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...started my career more than two decades ago as a community organizer on the South Side of Chicago, working with churches to help neighborhoods that had been devastated by plant closings. Block by block, we fought to create job-training programs, improve housing conditions and help people live their lives with some measure of dignity. And eventually, I realized that I wasn't just helping other people - through service, I also found a community that embraced me, a church to belong to and the direction I'd been seeking. Through service, I found that my own story fit into...
Pope Benedict XVI's opposition to condoms, even as a weapon to help combat the spread of AIDS, should surprise no one who knows anything about Catholic Church teachings. The 1968 encyclical Humanae Vitae, penned by Pope Paul VI, explicitly forbids contraception as denying the Creator's will that humans be fruitful and multiply. In the years since, despite scientific consensus that condoms greatly reduce the risk of contracting the HIV virus, nothing has budged at the Vatican. Any artificial contraception is a sin against God. Full stop...
...Still, Benedict's public declaration on March 17, as he was en route to Africa on his first visit as Pontiff, that advocacy of condoms actually "increases the problem" of AIDS has pushed the rhetorical envelope - and enraged may inside and outside the church - like only this quietly frank, theologically driven Pontiff knows how. The Spanish government announced it was sending 1 million condoms to Africa just as Benedict was arriving on the AIDS-ravaged continent. By the following evening, top government officials in France, Germany and the Netherlands had all publicly condemned the Pope's statement. Vatican spokesman Father...
...recently seen its main sources of revenue—donations, fund-raising, and membership fees—decline during the recession. In 2008, Passim’s financial hurdles, which Scotti attributed in part to lackluster ticket sales, resulted in a 30% staff cut. Club Passim, nestled between Church and Brattle Streets, has been in existence under various guises since it first opened as the jazz venue Club 47 more than five decades ago. Matt Smith, Passim’s manager and booking agent, said that he did not foresee alcohol affecting Passim’s culture...
...assisted CPD with several individuals, who had jumped over the fence between Massachusetts Ave and Linden Street and were having a party. Officers report that CPD handled the remainder of the call. 3/14/09 12:34 a.m.—Officers observed three individuals standing on the steps of Memorial Church. An officer smelled marijuana. The officers conducted a field interview with the individuals. The individuals were sent on their way, and the officers confiscated the marijuana. 3:57 p.m.—Officers were dispatched to take a report of an unwanted guest sleeping in the lobby of the Holyoke...