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THIS intertwining of the personal and the political--crises of faith in the Church's canon and the cultural canon--are the core of Sorceress. The movie is effective as a political statement because its characters are eminently real people, grappling with concrete, emotional problems and not just abstract representations of the political hierarchy...
...press conference at his headquarters in Econe, Lefebvre, 82, declared that further negotiations with the Vatican were impossible because Rome lacked "good faith." He then announced that he would consecrate four of his disciples as bishops on June 30. Since Roman Catholic canon law requires papal authorization to create new bishops, the step would automatically excommunicate Lefebvre and his newly minted prelates. By making possible the perpetuation of a sect with its own hierarchy, the consecration of illicit bishops would produce the first schism since the 1870s, when the Old Catholics rebelled against the First Vatican Council's proclamation...
...third of the Stanford student body is composed of minorities who correctly felt slighted by exclusive emphasis on white figures and works for so long. Reading selections which represent a small percentage of the world's population defeats education's mission to be accessible. Adoption of an arbitrary canon of works by the elite serves to reinforce the attitudes which firmly established white male dominance; without the repression seen throughout history, more masterpieces by women and minorities would be recognized as such...
...feel sorrier still, though, for anyone who has to sit through a show that includes not only moments like these but two renditions of the vastly overexposed Pachelbel Canon. Sex in art is usually erotic, titillating, or at least funny, but in Cloud 9, it is none of the above...
...assigned to read the Scriptures and assist at the altar. Though this is already routine in many U.S. parishes, Vatican rules state that women should perform these functions only in "extraordinary" cases. The bishops want more women trained to deliver sermons and appointed to important administrative jobs -- insofar as canon law allows...