Word: clinical
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...keeping with Vatican policy, the directives proscribe abortion and a host of reproductive services, including birth control, morning-after pills and sterilization. "We can't say we're opposed to abortion as a profound human evil and then go out and build an abortion clinic," says Father Michael Place, president of the Catholic Health Association, which represents more than 2,000 Catholic facilities in the U.S. "We can't be other than...
...pokes at Catholic doctrine--that God is a woman (Alanis Morissette), that the last descendant of Jesus (Linda Fiorentino) works in an abortion clinic, that there was a 13th Apostle who was black (Chris Rock)--Dogma is a tortured testament from a true believer. In an age when not only belief in God but belief itself brings a smirk to hip, jaded faces, this is a film out of time, the most devout movie in a modern setting since Robert Bresson's Diary of a Country Priest (1951), and a worthy successor to The Last Temptation of Christ, Martin Scorsese...
...movie follows Bethany (Linda Fiorentino), an abortion clinic employee on the brink of a crisis of faith, who is unknowingly the great, great, great, etc. grand-niece of Jesus Christ. She is enlisted by a seraph named Metatron (a whiny Alan Rickman) to thwart two banished angels from getting to a church in New Jersey. These winged renegades, Loki (Matt Damon) and Bartelby (Ben Affleck), have found a loophole in Catholic doctrine which could cleanse them of their sins and allow them to re-enter heaven, negating the truth that God is infallible and consequently unmaking existence. These two Jersey...
Sturdy is also active in the Harvard-Radcliffe Foundation for Women in Athletics. In addition, the entire team runs a clinic once a year for National Women and Girls in Sports...
This past weekend, the team ran a clinic at a local school for children with behavioral, emotional and psychological disorders. Team members will remain pen pals with the children...