Word: catholicization
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Not only is it considered impolitic to campaign for the papacy, it is also against Vatican law. The Roman Catholic Church bars elector Cardinals (those under 80) from talking publicly about the matter. Still, as a frail John Paul II celebrated the 25th anniversary of his papacy last week, a...
Short, pudgy and quick to smile, the Milan leader has few enemies--a miraculous accomplishment in Vatican circles. A moral theologian believed to have helped pen the Pope's seminal 1995 document on bioethics, Tettamanzi has strong conservative credentials. But he has also spoken out against the mistreatment of immigrants...
...women to humiliation, threats of eternal damnation, and pure outright sadism, which all but force the women—many of whom had been entirely sexually innocent prior to their arrival—to sell themselves for the slightest opportunity of escape. Not so much an attack on Catholicism as all religion, this film depicts the needless abuses inflicted upon women in the name of faith...
After Justice Scalia’s controversial remarks at an event associated with the Knights of Columbus—a Catholic organization, and, notably, one of the groups that urged the inclusion of “under God” in 1954—he has opted out of the...
As counterbalance to today's facetious, preadolescent movie environment, however, these two dark, ambitious dramas have much to recommend them--and a lot in common. Both are ensemble pieces that intercut the activities and attitudes of three despairing people. Both pictures are, in a way, deeply Catholic statements about grieving...