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...think the Bible is literally true," says Bishop John Spong of the Episcopal diocese of Newark, New Jersey, answering a question scholars have tugged at for the past 200 years. Spong, who is invariably described as the enfant terrible of liberal Protestant theology, writes books with such titles as Resurrection: Myth or Reality and Rescuing the Bible from Fundamentalism that are guaranteed to make conservatives growl. "The Bible also says the woman is usually the property of a man. I don't believe that either," Spong declares. "The Bible says homosexual people should be put to death...
...politician's brother spent nearly seven hours Thursday being grilled by investigators regarding possible criminal omissions in his inquiry. Afterward, Mario Ruiz Massieu declared it ``an atrocity to think that I would hide information to benefit the murderer of my brother.'' On Friday night Ruiz Massieu was arrested at Newark International Airport...
...because of the league's lack of athletic scholarships. While this often seems true, the Harvard men's volleyball team put this proposition in temporary abeyance by giving top 20 Rutgers a visceral scare before falling, 3-2 (15-10, 15-17, 15-12, 13-15, 15-9). Rut. Newark 3 Harvard...
...about 8 a.m. every weekday, children begin arriving early in the cafeteria at Rafael Hernandez Elementary School in Newark, New Jersey, to be sure they do not miss the free, hot breakfast offered each morning. At 8:20 last Friday, about 150 kids filled the cafeteria, talking about their favorite TV shows and eating their cereal and pancakes and drinking their juice and milk. The menu doesn't always please everyone. Ten-year-old Jennifer Silva would prefer Pop-Tarts or even pizza for breakfast. But she knows that if she misses breakfast at school, she won't eat that...
Some feared that he'd never make it, but Pope John Paul II is headed for America after all. The Vatican said today that the 74-year-old pontiff would make a four-day trip to New York, Newark and Baltimore beginning Oct. 4, a year after he cancelled the same trip because of hip replacement surgery. After terrorist threats during the pope's January visit to the Philippines, U.S. officials are preparing heavy security measures...