Word: dolorosa
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Blue Room ends its wildly successful run and Judi Dench is busy rehearsing for the April opening on Broadway of his London hit Amy's View, he has decided to climb out on a new limb. This month the auteur turns actor with a 12-week run performing Via Dolorosa, a monologue about, of all things, the Middle East. "I just find the regular concerns of the theater so boring," Hare says. "I just don't want to see another play about why my mother didn't love me or how my dad died of cancer...
Unlike some other Catholic revisionists, however, Cunneen identifies strands of Marian character and history with which she feels completely comfortable. The medieval idea of the Mater Dolorosa solaced her when she lost her own son. She associates the mysterious black Madonnas that popped up all over Europe in the Middle Ages and Mexico's "Little Dark One," the Virgin of Guadalupe, with Mary's affinity for the humble. She can muster historical support for the Mary described by spiritual adventurer China Galland--"a protectress who doesn't allow her children to be hunted, tortured, murdered and devoured"--and neo-Jungian...
...disturbed any Muslim religious sites, nor does the tunnel run under the Temple Mount as the Palestinian Authority had originally claimed. The only action the Israeli government took last week concerning the tunnel was to open another entrance at the far end, on the Via Dolorosa. The tunnel has been trafficked by tourists of three faiths for years, and the only difference now is that instead of having to enter and exit at the same end, visitors will now be able to enter at one end of the tunnel and exit out the other. Tadros' and Al-Ississ' anger...
Peres' career is finished, and Israel's last direct link to its founding fathers is gone. Israeli political consultant Ron Werber calls Peres' indomitable path in politics "a via dolorosa" that has led through triumph to final humiliation and grave disappointment. After this last and most anguishing loss, Labor is likely to turn to a younger generation to carry the cause of peace in opposition. A leading contender is Ehud Barak, 54, the articulate, highly educated outgoing Foreign Minister and former military Chief of Staff. As Israel's most decorated soldier, he is the logical claimant to Rabin's tough...
...whom an angry Jesus drove away from Jerusalem's Great Temple. Still, there are many questions that archaeology cannot now answer. Did Pilate pass judgment on Jesus at the Antonia fortress near the Temple site, or at Herod's palace across town? (If the latter, then the famed Via Dolorosa--the route that Jesus followed carrying his cross to Golgotha--is incorrect.) Is the tomb of Jesus beneath the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, as tradition holds, or some place unknown outside the Old City's walls...