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...Holocaust has shut the door that Christ opened," Nozick said. "Whatever suffering Jesus underwent, this could not be sufficient to redeem humanity in the face of the Holocaust...
...revelations were in Starr's sense of self. Having previously compared himself to Joe Friday, Atticus Finch, George Washington and the Lone Ranger, Starr upped the ante on 20/20, when he tacitly likened himself to Sir Thomas More ("He took the law very seriously") and, half-jokingly, to Jesus Christ (Starr said his reaction on first hearing of Lewinsky was "a little bit of 'Let this cup pass from me'"). The More reference was actually kind of snarky, what with its parallel suggestion of Clinton as a slovenly, appetite-riven Henry VIII. Still, it would take someone with image-making...
...course, the Holy See zealously protects the integrity of Catholic sacraments--whether they involve marriage between a man and woman, or the Eucharist. It maintains that the gender of a priest is not accidental but essential. Christ was male, he appointed male apostles, so the minister who absolves sins and personifies Christ in celebrating Mass must be male. "I declare," wrote Pope John Paul II in 1994, "that the Church has no authority whatsoever to confer priestly ordination on women...
...purple symbolizes penitence, an unintended irony.) Garbed in forbidden raiment, the parishioners rock to the lyric, "You allowed us to come together one more time." It is this communion that sustains Marian Moschetti, a lapsed Catholic who rediscovered her faith five years ago. "I saw the true spirit of Christ embodied in this community," she says. "Corpus Christi isn't a building. It isn't bricks and mortar. I will stay with this church...
...appalled by the so-called Christians who preach "God-sanctioned" hatred [NATION, Oct. 26]. Didn't Christ preach tolerance for his fellow man, regardless of his personal life-style? JANNA PEEVLER Knoxville, Tenn...