Abstract

Religion in the News

The article presents various newspaper reports on religion. Federally funded Job Corps trainees in Anaconda, Montana, are helping to build a Catholic chapel on nearby Mount Butte. The Freedom From Religion foundation protested to U.S. Secretary of Labor Robert Reich on the use of federal funds to support a religious purpose. An excerpt is also given related to a prayer offered on the floor of the U.S. Senate by Chaplain Richard Halverson. A correspondent writes that the hot rumor on Wall Street is that Random House plans to acquire the Vatican. The merger would be a logical follow-up to the purchase by Knopf, a Random House subsidiary, of the U.S. rights to a book by Pope John Paul II for a whopping $9 million, says one publishing analyst.