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Crowds packed into the First Parish Church on Saturday to hear Sarah Vowell, a contributor to NPR’s “This American Life,” discuss the Puritans of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, or, as she called them, “bickering Jesus freaks...
...What a dump, huh?” Vowell asked with a smile, acknowledging the fitting setting. John Winthrop, the first governor of Massachusetts, had banished Anne Hutchinson for heresy in this church...
...people who descended on Harvard Square this Sunday for the 29th annual celebration of Oktoberfest were greeted by a strange sight: 300 feet of red pleather. That attraction—the world’s longest couch, which was featured on Church Street—was just one of the many draws at Cambridge’s most recent rendition of the 200 year-old Bavarian tradition. But while the Cambridge organizers imported the name from Munich’s storied event, they didn’t necessarily import the spirit: unlike Bavaria’s legions of inebriated revelers...
...Indeed, hermitism in the Catholic Church and its eastern branches is not some kind of a primal escape to nature and freedom, but a role defined by canonical law and subject to the discipline and hierarchy of the Church. To become a hermit, one first has to be either a member of a monastic order, or to be consecrated by a bishop. Father Dario had been a Catholic priest living in Florida and making $200 an hour working as a psychologist when God told him to give up his worldly possessions and take on the contemplative life. But the Word...
...faith, only God can make a saint; these four are among those who "have emerged as individuals who can light the way ahead," as the Modern Catholic Encyclopedia puts it. But the means by which these saints are identified - and by whom - has varied over the history of the church...