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Missions and ministry:

• Community comfort: Nurturing the spirit of people who are ill | After Wednesday services, carloads of singers drive along the country roads, stopping at front porches of people who are ill (The Seattle Times)
  
  
• Jesus video goes to every household in South Carolina | 9/11-themed project also sends tapes to parts of North Carolina, Michigan, Texas, California and Washington (Morning Edition, NPR, audio)
  
  
• Gentle message from a heavenly empire | Bill Gaither, 66, is one of the country's most popular Christian singers, and he oversees a gospel empire (The New York Times)
  
  
• Anne Graham Lotz: Teacher, not preacher | She compares the ministries of her father and brother to the work of an obstetrician, and her own to the work of a pediatrician (The Plain Dealer, Cleveland)

Life ethics:

• Study: Humans not fit for cloning | Researchers at Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research found that cloning to create new animals will almost always create an abnormal creature (Wired News)
  
  
• Study sees faint hope on human cloning | MIT scientist says existing methods are 'irresponsible' (Reuters/Boston Globe)
  
  
• Women seek right to use frozen embryos | Former partners want to destroy them (The Times, London)
  
  
• Women take fight to save frozen embryos to high court (The Guardian, London)
  
  
• Women in fight to use their frozen embryos (The Daily Telegraph, London)

Sex and marriage:

• Ban on same-sex marriages ruled unconstitutional | Quebec court joins Ontario in challenging federal definition (The National Post)
  
  
• Battle over book-banning grows | Another sex-education book volume in library at center of storm (Houston Chronicle)
  
  
• Anglican Church in Sydney vows to fight planned legal changes to 'spouse' status | A New South Wales Government bill to be debated in the lower house next week will give defacto couples, including same-sex couples, the same rights as married couples for work entitlements, financial security and protection in court (ABC News, Australia)
  
  
• South Africa's gays target marriage | On Tuesday, South Africa's Constitutional Court ruled that homosexual couples have the right to adopt children (BBC)

Catholicism:

• Archbishop Milingo confesses all on Moon marriage | Says he may have been brainwashed. (Reuters)
  
  
• A critic takes the Catholic Church to task for its architecture | The architectural designs of newly constructed Catholic churches have caused some debate within various congregations (The New York Times)
  
  
• Sainthood sought for late archbishop who pioneered televised religion | Diocese of Peoria, Illinois, campaign to canonize Fulton J. Sheen (Associated Press)

Sex abuse scandal:

• Victims' groups irate over prosecutors' deal with Catholic Church | Guidelines determine such matters as how and when alleged victims would be contacted and what sort of information the church should disclose to law enforcement (San Francisco Chronicle)
  
  
• Pell accuser stands by his claim | Case will go forward (The Sydney Morning Herald)
  
  
• Bishops Quinn, McCormack abuse panel | Both are defendants in lawsuits brought by sex abuse victims (The Plain Dealer, Cleveland)

Other stories of interest:

• Christian group rapped for portraying police as murderers | A police force has complained to a Christian theatre company over a play depicting an innocent man being beaten to death by police officers (Ananova)
  
  
• Larry Wall On Perl, Religion, and … | "If the Creator really did write himself into his own story, that's where we ought to expect to see creative solutions," says the creator of the computer language Perl. (Slashdot)
  
  

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September (Web-only) 2002, Vol. 46