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NEWS STORY: Pope Beatifies Popes John XXIII and ``Slandered’’ Pius IX
c. 2000 Religion News Service
VATICAN CITY _ In a solemn ceremony clouded by controversy, Pope John Paul II on Sunday (Sept. 3) beatified Pope John XXIII and his ``much loved but also hated and slandered'' 19th century predecessor, Pius IX.
Some 100,000 pilgrims gathered in St. Pe...
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NEWS STORY: Canada’s Catholic Schools Fight Bankruptcy in Sex Scandal Case
c. 2000 Religion News Service
VANCOUVER, British Columbia _ The future of two prestigious Greater Vancouver Roman Catholic schools has turned grimmer this month as the Supreme Court of Canada refused to hear their appeal of a decision clearing the way to liquidate their assets.
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NEWS STORY: Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod Foundation Sued
c. 2000 Religion News Service
ST. LOUIS _ The Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod Foundation faces a class action lawsuit as a result of a $40 million investment loss suffered by the foundation in 1998.
Filed at the end of September in St. Louis County Circuit Court by 15 individuals,...
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COMMENTARY: Tied Hands: The Tragic Death of Gary Graham
c. 2000 Religion News Service
(Samuel K. Atchison is an ordained minister and has worked as a policy analyst and social worker to the homeless. He currently is a prison chaplain in Trenton, N.J., and a fellow of the George H. Gallup International Institute in Princeton, N.J.)
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COMMENTARY: The Injustice of the Justice System
c. 2000 Religion News Service
(Samuel K. Atchison is an ordained minister and has worked as a policy analyst and social worker to the homeless. He currently is a prison chaplain in Trenton, N.J., and a fellow of the George H. Gallup International Institute in Princeton, N.J.)
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FEATURE SIDEBAR: The Talmud Confronts Florida’s Electric Chair
c. 2000 Religion News Service
UNDATED _ There are many signs of increased interest in Jewish legal studies at American law schools: More than three dozen schools now teach the subject; the American Association of Law School Professors has its own Jewish law section; there is now a J...
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NEWS FEATURE: Jewish Law Enters Mainstream Legal Curriculum
c. 2000 Religion News Service
CAMDEN, N.J. _ Memory, for Steve Friedell, is neither arid nor abstract _ it is sensuous. And so when he leans back in his office chair, closes his eyes and makes a temple with his hands, fingertip to fingertip to fingertip, remembrances rise like steam...
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FEATURE SIDEBAR: The Talmud Confronts Florida’s Electric Chair
c. 2000 Religion News Service
UNDATED _ There are many signs of increased interest in Jewish legal studies at American law schools: More than three dozen schools now teach the subject; the American Association of Law School Professors has its own Jewish law section; there is now a J...
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NEWS FEATURE: Jewish Law Enters Mainstream Legal Curriculum
c. 2000 Religion News Service
CAMDEN, N.J. _ Memory, for Steve Friedell, is neither arid nor abstract _ it is sensuous. And so when he leans back in his office chair, closes his eyes and makes a temple with his hands, fingertip to fingertip to fingertip, remembrances rise like steam...
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COMMENTARY: The death penalty: A biblical view
c. 1999 Religion News Service
(Samuel K. Atchison is an ordained minister and has worked as a policy analyst and social worker to the homeless. He currently is a prison chaplain in Trenton, N.J.)
UNDATED _ In New Jersey, on Sept. 22, convicted murderer John Martini is scheduled to b...
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