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...many American Catholics remain livid over the church's recent pedophilia scandals. Benedict agreed in remarks to U.S. bishops that the issue had been "sometimes very badly handled"--the first real admission of the church's culpability--but still found enough blame to lay on America's "wider context of sexual mores" as well. The Pope's political reflexes will be tested again and again as he seeks to shepherd a flock that does not always share the certainties of its leaders, sacred and secular alike...
...time. History, as it is wont to do, has repeated itself. In an interview for an exhibit of his photos at Austrian museum the Kunsthalle Wien, Snow’s contemporary and friend, Ryan McGinley, places the recurrence of these contemporary art themes into context. “When you live in downtown Manhattan each generation of kids that are involved in that culture seem to be all doing the same thing. When I first moved to New York I never wanted to leave. I think I might have left the city once over a period of seven years...
...painted and lined with a surprising amount of detail. Their life-like, agile representations of people—which look as though they could jump back to life at a moment’s notice—sets the figurines apart from the static nature of most statues.The historical context of these porcelains was the subject of a day-long symposium, “Tables of Content,” and a dance and music performance that took place in the Sackler and Fogg Musuems this past Saturday. “I wanted to highlight this aspect of porcelain that...
However, the Pope also made a point of placing the response to the scandal in "a wider context of sexual mores," citing pornography and the decline of traditional family models. "What does it mean to speak of child protection when pornography and violence can be viewed in so many homes through media widely available today?" It remains to be seen which Catholics will find most meaningful: Benedict's groundbreaking but guarded admission or his contextualization of abuse in what he sees as a general U.S. trend toward loose, if legal sexual practices...
Obama has since apologized if he offended anyone and has tried to put the remarks in context, saying it shouldn't be surprising that a lot of people are angry given the government's failure to improve their lot. But his efforts to explain the nuances of his meaning have largely been lost amidst an all-out assault by the Clinton campaign, and with just six days left before the all important Pennsylvania primary next Tuesday, the gaffe came at a particularly bad time. He had been gaining in Keystone State polls, coming within 6 percentage points of Clinton last...