Word: catechumen
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...feel right.”Though Bagley initially had some difficulty attracting investors, he gained the necessary financial backing in 1999, following the tragedy at Columbine High School with its implied connection to violent video games.Eighteen months later, the company released its first game, “Catechumen,” a first-person shooter set during Christianity’s early days in the historical Roman Empire. In it, players must “rescue [their] captured Christian brethren… [who] have been taken hostage by the evil Roman Empire, controlled by Satan himself.” Because...
...culture that is also attracting religious outsiders. Southern Catholics say their real strength is not in the influx of co-believers coming into the region but in the rising number of native converts. In an area where many consider Catholics idolaters, the adult catechumen class at St. Mary's in Greenville, site of conservative Protestant Bob Jones University, has leapt to more than 60 members from a minuscule number a few years ago, according to Newman, who converted from Protestantism in 1982. Beth Burgess, 42, a lifelong Presbyterian, is converting despite the open disapproval of her parents. She feels...
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