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...girls in calico dresses, removed from log cabin homes, looking questioningly into nowhere as they were led from their polygamist enclave into a secular world they have always been taught to fear. They sang hymns as they were driven away along with 139 adult women from Eldorado's Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, a renegade branch of the Mormon faith...
...other experts, however, the concern is not the separation of church and state but deprogramming. The bottom line, according to Utah psychologist Dr. Larry Beall, who has worked work with women and children who have fled polygamists sects, is the FLDS is a "cult" involved in "plain ole brainwashing since birth." Says Beale, "They have been taught that anyone on the outside is untrustworthy. They are the enemy and they are going to hurt you." He adds, "My experiences with these kids is once they are out of the controlled environment they come to enjoy their freedom...
...following year she was convicted anew for decrying the loss of French identity and tradition due to the multiplication of mosques "while our church bells fall silent for want of priests." Darkening Bardot's public image in both cases was her marriage to an active supporter and political ally of French National Front leader Jean-Marie...
...Prayer Meetings The most intense will probably be his 5:30 Wednesday prayer service at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, the ecumenical prayer service on Friday at 6:00 p.m. at St. Joseph's Church in Manhattan, and at his mass at Nationals Stadium at 9:30 a.m. Thursday and Sunday Mass at 2:30 p.m. at Yankee Stadium. The motto for this entire trip is "Christ Is Our Hope," so expect that theme to be repeated at each venue...
...hoping that his broader philosophical themes will be applied to the politics of the day. Andrea Riccardi, founder of the Communita' di San Egidio, a leading Catholic diplomatic and inter-faith group, called Benedict "one of the keenest observers of modern religious life," whose expertise extends beyond his own Church. "John Paul had a specific geopolitical design from the start of his papacy: the fall of communism. Benedict has more of a 'geo-cultural' design, wanting to challenge contemporary society. Foremost, he wants to provoke a crisis of conscience in a West that has grown closed to faith...