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TOP STORY: THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IN EUROPE: France emblematic of dissent in European Catholicism
c. 1996 Religion News Service
PARIS (RNS)-Two months ago the French Bishops' Conference surprised many of the country's 42 million Catholics when for the first time it appeared to reverse church policy by endorsing the use of condoms to prevent the spread of AIDS.
Progressives wel...
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TOP STORY: DISSENT AND THE CATHOLIC CHURCH: Excommunication decree sows confusion, outrage
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(RNS)-Three U.S. Catholic bishops are among the members of Call to Action, a liberal Catholic organization targeted in a sweeping excommunication threat by Lincoln, Neb., Bishop Fabian W. Bruskewitz.
Bruskewitz said March 19 he would excommunicate Cat...
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COMMENTARY: Catholic dissent and a bishop’s abuse of power
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 at his e-mail address:...
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NEWS STORY: Bishop threatens to excommunicate Catholics in `incompatible’ groups
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(RNS)-The Roman Catholic bishop of Lincoln, Neb., is threatening to excommunicate Catholic members of a dozen groups whose ideas he considers incompatible with church teachings.
Bishop Fabian Bruskewitz said he has forbidden Catholics in his southern...
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TOP STORY: THE CATHOLIC CHURCH: Ousted French bishop makes cyberspace his pulpit
c. 1996 Religion News Service
PARIS (RNS)-He was removed from his diocese by Pope John Paul II for spouting progressive views. But one year later, Monsignor Jacques Gaillot has eluded the church by connecting with followers on the World Wide Web.
Often described as the church's fi...
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RNS Daily Digest
c. 1996 Religion News Service
Southern Baptist leader Charles Stanley's wife drops divorce suit
(RNS)-Television preacher and prominent Southern Baptist pastor Charles Stanley appears to no longer be in danger of losing his pulpit now that his wife has dropped a divorce suit aga...
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Publicity-shy priests guide two Catholic papers
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(RNS)-Two national Catholic newspapers sold last year to a group with ties to an obscure priestly order, the Legion of Christ, have moved from California to Connecticut. And the New Haven suburbs have become the U.S. base for the priests, familiarly kno...
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Russian Orthodox suspend ties with Ecumenical Patriarch
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(RNS)-As the Russian Orthodox Patriarch Aleksy II presided at a liturgy Feb. 23 in Moscow's Cathedral of the Epiphany, he omitted from the day's prayers the name of the pre-eminent leader of Orthodox Christians worldwide, the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartho...
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NEWS ANALYSIS: Episcopal Church weighs question of doctrine in heresy trial over gays
c. 1996 Religion News Service
WILMINGTON, Del. (RNS)-For a generation, Episcopalians have struggled with the issue of how gays and lesbians fit into their denomination, especially the ranks of the clergy.
Over the years, the debate has produced a flurry of studies, resolutions, st...
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TOP STORY: THE EPISCOPAL CHURCH: Historic heresy trial of Episcopal bishop gets under way
c. 1996 Religion News Service
WILMINGTON, Del. (RNS)-Invoking Scripture, age-old tradition and even speed-limit laws, a pair of secular lawyers Tuesday (Feb. 27) thrashed out the question of whether the Episcopal Church has a ``doctrine'' forbidding the ordination of homosexuals t...
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