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...then the mother of an abused boy and, finally, Marie Darcy. Darcy has 10 children back home in Merrimack, N.H., but left them tonight to conspire with the Catholic lay group Voice of the Faithful because, well, because it touches on her status as part of the body of Christ. "We are all heirs to Christ, but it doesn't feel that way," says Darcy. "The decisions come down from above, and that's it. The people in the pews quake, wondering what's going to happen...
...institution and people, are not integral to what it means to be a Catholic. The ban on birth control--reaffirmed by fiat by Pope Paul VI after many leading theologians and church officials seemed poised to reverse it--is not an issue as vital as, say, the divinity of Christ, the fact of the Resurrection or the miracle of the Mass. A celibate priesthood--one of the many reasons why vocations have collapsed--is an administrative matter. It was not mandatory for the first 11 centuries of the church's existence, and was imposed primarily to rescue the church from...
...gain from taking the chance. That extended to the content: frontal nudity, extreme violence and, instead of the standard TV euphemisms, nearly every curse word short of the big F. "Whenever I hear somebody on a cop show say, 'Get on the ground, dirtbag,' I think, 'Oh, for Christ's sake, I'm an adult,'" says Chiklis. More important, The Shield did what network cop shows have lately abandoned: it created a richly imagined world with continuing story lines, driven by L.A.'s roiling racial politics--achieving a payoff far bigger than solving the murder of the week...
Three weeks ago, two Harvard students contacted Alive in Christ, the Park Street Church ministry for Christians “struggling with same-sex attraction” where Houston volunteers...
Next year, Houston will serve as co-leader of the ministry, working two days a week at Alive in Christ and four at Harvard. He predicts “more and more people are going to come and ask for help...