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NEWS STORY: Harmony put to the test at America synod
c. 1997 Religion News Service
VATICAN CITY _ Harmony was the buzzword of the day as bishops from the two American continents gathered Monday (Nov. 17) for the first working session of a monthlong meeting, or synod, on the religious, social, economic and political issues of the vast...
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NEWS STORY: Don’t expect to chat with the pope on Vatican’s new Web site
c. 1997 Religion News Service
VATICAN CITY _ When the Roman Catholic Church unveils its first World Wide Web site on Easter Sunday, don't expect to find a chat room with Pope John Paul II. He's not taking confessions. At least, not in cyberspace.
With that caveat, the church hopes...
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NEWS STORY: U.S. Orthodox Christian leaders say they have no rift with Bartholomew
c. 1997 Religion News Service
NEW YORK _ Leaders of Russian, Antiochian, Ukrainian, Serbian and other ethnic branches of the Orthodox Church in the United States have taken steps to heal a longstanding rift with Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew.
In a closed meeting Friday (Oct. 24...
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RNS Daily Digest
c. 1997 Religion News Service
Jewish group asks for investigation of Ten Commandments judge
(RNS) The American Jewish Congress (AJC) is calling on an Alabama state government agency to investigate the conduct of controversial Circuit Court Judge Roy Moore to determine whether no...
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COMMENTARY: Albania’s crisis is spiritual more than economic
c. 1997 Religion News Service
(Frederica Mathewes-Green is a member of the Eastern Orthodox Church. She is the author of"Facing East: A Pilgrim's Journey into the Mysteries of Orthodoxy"(HarperCollins), and a frequent contributor to Christianity Today magazine.)
UNDATED _"Madness,...
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COMMENTARY: Religion in the belly of the Celtic Tiger
c. 1997 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. Check out his home page at http://www.agreeley.com, or contact him via e-mail at agreel(at)aol.com.)
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COMMENTARY: In sellers’ market, Chicago’s priests are emboldened
c. 1997 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. Check out his home page at http://www.agreeley.com, or contact him via e-mail at agreel(at)aol.com.)
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COMMENTARY: Problems in the Catholic Church? Let them not eat fish!
c. 1997 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. Check out his home page at http://www.agreeley.com, or contact him via e-mail at agreel(at)aol.com.)
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RNS Daily Digest
c. 1997 Religion News Service
Candidates announced for Episcopal Church's top spot
(RNS) Four bishops have been nominated to succeed Presiding Bishop Edmond Browning as the top official of the 2.5 million-member Episcopal Church.
The four nominees are: Frank Griswold III of Ch...
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COMMENTARY: Will politics or grace guide the choice of Chicago’s new archbishop?
c. 1996 Religion News Service
UNDATED _ Two distinctive traits characterize Roman Catholic fundamentalists: they appear to be obsessed with papal authority and they seem largely ignorant of history.
Such rigid conservatives tend to extend the infallibility of the pope beyond the b...
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