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Show SATURDAY,January 7, 1996 COMICS/TV MOVIES Pages C-4,5 Pages C-6,7 WORLD VIEW Compiled by Peggy Fletcher Stack GIFT FOR MOM? Researchbyscientists at the University of Florence suggests that one of the gifts presented by the “wise men mentioned in the New Testament nativity story was possibly intended not for the baby Jesus but for his mother The scientists’ findings. published in the British journal Nature, have found that myrrh, a resin from a north Afri- can shrub, contains two painkilling substance: However. anofficial of the Church of Englandtold The Times of London If that werethe case, it would have Starting from a death mask and photos of Joseph Smith’sskull, a computer program created a 360-degree imag e@ of Smith as he may have appearedin life. Author Touts Computerized Image of Joseph Smith, But Critic Says It May Be Hyrum been of little use. They [the wise men] were a bit late and he [Jesus] was already born ‘ — Ecumenical News International ByPeter Scarlet THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE PROVO — Alifelong fascination with Joseph Smith took Shannon M. Tracy ona three-dimensional journey culminating SIMPLY REGISTER Local Chinese authorities have approved the building of a newBible school in southeastern Shanxi Proyince. just 100 miles aw omthe site ofa similar school that authorities last June was razed by The newschool was allowedto open because it was officially registered with the government, while the previous Bible school was run by members of a house church who refused to register it — News Network International o CANADIAN CHRISTIAN TV Last week Canada’s first all-Chris- in a new book and computer-generated er and ultimately swapped their liken esses. After all, there were no known pl d wh things as I made the final adjustments ied their remains I knew two exceedingly tographs. eade that would enable me to view the painted from memory important com: pleted images of the prophet and his brother.” Tracy wrote at the conclusion portrait of Joseph Smith of his book. and his brother, Hyrum. produced on the that what they looked like did not matter Compared to the eternal majesty of Jo Tracy says his book, In Search of Jo seph. contains images of Joseph Smith basis of their death masks and photographs oftheirskulls taken in 1928 when exactly what they looked like, and I knew M descendants, Joseph F. Smith and Fielding Smith. later became 4 But onecritic is questioning whether The brothers : 1, what later me of the LDS Chureh son Joseph ed his father. and Indep: idence ized i were murde in 1844 in Cartha accepted Brigham te of the faith Tracymisidentified Joseph and his broth Mormons f served a seph Smith's work, his appearance has 1994 after r B® Sce BOOK, Page C-2 andt Catholic Bishop ~Now Knows Utah As His ome nel. based in Lethbridge. received its broadcasting license after an easing of government rules barring single-faith religious broadcasting The rules dated to the 1920s when some broadcasters combinedreligion By } | Peter Scarlet Sometime and bigotry in their religious radio programs. The ban received newsup- | port in the 1980s whena series of fi- in his first year as bishop of Utah’s Roman Cath diocese George H. Niederauer realized that when he returned to Utah from his many travels he nancial and sexual scandals plagued religious broadcasters in the United States. In 1993, however, the Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission easedits rules but warned it would monitor programming There's a tainted messageout there and it’s not fair,” said the Rey. Dick | was coming home T've done a lot of tra side Utah, more than this past year.” sai who left Los Ang come to Utah | When I returned. I'd say I wa | senior pastor of the 1,000- returning home. And when I go to } memberVictory Christian Fellowship in Lethbridge and president of the Miracle Channel.