Word: catholicism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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The savage beating of a black, Haitian immigrant by the NYPD in August looked as if it could be the spark that ignited the city's always-simmering racial tensions. More recently, one of Giuliani's Jewish political allies published a letter in a Jewish newspaper describing a Messinger mayoralty...
"I think we need to merge the Catholic Church and Planned Parenthood," Tingle said. "They could be the Planned Catholics of Cambridge."CrimsonDarryl C. LiMOUNTING A CHALLENGE: City Council candidate IAN C. MACKINNON speaks out at debate.
Harrington's introduction immediately gives an intriguing definition of the term placebo, which, in addition to being Latin for "I shall please," actually originates in the opening phrase of the Catholic vespers for the dead. This irony alone is enough to sustain the casual reader's curiosity through Harrington's...
...accepted by neither the local Afrikaans children nor Worcester's English society. His lack of religious education causes further problems at school. When cornered by the teacher and asked if he is "Christian, Roman Catholic, or Jewish," Coetzee's passion for classical civilization inspires him to choose "Roman" Catholicism, although his family background is in fact Protestant. Ostracized by the Afrikaans students, he finds his only friends among the other outcasts--the Catholics and Jews...
Bill Cain is probably the only TV writer in Los Angeles who lives in a Jesuit parish and has taken vows of chastity and poverty. Cain, a 49-year-old Roman Catholic priest, is the co-creator and spirit behind Nothing Sacred, ABC's controversial new series about an iconoclastic...