Word: catholicization
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While eating dinner in his village in southern Sudan one night in 1987, John Bul Dau had a premonition that something was amiss. Several hours later, he awoke to the sound of gunfire and bombs going off as government troops raided his village. Dau, one of the �...
...significant part of any Pope's job is to manage questions of doctrine and discipline. Benedict's "no wiggle room" approach is increasingly seen in the context of his great battle to defend Catholicism on its historical home turf of Europe, where he sees a kind of cult of secularism. The Pope's response is not simply to reaffirm the Christian values of the old continent, a goal also expressed by the continent's more liberal leaders and theologians like Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams and Cardinal Godfried Daneels. In addition, Benedict professes a very specific kind of Christianity...
Despite the best cross-community relations in decades and increasing political cooperation, it's still hard to get officers to talk about their place in this long-divided land. When off duty, says Fitzpatrick, "I don't tell people I work for the police. I tell them I'm in...
Consequently, when Albert turned 6 and had to go to school, his parents did not care that there was no Jewish one near their home. Instead he went to the large Catholic school in their neighborhood. As the only Jew among the 70 students in his class, he took the...
Some religious Jews reacted by pointing out that Spinoza had been excommunicated from Amsterdam's Jewish community for holding these beliefs, and that he had also been condemned by the Catholic Church. "Cardinal O'Connell would have done well had he not attacked the Einstein theory," said one Bronx rabbi...