Faith
TOP STORY: RELIGION IN AMERICA: Catholics immersed in a centuries-old baptismal ritual
c. 1996 Religion News Service
LOS ANGELES (RNS)-Converts to Catholicism are increasingly being baptized by immersion, an historic shift by the church back to ancient ways of initiation.
The change is taking place so gradually that many Catholics are unfamiliar with the splashy rit...
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TOP STORY: RELIGION IN AMERICA: Catholics immersed in a centuries-old baptismal ritual
c. 1996 Religion News Service
LOS ANGELES (RNS)-Converts to Catholicism are increasingly being baptized by immersion, an historic shift by the church back to ancient ways of initiation.
The change is taking place so gradually that many Catholics are unfamiliar with the splashy rit...
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COMMENTARY: As others sleep, a monk-in-training keeps a prayerful vigil
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(Frederica Mathewes-Green is a member of the Eastern Orthodox Church. She is the author of the recent book"Real Choices"and a frequent contributor to Christianity Today magazine.)
(RNS)-"It's dark outside my window, yet the birds are already busy sing...
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TOP STORY: CHURCH FIRES: Black clergy demand stronger action on church arsons
c. 1996 Religion News Service
WASHINGTON (RNS)-African-American church leaders called Monday (June 10) for more aggressive federal action to solve a string of more than 30 arsons of black southern churches during the past 18 months.
They suggested that the nation's fragile racial...
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TOP STORY: CHURCH FIRES: Black clergy demand stronger action on church arsons
c. 1996 Religion News Service
WASHINGTON (RNS)-African-American church leaders called Monday (June 10) for more aggressive federal action to solve a string of more than 30 arsons of black southern churches during the past 18 months.
They suggested that the nation's fragile racial...
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COMMENTARY: What kind of family will the church be?
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(Andrew M. Greeley is a Roman Catholic priest, best-selling novelist and a sociologist at the University of Chicago National Opinion Research Center. His home page on the World Wide Web is at http://www.greeley.com. Or contact him via e-mail at agreel(A...
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COMMENTARY: A summer of hatred spawned centuries of grief
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(Rabbi Rudin is the national interreligious affairs director of the American Jewish Committee.)
(RNS)-Sometimes we can pinpoint a moment in history when the world was forever changed. Such a moment occurred 900 years ago, in May and June, 1096. Someth...
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NEWS STORY: Judge orders Mississippi district to end school prayer
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(RNS)-U.S. District Court Judge Neal Biggers on Monday (June 3) ordered a Mississippi school district to end religious activity in the classroom, including vocal prayers heard over the school's intercom. "The Bill of Rights was created to protect the mi...
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NEWS STORY: Judge orders Mississippi district to end school prayer
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(RNS)-U.S. District Court Judge Neal Biggers on Monday (June 3) ordered a Mississippi school district to end religious activity in the classroom, including vocal prayers heard over the school's intercom. "The Bill of Rights was created to protect the mi...
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NEWS STORY: Lutheran synod reports $740,000 in endowment money missing
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(RNS)-In the wake of embezzlements of large sums of money reported recently in other major churches, the New England Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America announced Thursday (May 30) that $740,000 is missing from its endowment funds.
Chu...
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