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COMMENTARY: Peace can bring out the worst in people
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: Supreme Court rejects Colorado amendment barring protection for gays
c. 1996 Religion News Service
WASHINGTON (RNS)-In a decision hailed by homosexual groups as a huge legal victory, the U.S. Supreme Court Monday (May 20) struck down a voter-approved Colorado constitutional amendment that prohibited laws specifically designed to protect gay and lesbi...
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TOP STORY: RELIGION AND POLITICS: A reader’s guide to the Religious Right
c. 1996 Religion News Service
(RNS)-Just in time for the upcoming election season, a number of new books by conservative religious leaders-and some of their critics-raise intriguing questions about the power of the Religious Right and the popular appeal of its agenda."Active Faith"b...
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NEWS FEATURE: In India, Gandhi is out, Michael Jackson is in
c. 1996 Religion News Service
AHMEDABAD, India (RNS)-On the eve of national elections in India, someone hurled mud over a statue of Mahatma Gandhi, the storied advocate of non-violent disobedience who led his country to independence from Great Britain.
It was not the first time th...
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TOP STORY: RELIGION AND POLITICS—ANALYSIS: Myth of `Catholic vote’ survives all reason
c. 1996 Religion News Service
WASHINGTON (RNS)-They now are often identified with religious conservatives, but once they were a key segment of the liberal New Deal coalition.
They were well represented among the Reagan Democrats 10 years ago, yet many still count themselves among...
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Watchdog group says Texas church got political
c. 1996 Religion News Service
WASHINGTON (RNS)-A church-state watchdog group has asked the Internal Revenue Service to investigate Houston's Second Baptist Church-an influential, 22,000-member Southern Baptist congregation-for allegedly engaging in partisan political activities in v...
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COMMENTARY: A pope should be chosen without secrecy
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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Pope revises rules on papal elections that could alter outcome
c. 1996 Religion News Service
VATICAN CITY (RNS)-Pope John Paul II has revised the way the next pope will be elected, allowing cardinals voting in secret ballot to abandon two-thirds majority approval and resort to a simple absolute majority if a stalemate is reached.
The revision...
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Pope revises rules on papal elections that could alter outcome
c. 1996 Religion News Service
VATICAN CITY (RNS)-Pope John Paul II has revised the way the next pope will be elected, allowing cardinals voting in secret ballot to abandon two-thirds majority approval and resort to a simple absolute majority if a stalemate is reached.
The revision...
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COMMENTARY: In Northern Ireland, peace didn’t have a chance
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://tekweb.com/greeley.html. Or contact him at his e-mail...
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