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TOP STORY: RELIGION AND HISTORY: Historic Trinity Church in New York marks 300th year
c. 1996 Religion News Service
NEW YORK _ Nestled in the canyons of Wall Street, where narrow sidewalks bend in the shadows cast by buildings rising to spectacular heights, sits the unlikely progenitor of Manhattan's famed financial district _ the parish of Trinity Church.
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NEWS ANALYSIS: Bishops wrestle with role as teacher to U.S. Catholics
c. 1996 Religion News Service
PORTLAND, Ore. _ For three days last week, in various ways and differing contexts, U.S. Roman Catholic bishops wrestled with and acted on their calling to be teachers of the nation's 60 million Catholics.
Confronting a full agenda of internal church c...
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NEWS ANALYSIS: Bishops wrestle with role as teacher to U.S. Catholics
c. 1996 Religion News Service
PORTLAND, Ore. _ For three days last week, in various ways and differing contexts, U.S. Roman Catholic bishops wrestled with and acted on their calling to be teachers of the nation's 60 million Catholics.
Confronting a full agenda of internal church c...
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NEWS STORY: Euthanasia becoming key policy item for U.S. Catholic bishops
c. 1996 Religion News Service
PORTLAND, Ore. _ The nation's Roman Catholic bishops are stepping up their campaign against euthanasia and doctor-assisted suicide, asking the U.S. Supreme Court to allow states to ban the practice and urging Congress to take action.
Meeting this week...
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NEWS STORY: Euthanasia becoming key policy item for U.S. Catholic bishops
c. 1996 Religion News Service
PORTLAND, Ore. _ The nation's Roman Catholic bishops are stepping up their campaign against euthanasia and doctor-assisted suicide, asking the U.S. Supreme Court to allow states to ban the practice and urging Congress to take action.
Meeting this week...
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RNS Daily Digest
c. 1996 Religion News Service
Australian court declines to stop euthanasia law, but will hold hearings
(UNDATED) _ An Australian court has denied a request from opponents of the Northern Territory's euthanasia law to prevent the legislation from taking effect on July 1, but has...
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NEWS STORY: Bishops criticize `punitive’ immigration bills
c. 1996 Religion News Service
PORTLAND, Ore. _ The nation's Roman Catholic bishops Friday denounced proposed immigration legislation as"punitive,"saying it would target the poor and return refugees seeking political asylum back to their oppressors and possible death.
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NEWS STORY: Bishops criticize `punitive’ immigration bills
c. 1996 Religion News Service
PORTLAND, Ore. _ The nation's Roman Catholic bishops Friday denounced proposed immigration legislation as"punitive,"saying it would target the poor and return refugees seeking political asylum back to their oppressors and possible death.
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NEWS STORY: Catholic bishops vote to ask Vatican to loosen rules on cremation
c. 1996 Religion News Service
PORTLAND, Ore. _ Responding to the growing American funeral practice of cremation, the nation's Roman Catholic bishops Friday (June 21) voted to ask the Vatican to allow Roman Catholic parishes to bring cremated remains into a church for the funeral Mas...
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NEWS STORY: Catholic bishops vote to ask Vatican to loosen rules on cremation
c. 1996 Religion News Service
PORTLAND, Ore. _ Responding to the growing American funeral practice of cremation, the nation's Roman Catholic bishops Friday (June 21) voted to ask the Vatican to allow Roman Catholic parishes to bring cremated remains into a church for the funeral Mas...
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