Word: catechismic
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Social Chance. Brecht begins where Lear ends: the world is a rack on which mankind is tortured. A character in one of the plays is asked to recite what is called the short catechism-"it'll get worse, it'll get worse, it'll get worse." Starting...
If Bresson's theme, the first parish assignment of a young French curate, is sufficiently mundane, his treatment of it becomes increasingly unconvincing. The priest himself suffers from all manner of physical and mental ills (he doubts his faith, and is ultimately a victim of cancer of the stomach), but...
The Archbishop of Canterbury stood up to open the Convocation of Canterbury one morning last week, and the aging bishops before him, who barely filled a quarter of Westminster Church House Assembly Hall, stared listlessly at the agenda-the revised catechism, an address on science and religion, "Is Suicide a...
During the Little Rock segregation crisis, Roman Catholic parochial schools of Arkansas seemed so safely segregated that many Protestant parents began sending their children to them. The Roman Catholic Bishop of Little Rock, Albert Louis Fletcher, 63, kept silent during the public school hassle, despite his own strong statement in...
Some of the responsibility for a continuation of such a patronizing attitude among students and faculty members must rest upon the Catholics themselves. Too often they retreat from discussions of religion; they offer a catechism answer, or the excuse "I really haven't had time to read up on this...