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...family tried to retrieve her bodily after she ran ,away from home to join St. Francis of Assisi and his band of pious mendicants. Legend has it that St. Thomas Aquinas' family locked him in a room with a whore to dissuade him from joining the Dominican order. But the deprogramming practiced by to day's soul snatchers seems suspiciously like a religious version of the Ludovico technique - that brain-blowing treatment administered to Alex, the anti-hero in Anthony Burgess' A Clockwork Orange. It was designed to make him acceptable to society by ridding...
...Emperor Constantine outlawed crucifixions, but the practice has been preserved in some parts of the world, not as a punishment but as a macabre stunt or commemorative rite. The latest to undergo the ordeal of the cross is a French husband-and-wife team of yoga practitioners in the Dominican Republic, who offered themselves up in the cause of world peace and to demonstrate the "power of mind over matter." French-born Mystic Patricio Tamao, 33, who is the founder of his own philosophy, Tamaoism, was the first on the cross, which was on the patio of a Santo Domingo...
Most of the nations of Latin America have severely restrictive abortion laws on the books; in fact, abortion is totally illegal, even on medical grounds, in Bolivia, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Guatemala and Panama. It is also banned outright, or only rarely permitted, in the predominantly Catholic countries of Europe, in most of the new African states, and in some Asian countries, among them Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand and Taiwan...
...nearby bunker that had been prepared by Nazi Executioner Adolf Eichmann. According to Farago, Bormann later used clerical clothes supplied by an Austrian bishop to reach Bavaria, then moved on to Northern Italy to visit his fatally ill wife in Merano. After his wife died, Bormann lived in a Dominican monastery in Bolzano, awaiting a chance to flee to Argentina where he had stored a fortune in currency, precious stones and gold, much of which had been extracted from the teeth of gas-chamber victims. Bormann, said Farago, had consigned the hoard to Argentina by U-boat before...
Commission Member Yves Congar, a French Dominican whose own works were under suspicion in preCouncil days, emphasized that even a broadened Catholic theological spectrum cannot mean "the coexistence of persons holding contrary views." Catholic diversity can only embrace those who share "identical basic views but express them differently." Roman Catholicism simply cannot afford the kind of theological pluralism that liberal Protestantism has enjoyed, says Congar-a limitation, he admits, that is both a strength and a weakness. "My Protestant friends at the World Council marvel that we were able to achieve so much in four sessions of the Vatican Council...