“‘I’m determined to | | | establish a clean reputation for televangelists. — Religion News Service JEWISH POPULATION PLUMMETS. The Jewish population is plummet- ing around the world — with the exmany, vere | prophet of The Church of Je Latter-day Saint which he 1830. His brother {yrum, triarch of the new church within five years. The Miracle Chan- ception of Israel, after Mormons revere Smi tian television station began broadcasting 18 hours a dayin the province of Alberta, and plans to go national Dewert, Jc little significance the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter DaySaints exhumed and rebur- “I knewthat I would soon se¢ and portraits of L.A. I no longer think of it as home, but as L.A. and where | go to visit friends. Pope John Paul II ap pointed him as Utah’s eighth bish 1994. Niederauer had spent his in Southern Califor hof it as apriest king ther priests, He was the d Angeles retreat when he As ap Canada and Panama — according to a demophic “State of the Jewish World report issued during the World Jewish Congress annual convention held this week in Jerusalem. Only 13 million Jewsarealive today ahton Madeleine marked the sary Thurs: by celebrating Mass at the same altar Durin s first year, Nieder auer | pent time with priest — meaning that the communityhas not recovered numerically from the Holo- nuns. caust. before which there were some 18 million Jews. In the United States, the percentage of Jews has fallen drastically. From a postwarhigh of 4 percent of the U.S. | | lay leaders church. ng or Th € about De cent, or 5.8 million Jews, as a result of a relatively low birthrate and a high rateofintermarriage. their heard and considered,” 1 population, it has plungedto 2.3 per- hed he dio or other lez hope Salt Lake Tribune George H. Niederauer s Catholics he Salt Lake sar th be open to and is City as a resource for expanded its dioce ministry a yegun to t expansionof the no complaints the material f the | ealth attributes — Religion News Service 000-memt I've fe CHANGING NUNS’ IMAGE yps Joseph I ts Mons Eleven congregations of womenreli- gious in Kentucky andOhio have united to promote a moreaccurate image of nuns in the media The “sisters” of “Sister Act” and Nunsense” are the “imposters.” the groups said in a large adin several Ohio newspapers this month. The steering committee for Sisters United Priests praying while on retreat is one of many pictures illustrating the worldwide Spiritual practice in the book Retreat: Time Apart for Silence andSolitude. Inner Voices Speak at Silent Retreats By Hollis L. Engley News (SUN) saidthe group's mission is re “trivialized She was 54. Her and negative images” and “discourage the considerationofreligious life as a left home for colleg and wanted her to move from California to Washington, D« viable choice for today’s Catholic wo Instead, Ellsberg, men the mountains — National Catholic Reporté MODERATION AND MARY Earlier this month Pope John Paul II warned Roman Catholics against unhealthy extremes” in their devo tion to the Virgin Mary. Speaking at his weekly Wednesday audience, the “The doctrines r¢ it and the devotion to her the product of sentimentality, they invitations to a deeper tandin tion to Mary. The Po awareness of the the holds the k highest observing the change fall, the patterns of the She came home with a new er the t ‘the position after direct ler j pe wants @ See SILENCE telephone services and even the Inter By Peggy Fletcher Stack ege ind tl a € the vhat is PageC-2 students tor i turn around. But } ar-old leader of Church President Gordon B this week warned Mormon co ds avoid the seductions of aphy, premarital sex, profanity kes and criticizing church leaders. ulled for of Mar livine nature of Je reaffirmed that the Christ for a few days, went to et in the Sierra Nevada anges on her life. She spent a MormonPresident Warns Students of Pornography, Criticizing Church Leaders porr dirt differes “human nature ; BSee CATHOLIC LDS Hin ' Z ence is of t home in Ken tor pening even when you three days there alone during a retreat she not are of the word of ( He went on to the Second Vatican Council from all ilse exagge The) lakeside worked its 0 I becar ley Storms are brewing at you Hinckley told the 6.000 young adults who ithered Sunday in the Salt Lake n Temple Square. “Th Taber is the ever exploitation of sex and violenceto on television through video ious mag azines, long distance encouraged the voung and socialize. but to n the sand beyond haracter of their away from it beco ts slaves peor draw a sex te ale. s Wh 1t i ; : ng pau. expression there is lenty of hu without resorting to @ See HINCKLEY, POOR CO "9 Ke Pope said: —had 1994 € PageC-2 arm rent mediaport . and wilderness retreat planner from Beach, Calif Patricia Ellsberg’s Cur- in |." designed with Michael Eller, a psycl to spread the good news about the ministries and lives ofsisters.’’ K. 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