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...federal constitution by upholding its own. On its face, the case pertains to a scholarship meant for low-income students that then-undergraduate Joshua D. Davey (now a first-year student at Harvard Law School) received to help fund his undergraduate education. Planning on a career as a clergyman, he decided to major in Pastoral Ministries, but soon after he matriculated, the state government revoked his scholarship, citing language in the state constitution which, unlike the federal constitution, explicitly bars any state funding to sectarian institutions. Yet what now is being debated, depicted on one side by Solicitor General...
...year partnership with the architect William Russell dissolved, Adjaye formed his own practice in 2000. He now has a staff of more than two dozen working on projects not only in Britain but in the U.S. as well. Last year the Rev. Eugene Rivers, a Boston-based activist clergyman, commissioned Adjaye to design an arts-and-media charter school in Dorchester, Mass...
...years. MEANWHILE IN THE U.S. ... May the Devil Take you A bereaved New Mexico family is suing its local Catholic church over a funeral mass in which the priest allegedly said the deceased was only a "lukewarm" Catholic and would go straight to hell. The church says the clergyman was merely reciting from the scriptures...
...Gogh's copious correspondence: 485 paintings, 52 drawings, 567 prints, 10 sculptures and three murals. The large number of prints reminds us that much of what this master of violent color first learned about art came from black-and-white reproductions. As the son of a Protestant clergyman, the young Van Gogh had an early bent for pious, even saccharine religious works, including two big paintings by Dutch-French artist Ary Scheffer that he saw in the Dordrecht Museum, Christus Consolator and The Agony in the Garden. The latter he deemed "unforgettable," adding that "long ago that same painting struck...
...negative response to proposals from U.S. Catholic Bishops on handling sexual abuse within the Church is unlikely to resolve the crisis. The Vatican on Friday declined to accept the "Dallas charter" adopted by U.S. bishops, which recommends a zero-tolerance policy that would remove from priestly duties any clergyman who had ever molested a minor, and also requires all sex-abuse charge to be reported to the police. Instead, the Vatican called for further study by a panel of eight clergymen - four appointed by Rome, four by the U.S. bishops - to reconcile their differing views on how to approach...