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Shanley, now 71, didn't just have sex with children; he publicly endorsed the concept. He didn't just use his collar to get access to minors; he ran a special ministry for the most vulnerable among them. And he didn't fly below the radar of the church hierarchy; the 818-page archive released by the Boston Archdiocese under court order shows that two Cardinals and a phalanx of deputies knew about allegations of his abuse going back more than 30 years. But instead of handing Shanley over to police or at least defrocking him, they ignored, protected...
...problem with current women-in-peril films is they've got the peril but not the deep emotional resonance," observes Camille Paglia, the post-feminist author and agitator. "They're driven by gimmicky, high-concept plots. But the center of great women's pictures is the long close-up of a woman's soulful, suffering face as her eyes brim with tears. Today's actresses are too buff and brittle to take that kind of scrutiny...Too many know how to do everything but play real women. If the women-in-jeopardy motif can make filmmakers start to think...
...century. Now it’s true that Freud did say that, but then he also said “All I did was add a great psychological foundation.” People before him like Feuerbach and Voltaire and many people of the Enlightenment said that this whole concept of intelligence beyond the universe was a projection of our own and our needs. What Freud does is identify those needs or those wishes; that’s the psychological foundation that he adds...
...accident and life on this universe a matter of chance, and the other is that there’s an intelligence beyond the universe that is somehow related to our purpose in being here. That worldview is the lens through which we see the universe. It influences our concept of where we come from, our heritage, who we are, our identity, our moral code that we live by, our relationships, how we see other people and where we think we’re going, our destiny...
...book contends that the concept of children as nonsexual beings is a relatively modern one and says forms of "sex play" considered harmless 25 years ago--such as masturbation before puberty--are now regarded by some psychologists as signs of abuse. Levine interviews family members who have been separated from one another when social workers made dubious claims of sexual abuse. She talks to a 21-year-old man sent to jail for up to 24 years for having sex with his 13-year-old girlfriend and wonders whether justice was truly served. The very fact that an author might...