Word: catholicism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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About 20 students gathered last night at Harvard's Catholic Student Center to reflect on Jewish and Catholic conceptions of guilt.
"Every time I say something about Catholic guilt, everybody laughs," said Jacqueline Landry, a Roman Catholic chaplain and member of Harvard's United Ministry, who opened the discussion. "Everybody, I think, has some baseline appreciation of what I mean."
Landry spoke for approximately 15 minutes about the cultural and theological roots of guilt in the Catholic tradition and its evolution over time. Dr. Bernie Steinberg, the director of Harvard's Hillel, followed Landry, with remarks about the role and nature of Jewish guilt.
Patterson, the author of seven books on racism and poverty, hearkened the farthest back in time for his choice of Martin Luther, the German who in the early sixteenth century posted his 95 theses attacking abuses in the Catholic Church and launched the Protestant Reformation, as his person of the...
DIED. LOUIS MALLE, 63, French film director; of complications from lymphoma; in Beverly Hills. Working on both sides of the Atlantic, Malle unflinchingly explored topics like incest (1971's Le Souffle au Coeur), France's collaboration with its Nazi occupiers (Lacombe, Lucien, 1974) and child prostitution (1978's Pretty Baby...