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...20th century's great historical-Jesus experts. Reading him was no joyride. His footnotes seemed to have footnotes. But that was the point. His scholarship was such that even when one of his books called the virgin birth "unresolved," it got a go-ahead from his Roman Catholic Church...
...missed the mark with the title "Pilfering Priests"--it should have been "Plundering Priests." My wife and I left the Roman Catholic Church after its hypocritical handling of the sexual-abuse scandals. We were tired of wondering to which lawsuits our contributions were being directed as a payout to another victim. Now priests, as you describe, are "living as hedonistically as Renaissance Popes" by stealing from the contributions made by their parishioners. When will the church wake up and allow priests to marry, so they can enjoy life with a companion as God and nature intend...
...priestly ways portrayed by Bing Crosby and Barry Fitzgerald in the movie Going My Way are long gone. Like most Catholics, I am disappointed in the conduct of priests who scandalize the church. However, like most Catholics, I go to Mass to worship God and not the parish priest...
Hearing Valentino Achak Deng speak at Memorial Church on Monday night would have been an uncanny experience for those who have read Dave Eggers’ latest work. Deng is the protagonist of “What is the What,” a novel that is also a fictionalized, autobiographical account of his experiences as one of the Lost Boys of Sudan. And while Eggers’ name may be on the front of the book, the voice between the covers is unmistakably Deng’s.It is a surprising move for Eggers, a writer who has made...
...song, “Where Y’all At?,” Marsalis himself delivers a poetic diatribe against modern American life. Under his shouts, the band lays into a bluesy New Orleans groove and a chorus echoes his lines as if he were preaching to a gospel church. “It can’t all be blamed on the party of Lincoln,” Marsalis howls. “The left and the right have got the country stinkin’.” Marsalis is already a controversial musician, facing resentment in the jazz...