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NEWS FEATURE: Care for elderly nuns becomes major concern
c. 1997 Religion News Service
WATCHUNG, N.J. _ In the chapel of McAuley Hall, walking canes hang from the wooden pews at noon Mass, and several parishioners sit toward the back in wheelchairs.
Sister Mary Anne McVey, still spry just weeks before her 100th birthday, is in church. S...
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RNS Daily Digest
c. 1997 Religion News Service
`Compromise' Russian religion bill reportedly no improvement
(RNS) A so-called ``compromise'' bill to regulate religious expression in Russia is no better than an earlier version of the controversial legislation, which was widely denounced by U.S....
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TOP STORY: ETHICAL CHRISTMAS SHOPPING: Could your kids toys be made in a sweatshop?
c. 1996 Religion News Service
UNDATED _ Ben Gordon, a respiratory therapist and consumer from New Orleans, always asks three questions before buying: ``Where does it come from? Who made it? What kind of values are behind it?''
It's old hat for a man long accustomed to applying eth...
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NEWS SIDEBAR: Ballot initatives related to faith, ethics, moral issues
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(UNDATED) Here is a rundown of the voting on ballot initiatives with moral dimensions or in which churches and religious groups played an activist role:
PARENTS' RIGHTS
Colorado: Defeated a measure that would have amended the state constitution with...
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NEWS SIDEBAR: People of faith: How they voted
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(UNDATED) Here's a rundown of exit polls and other post-election surveys of how Americans voted by religion in the 1996 presidential election.
RELIGIOUS CONSERVATIVES
CLINTON: 26 percent
DOLE: 65 percent
PEROT: 8 percent
Source: Voter News S...
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Hunting ethics have become a ballot issue
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(UNDATED) On Nov. 5, voters in seven states will consider measures that would affect the way hunters pursue their prey.
Here's a state-by-state rundown:
ALASKA: A ballot initiative seeks to prohibit so-called"land and shoot"practices, in which hun...
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Beyond sound-bites, radically different ideas of family values
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(UNDATED) Talk about family comes as readily to politicians as wind to Chicago and sun to San Diego.
Democrats who gathered this week in Chicago, like their Republican counterparts who met earlier in San Diego, know that as the campaign unfolds, Presi...
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COMMENTARY: For people in the pews, is this dialogue really necessary?
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.agreeley.com. Or contact him via e-mail at agreel(...
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COMMENTARY: A spiritual power on the ticket
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(Charles W. Colson, former special counsel to Richard Nixon, served a prison term for his role in the Watergate scandal. He now heads Prison Fellowship International, an evangelical Christian ministry to the imprisoned and their families. Contact Colson...
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NEWS STORY: EDUCATION: Ohio town struggles with textbook censorship
c. 1996 Religion News Service
HUDSON, Ohio _ A controversy of ideological fervor sprang to life recently that rousted this quaint, New England-flavored village of century-old homes and shaded streets out of its Norman Rockwell existence.
Not since the early `80s, when a McDonald's...
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