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Harris also glosses over current examples of moderation and tolerance in religion. While he lingers for dozens of pages upon the anti-Semitism of the Inquisition, he does not address Vatican II or the Catholic Church??s current theology, which accepts other religions as possible paths to heaven...
...Listen, we’re not 100 percent sure Jesus is the Lord,” he said, referencing the double entendre posed by the church??s name. “But we’re going with...
...next piece.Those who left missed a great performance by Clayton W. Brooks III ’10, who played the Toccata from Leon Boellmann’s Suite Gothique. Brooks displayed talent well beyond that of many of the upperclassmen organists during this difficult piece. Carson Cooman, Memorial Church??s research associate in music, continued with “In Your Presence is Fullness of Joy,” by Patricia Van Ness. The less intricate piece served as a fine interlude between Brooks’s intense performance and the two final pieces.Joy-Leilani Garbutt from...
...year when films like the “The Da Vinci Code” and “Jesus Camp” have questioned the core beliefs and practices of popular religion, “Deliver Us From Evil”—a documentary about the Catholic Church??s lengthy history with pedophilia and subsequent cover-ups— turns a more realistic lens on similar subject matter. Written and directed by Amy Berg, a young journalist who said she felt compelled to make the film after Boston’s Cardinal Law scandal broke...
...film is shortsighted in its consideration of the wider problem of child abuse in the Church. Showcasing advocates of the victims’ rights like Father Tom Doyle does allow viewers to see the work being done within the Church to combat the problem. But by implicating the Church??s most powerful figure—Cardinal Ratzinger, now known as Pope Benedict XVI—in the scandal, the film accuses the entire hierarchy of the cover-up and reconstructs Church history to peripherally implicate priest celibacy as the cause of clergymen’s sexual deviance...