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NEWS STORY: Oklahoma death penalty case stirs new religious opposition
c. 1999 Religion News Service
UNDATED _ Less than a week after papal intervention saved the life of a Missouri killer, Roman Catholic and Jewish leaders and others have become involved in another death penalty case in Oklahoma, where a death row inmate is scheduled to die early Thur...
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NEWS FEATURE: Catholic Church wrestles with its past as it opposes death penalty
c. 1999 Religion News Service
UNDATED _ By most accounts, Missouri's Supreme Court justices had their eyes peeled on Pope John Paul II when they postponed an execution originally scheduled for Jan. 27 _ during the pope's visit to St. Louis. The announcement in November again raised...
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NEWS STORY: Missouri governor, in bow to papal plea, spares killer’s life
c. 1999 Religion News Service
ST. LOUIS _ Missouri Gov. Mel Carnahan agreed Thursday (Jan. 28) to a request from Pope John Paul II to commute the death sentence of a three-time murderer whose scheduled execution had been moved so as not to coincide with the pontiff's visit here this...
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COMMENTARY: The New Age enters the law: Animal rights in a Catholic university
c. 1999 Religion News Service
(Eugene Kennedy, a longtime observer of the Roman Catholic Church, is professor emeritus of psychology at Loyola University in Chicago and author most recently of"My Brother Joseph,"published by St. Martin's Press.)
UNDATED _ Only under the cover of t...
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NEWS FEATURE: Domino’s pizza founder plans to work for God and die broke
c. 1999 Religion News Service
ANN ARBOR, Mich. _ Tom Monaghan gets cracking early.
Up at 5 a.m., the founder of Domino's Pizza runs four or five miles and lifts weights for half an hour before attending 8 a.m. Mass in a small chapel tucked away at the Domino's Farms complex.
Fol...
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NEWS FEATURE: Substituting prayer for medical care sparks concern in Oregon
c. 1998 Religion News Service
OREGON CITY, Ore. _ Eleven-year-old Bo Phillips had been dead about three hours when Detective Jeff Green arrived to investigate. It was 6 p.m. Feb. 23. About 100 people were at the house praying and offering support and condolences to family members.
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NEWS STORY: Grand jury takes up infamous 1963 Alabama church bombing that killed four
c. 1998 Religion News Service
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. _ A federal grand jury has begun hearing evidence in the infamous 1963 bombing that killed four girls at a Baptist church here and altered the course of the black civil rights struggle.
The grand jury heard testimony Thursday (Oct. 22...
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NEWS STORY: Study: religious grandparents more involved than non-religious
c. 1998 Religion News Service
UNDATED _ Nonreligious grandparents may have close relationships with their grandchildren but religiously active grandparents have higher levels of involvement with the youngsters, according to a new study.
Sociologists at Pennsylvania State Universit...
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NEWS STORY: Cleveland judge dismisses charges against anti-Wahoo protesters
c. 1998 Religion News Service
CLEVELAND _ A Cleveland judge Tuesday (April 7) dismissed charges against three American Indian activists, including a United Church of Christ official, saying city prosecutors failed to prove the trio broke any laws at a 1997 World Series baseball game...
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COMMENTARY: Lawyers, legalism and contemporary American morality
c. 1998 Religion News Service
(Eugene Kennedy, a longtime observer of the Roman Catholic Church, is professor emeritus of psychology at Loyola University in Chicago and author most recently of a biography of the late Cardinal Bernardin,"My Brother Joseph,"published by St. Martin Pre...
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