Word: cathedrale
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The week was a tense and painful one for the government of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. The British public was outraged by the murder of the policewoman, Constable Yvonne Fletcher, 25, and by the thought that the Libyan "diplomat" who had fired an automatic weapon into a crowd of anti...
The Maundy Thursday services at the Episcopal Cathedral of St. John the Divine in Manhattan included such now familiar symbols of a progressive liturgy as a dramatic reading and a symbolic dance. But when a four-foot bronze statue of Jesus on the cross was unveiled, gasps could be heard...
The work, created in 1975 by Sculptor Edwina Sandys, 45, for the United Nations' Decade for Women, had been shown in galleries and art exhibits, but it had never before been displayed in a church. To New York Suffragan Bishop Walter Dennis, it was a "desecration" of Christian symbols...
As for those who made a point of walking behind the cathedral's main altar to have a look during the statue's ten-day showing, the reactions were mixed, but rarely mild. It was "not at all blasphemous" to Katherine Austin, who thought it reflected a mystic...
Nearly four decades after the end of World War II, East Berlin still seems to be digging out from the rubble left by Allied bombardments and the advancing Red Army. The old German Cathedral, a stone's throw from Checkpoint Charlie and West Berlin, stands charred and roofless, awaiting...