Word: catholicization
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Spellings' announcement had a lot of school administrators smiling--although a key component angered some of the legislators who will eventually have to vote on it. A proposed set-aside of $488 million for private schools (which, if private-leaning evacuees seek out the kind of education they left behind...
"It is a bad idea to have homosexuals in the seminary. It would be a lot like having co-ed showers in college." BRIAN SAINT-PAUL, editor of Crisis magazine, a Catholic journal, on word that the Vatican is beginning a survey of U.S. seminaries for "evidence of homosexuality," in...
"As monasteries go, Taizè is young- a full millennium younger than the nearby medieval abbey of Cluny. Moreover, though it now includes 13 Roman Catholic members, Taizè was founded as a Protestant community in 1940. A Swiss theology student named Roger Schutz, then 25, came to France looking...
It all looked sadly familiar. After a parade by Northern Ireland's Orange Order was diverted from a Catholic area, members and supporters of the Protestant brotherhood rioted. Over most of last week, cars were burned, blockades were erected and gunmen turned automatic weapons on police. Most people thought spectacles...
In her debut novel, 2000's Bee Season, Myla Goldberg intricately etched four members of a contemporary Jewish family and set them in motion against one another, charting the repercussions of even their subtlest interactions. For her follow-up, the author changes tack completely, striving for the historical epic. In...