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...where the Pope performed the first beatification of a black African woman, Sister Marie-Clementine Anuarite Nengapeta, who was beaten and bayoneted to death in 1964 as she resisted a rape. Before a hushed assembly that included Anuarite's family, John Paul recounted that the martyred nun had, "like Christ," pardoned the soldier who assaulted her. Then he added dramatically, "And I too forgive her killer with all my heart, in the name of the entire church." The man, educated by missionaries, had asked publicly for the Pope's healing words...
...African and Catholic traditions. "Having received the Christian faith, develop it," he bade the Togolese. But he warned, "It is not the Gospel that must change. It is the different cultures that must strive to better absorb the life and spiritual health brought to the world by Jesus Christ...
Surprisingly, this trio of fine actresses is eclipsed by a bit player, Norma Dell'-Agnese, as a teenage novice on the day she is accepted into the order. An innocent ecstasy suffuses her face as she becomes a "bride of Christ"; she has found release in her surrender to the Saviour's discipline. Her radiance explains the deepest mysteries: God is love, and sisterhood is beautiful. --By Richard Corliss
Taken together, the complaints suggest evangelical saturation. They claim that mandatory gatherings often opened with prayers and that some professors actively recruited cadets to join evangelical churches. At Christmastime some senior faculty members would sign religious ads in the base paper, including this 2003 message: "We believe that Jesus Christ is the only real hope for the world. If you would like to discuss Jesus, feel free to contact one of us!" Revered football coach Fisher DeBerry once hung a banner in his locker room reading I AM A MEMBER OF TEAM JESUS CHRIST. He allegedly led game-day prayer...
...control." He established a call-and-response routine at campus events. When he shouted "Airpower!" evangelical cadets would yell "Rock, sir!" The cheer was allegedly a reference to Jesus' words that his house is built on rock, intended to provoke curiosity among non-Evangelicals and start conversations about Christ. If so, it also verbally erased any distinction between loyalty to the Air Force and to Weida's God. (The academy has declined interview requests for Weida and other senior personnel, as well as all comment on the allegations, pending the upcoming report...