wooden replica of the Ten Commandments in his courtroom.
If the federal courts remove the replica from the cou...
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NEWS STORY: Non-Orthodox worshipers attacked at Jerusalem’s Western Wall
c. 1997 Religion News Service
JERUSALEM _ Leaders of Israel's Conservative Jewish movement have urged Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to intervene between Orthodox and non-Orthodox Jews after ultra-Orthodox militants attacked Conservative and Reform worshipers early Wednesday (Jun...
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NEWS FEATURE: Israeli interfaith project breaks new ground
c. 1997 Religion News Service
BAKA AL-GARBIYA, Israel _ The chant of the"dhikr,"the Sufi Muslim recitation of the 99 names for God, resounded inside the mosque. But here and there a word of Hebrew blended into the holy din. Spaced among the Muslim men chanting their devotions in Ara...
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COMMENTARY: Wall Street and the spiritual crisis of our fragility
c. 1997 Religion News Service
(Tom Ehrich is an Episcopal priest in Winston-Salem, N.C., an author and former Wall Street Journal reporter. E-mail him at journey(at)interpath.com)
UNDATED _ Plunging stock prices stir colorful language and graphic fears.
Strong words like"crash,"...
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COMMENTARY: Contending with the delusional power claims of orthodoxy
c. 1997 Religion News Service
UNDATED _ In making my journey from the pulpit to the pew, I have had to contend with three powerful forces: the energetic few who tend to run churches, the power of church property to distort a sense of mission, and the delusional attitude called ortho...
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COMMENTARY: Looking for church beyond the bricks and mortar
c. 1997 Religion News Service
(Tom Ehrich is an Episcopal priest in Winston-Salem, N.C., an author and former Wall Street Journal reporter. E-mail him at journey(at)interpath.com)
UNDATED _ As I make the journey from pulpit to pew, a nagging question keeps arising: How did Christi...
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COMMENTARY: The man behind the Bonhoeffer legend
c. 1997 Religion News Service
(Rabbi Rudin is the national interreligious affairs director of the American Jewish Committee.)
UNDATED _ The German Lutheran pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer _ who was not yet 40 when the Nazis executed him in Berlin in April 1945 _ has emerged as the domi...
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NEWS STORY: Women’s issues don’t register at American synod
c. 1997 Religion News Service
VATICAN CITY _ Roman Catholic bishops from North and South America are wringing their hands over such problems as the impact of non-Catholic faiths on their continents, the role of poor nations' international debt on their societies and lackluster par...
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