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...Flying Dutchman, sailing the centuries for an incarnation of the woman he loved. He is Death, transmitting a venereal plague in his blood, in his kiss. He is even Jesus, speaking Jesus' last words as he dies, a martyr whose mission is to redeem womankind. Husband, seducer, widower, murderer, Christ and Antichrist, Dracula contains multitudes. He is every mortal man and every mortality with which man threatens women...
...margin of two votes the rule that only men may serve as Anglican priests. Despite pleas for prayer and calm, the controversy will echo throughout the Anglican Communion, and reverberate through all of Christianity, for years to come. On one side are those who believe that the mission of Christ's church is damaged when half its members are denied the chance to use their God-given gifts. On the other are those who are equally devout in their faith that the male priesthood was instituted by Jesus Christ himself 19 centuries ago when he called...
Traditional Catholic theology holds that because God was incarnate as a man, only men can serve as representatives of Jesus Christ at the altar. In its 1976 Declaration against women priests, the Vatican said that although the incarnation "took place according to the male sex," this does not imply superiority of gender. The document added, however, that there is a "profound fittingness" in having priests with "natural resemblance" to the male Jesus Christ, since they represent him in the Mass. "If you were staging a Nativity play, would you have Cary Grant or Nick Nolte play Mary?" asks Ronda Chervin...
...inclination to pity a homeless woman who has to take her two children to live in a church: "On Sundays," she tells us, "the nuns roll out a sheet of dough and, with a shot glass, they cut out those--you know, what do you call it--body of Christ things...
...definitely on the agenda. She then introduces herself as Dita, your hostess and the hero(ine) of Sex. What follows is a written defense of pornography and a laundry list of all the naughty topics Madonna has flirted with over the last ten years. Bondage--check. Lesbianism--check. Christ imagery--check. United colors of Bennetton orgies, swimming pools, nipple ring nibbling and celebrity appearances by Isabella Rosselini, Naomi Campbell and Vanilla...