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And the often-vaunted "new-conservatism" of current undergraduates is sartorially subtler than one would expect. Girls will be boys, or at least dress like them, just as they've been doing in Cambridge almost since the Second World War. And while today's students are distinctly better groomed than...
At the placid Maronite monastery perched high above the Mediterranean, Patriarch Antoine Pierre Cardinal Khoraiche had convened a meeting of religious leaders from Lebanon's Christian communities. Even as they discussed the worsening crisis besetting their country, the distant thud of heavy artillery sounded in the hills beyond, and...
As 2,000 Poles sang patriotic anthems, hundreds of hands in the newly built church shot up in V-for-victory signs. Encamped in a side chapel, beneath a red-and-white banner bearing the image of the Madonna, a dozen protesters proclaimed a fast; they would drink only spring...
Such a challenge to church authority would have been unthinkable in the days of Glemp's predecessor, Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski, who died in 1981. The much revered prelate had preserved, almost singlehanded, the authority of the Polish church during more than three decades of Communist rule.
While supporters of the banished priest rallied at evening Masses and continued their hunger strike, a delegation took the case to church authorities. With Glemp on a monthlong visit to Brazil and Argentina, Franciszek Cardinal Macharski, who succeeded Pope John Paul II as Archbishop of Cracow, gave the petitioners a...