Friday, October 8, 2004
Take old gal for granted and one day she'll be gone
It's too easy to take things for granted, to not be fully present in each moment of life. Monday, October 4, 2004
2 controversial figures closer to sainthood
VATICAN CITY -- Pope John Paul II on Sunday honored two figures linked to controversy, beatifying a German mystic whose violent visions of Christ's suffering helped inspire Mel Gibson's ''The Passion of the Christ'' and an Austrian emperor whose troops used poison gas. Sunday, October 3, 2004
A cantor's 10 Days of Awe
Religion reporter Cathleen Falsani followed Hazzan Alberto Mizrahi, chief cantor at Chicago's Anshe Emet Synagogue, through the Jewish High Holy Days beginning with Rosh Hashana on Sept. 16 and ending with Yom Kippur on Sept. 25. For cantors such as Mizrahi, the 10-day period between Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur, known as the Days of Awe, is the busiest of the Jewish year.
Pope beatifying 'Passion of Christ' mystic
VATICAN CITY -- A different type of ''star'' linked to the hit film ''The Passion of the Christ'' will get top billing Sunday when Pope John Paul II honors a German nun said to have inspired Mel Gibson's shockingly graphic depiction of Jesus' final suffering. Friday, October 1, 2004
Ex-reporter asking tough questions on 'Faith Under Fire'
BURBANK, Calif. -- Back in the late 1970s, when he was an investigative newspaper reporter covering legal affairs in Chicago, if someone had tried to tell Lee Strobel that one day he would be the slick host of a television talkfest about religion, he would have laughed. Hard. Sunday, September 26, 2004
Hefner: 'I'm a pretty moral guy'
LOS ANGELES -- When Hugh Hefner prays, which he admits is not with any regularity, he says his conversation with the Creator usually goes something like this: Friday, September 24, 2004
Here's a brand of evil we can stop
Like a recurring nightmare, reports of the beheading of civilians kidnapped by Iraqi terrorists flashed across our newspapers and television screens this week in macabre, horrifying succession. Tuesday, September 21, 2004
Tucson diocese files for bankruptcy
TUCSON, Ariz. -- The Roman Catholic Diocese of Tucson filed for bankruptcy Monday, becoming the second U.S. diocese to seek court protection because of the cost of clerical sex abuse cases. Friday, September 17, 2004
Nothing phony about Madonna's spiritual journey
You didn't like it when she became a disciplined practitioner of yoga. Wednesday, September 15, 2004
Skokie man traces roots to King David
hen Mitchell Dayan and his family celebrate Rosh Hashana, the Jewish New Year, tonight, and pray the Hebrew prayer that thanks God "who has given us life, sustained us, and allowed us to reach this day," they will be thinking of their ancestors and a lineage of nearly 3,000 years that brought them from Syria to Skokie.
Catholic Church closing five West Side parishes
At least five West Side parishes will close by next summer as part of a plan approved by Cardinal Francis George to merge the Chicago Archdiocese's smaller, less financially stable churches with larger ones.
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