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NEWS STORY: Catholic bishops’ meeting opens with defense of political process
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(PORTLAND, Ore.)-Bishop Anthony M. Pilla, president of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops, opened the bishops' annual spring meeting Thursday defending the church's role in the political process and warning groups seeking to mobilize the Cathol...
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NEWS STORY: Catholic bishops’ meeting opens with defense of political process
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(PORTLAND, Ore.)-Bishop Anthony M. Pilla, president of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops, opened the bishops' annual spring meeting Thursday defending the church's role in the political process and warning groups seeking to mobilize the Cathol...
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NEWS ADVANCE: Euthanasia, politics on Catholic bishops’ agenda
c. 1996 Religion News Service
WASHINGTON (RNS)-When the U.S. Roman Catholic bishops gather next week in Portland, Ore., the first state to legalize doctor-assisted suicide, they will use the setting to highlight the church's intensifying campaign against euthanasia.
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NEWS ADVANCE: Euthanasia, politics on Catholic bishops’ agenda
c. 1996 Religion News Service
WASHINGTON (RNS)-When the U.S. Roman Catholic bishops gather next week in Portland, Ore., the first state to legalize doctor-assisted suicide, they will use the setting to highlight the church's intensifying campaign against euthanasia.
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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: 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.
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COMMENTARY: Who’s calling who divisive?
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(Andrew M. Greeley is a Roman Catholic priest, best-selling novelist and sociologist at the University of Chicago's 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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NEWS STORY: N.C. Lutheran bishop resigns after allegations of sexual misconduct
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(RNS)-Bishop Mark W. Menees of the North Carolina Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) has resigned as a bishop and from the Lutheran ministry following allegations against him of sexual misconduct, the denomination announced Wedne...
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NEWS STORY: Bishops who brought heresy charges to take fight to Episcopal convention
c. 1996 Religion News Service
DALLAS (RNS)-A group of 10 Episcopal Church bishops who accused retired Bishop Walter Righter of heresy for ordaining a non-celibate gay man as a deacon said Tuesday (May 28) it has not yet ruled out whether it will appeal Righter's acquittal by a churc...
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