Word: catholicism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Miramax and the Catholic League have been brawling for months over Dogma, a film about holy men behaving badly, which will hit theaters later this year. But even as the filmmakers invoke artistic freedom to defend Dogma's edgy religious scenes, they are quietly considering whether to re-edit other...
DIED. BASIL CARDINAL HUME, 76, leader of the Roman Catholic Church in England and Wales; of cancer; in London. Hume, appointed by Pope Paul VI in 1976, was entrenched in tradition, yet had a modern sensibility that irked his critics. For example, he said that most people who ignored the...
DIED. J.F. POWERS, 81, National Book Award-winning author for Morte d'Urban, his first novel; in Collegeville, Minn. Powers never reached a wide audience, but his lives of Roman Catholic priests were gems of storytelling.
Membership in the Roman Catholic Church is at 1 billion and on the rise, but its market share of the world?s population is shrinking. In Africa and Asia, the church?s "workforce" ?- the number of priests and nuns -? is increasing, a sure sign of John Paul?s road-warrior...
But first, a year-long 2000 birthday party for the man who started it all. The first day of the new millennium ?- and you don?t hear John Paul, the first celebrity pope, splitting holy hairs about January 1, 2000, not technically being the millennium ?- is the kickoff of the...