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NEWS FEATURE: Bishop said to be within rights on excommunication order
c. 1996 Religion News Service
VATICAN CITY (RNS)-If Bishop Fabian W. Bruskewitz is mistaken, as some critics charge, he's erred on the right side.
That, at least, is the early assessment among leading Catholic scholars and Vatican cognoscenti who have watched the Lincoln, Neb., bi...
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TOP STORY: HERESY TRIAL: Episcopal court finds bishop not guilty of heresy
c. 1996 Religion News Service
WILMINGTON, Del. (RNS)-Saying there is nothing in Episcopal doctrine to bar non-celibate homosexuals from becoming deacons and priests, a church court dismissed heresy charges against a retired bishop Wednesday (May 15) and opened the possibility that g...
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RNS Daily Digest
c. 1996 Religion News Service
Latin bishops condemn dissent in Catholic Church
VATICAN CITY (RNS)-Top Latin American bishops have denounced Catholics who favor abortion, gay rights and population control, and said they are alarmed by the increasing appeal of so-called New Age idea...
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NEWS STORY: Episcopal Church poised for ruling in heresy case
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(RNS)-For nearly 10 months, the eyes of the 2.5 million-member Episcopal Church have been fixed on a nine-bishop panel wrestling with the question of whether to bring retired Bishop Walter Righter to trial on charges of heresy.
On Wednesday (May 15),...
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RNS Daily Digest
c. 1996 Religion News Service
Scholars ponder whether Shakespeare was Roman Catholic
(RNS)-British scholars are discussing the possibility that William Shakespeare (1564-1616) was a"church-papist,"one who outwardly conformed to the established Protestant Church of England while se...
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RNS Daily Digest
c. 1996 Religion News Service
Methodists reaffirm homosexuality is"incompatible"with Christianity
(RNS)-An effort to soften the United Methodist Church's 24-year-old stance declaring that homosexuality is incompatible with Christian teaching was soundly defeated Wednesday (April...
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RNS Daily Digest
c. 1996 Religion News Service
NAACP leader calls for bringing young blacks and Jews together
(RNS)-Jewish and African-American leaders need to work together to help young Jews and blacks better understand the history of pain and cooperation shared by the two communities, the hea...
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NEWS STORY: Methodist bishops break ranks on ordaining gays
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(RNS)-Declaring that it is"time to break the silence,"15 United Methodist bishops have called on their 8.6 million-member denomination to allow the church to ordain homosexuals to the ministry.
But the dissenting bishops pledged they would not commit...
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COMMENTARY: Ordinary people, extraordinary hatred
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 send him e-mail at agreel(AT)aol.c...
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RNS Daily Digest
c. 1996 Religion News Service
Maine's Episcopal bishop takes leave after admitting extra-marital affair
(RNS)-Bishop Edward C. Chalfant of the Episcopal Diocese of Maine will take a voluntary year's leave of absence in the wake of the revelation that he was involved in an extra-ma...
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