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THE AGNOSTIC-Augustine Caffrey, 48, former Jesuit priest. Fairfield University President William Mclnnes declared that a professor at the Catholic institution could not teach theology while questioning the faith. Fairfield's board of trustees rebuffed Mclnnes and supported Caffrey, who is currently teaching Problems of Atheism.
PHOTOGRAPHER Erich Lessing calls himself an atheist-"or at best, an agnostic"-but that description would hardly seem credible to those who buy his books. Last Christmas, Lessing's The Bible: History and Culture of a People, told the story of the Old Testament in a lavish pictorial presentation...
Though Catholics dominate in most anti-abortion groups, the campaign has gone well beyond sectarian boundaries. The California Mobilization for the Unnamed is headed by an agnostic Jew. The chief of the Minnesota Citizens Concerned for Life is a Methodist, Dr. Fred Mecklenburg. The Rev. Charles Carroll, an Episcopal priest...
With an appealing variegated score by Andrew Lloyd Webber and words by Tim Rice, Superstar builds to considerable impact and evocativeness, in part because it manages to wear its underlying seriousness lightly. What Rice and Webber have created is a modern-day passion play that may enrage the devout but...
Crémieux's own survival results from the special status accorded to the Pope's Jews centuries ago. "During the last war," he recalls, "I wasn't arrested because I could prove I was a Pope's Jew. I actually went down to the Carpentras...