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...true face looks out from a gallery of photos lining the wall of his parents' apartment on New York City's East 74th Street, next to the Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Archdiocesan Cathedral, where his father serves as dean. There is little George in his white-and-gold altar-boy robes next to Archbishop Iakovos. There he is, poised and smiling, accepting the Truman scholarship from Margaret Truman, and robed again as the salutatorian at Columbia University...
...operas, setting primal conflicts to soaring emotional lines. The force of his will is as imposing as the range of his art. He goes for majesty over subtlety and, often as not, finds what he's looking for. Magic-lantern images are everywhere: in the blood pouring from an altar crucifix; in the Castle Dracula chauffeur garbed as Darth Vader; in the endless supertrain of the count's cape; in the placental gel and rat's-nest cocoons that encase the vampire. But more: in the wonderfully spectral mood that does justice to the romance at Dracula's heart...
Traditional Catholic theology holds that because God was incarnate as a man, only men can serve as representatives of Jesus Christ at the altar. In its 1976 Declaration against women priests, the Vatican said that although the incarnation "took place according to the male sex," this does not imply superiority of gender. The document added, however, that there is a "profound fittingness" in having priests with "natural resemblance" to the male Jesus Christ, since they represent him in the Mass. "If you were staging a Nativity play, would you have Cary Grant or Nick Nolte play Mary?" asks Ronda Chervin...
...primate of world Anglicanism, Archbishop of Canterbury George Carey, said last year that "the idea that only a male can represent Christ at the altar is a most serious heresy," but backed down when Anglo-Catholics objected. Those who support women's ordination insist that what matters theologically is that God became human, not that he became male. Sister Joan Chittister, a feminist Benedictine in Erie, Pennsylvania, says focusing on ) males "flies in the face of the theology of the Incarnation that says Jesus became flesh, your flesh and mine just as well." She calls this "a theological tragedy...
...from cases of blatant misrepresentation, the voters can expect no more than a return proportional to the raw materials they send to Washington. The current situation in the capital indicates that those who vote for one party locally and another nationally are ready to sacrifice governmental efficiency on the altar of their preferences...