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Joan B. Urban, who attended GSAS and is now a professor of politics at the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., said that it was her time in Poland on the program that convinced her to study the Soviet Union in greater depth.
Terrence C. Donilon, spokesman for the Archdiocese of Boston, said that even after April’s controversy, Ajemian remains a priest of the Catholic Church, although he has been placed on administrative leave. The spokesman said he did not know when Ajemian would return.
Considering it a “delayed vocation,” Ajemian joined the Roman Catholic priesthood later in life than most, and was ordained in Massachusetts in 2001. Until his arrest, Ajemian served in the Boston area’s St. Patrick’s parish.
...Blair says he converted to catholicism to fully share his family's faith. But he plainly enjoys being part of a worldwide community with shared values, traditions and rituals. And why not? In a sense, the Catholic Church has long embodied the attributes of globalization that now engage Blair. Long before there were multinational companies, long before there were global NGOs like M?decins Sans Fronti?res, long before there were international organizations like the U.N., there were religions-communities of faith with a global reach, whose adherents tramped from one end of the earth to the other, saving souls...
But inspiring though such tales may be, Blair will not find his work easy. Religion is not an uncontroversial matter in the developing world-witness the Catholic Church's doctrine on abortion and contraception or the discrimination that women face in many Islamic societies. Moreover, in many nations, the legacy...