Word: domitilla
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...people - the friends and neighbors of the victims - will be tried by ordinary people: the friends and neighbors of the accused. Witnesses, victims and the accused give sworn testimony in front of judges, who hand out sentences according to national guidelines. "The law will be applied to everybody," says Domitilla Mukantaganzwa, executive secretary of the National Jurisdiction for Gacaca Services. Over the past 10 years, the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda in Arusha, Tanzania, has completed trying just 23 cases of political leaders charged with genocide and crimes against humanity. By some estimates, it would take 100 years for Rwanda...
...Domitilla, St. Callistus, St. Sebastian-these are among the early Christians whose shrines attract thousands of pilgrims to the catacombs underneath Rome. The 1929 Concordat that established Vatican rule over these ancient burial grounds also gave the Roman Catholic Church control of two other catacombs in which it had little interest. These, several centuries older than the Christian sites, contained the graves of more than 100,000 of the Jews who had migrated to the ancient capital after the 1st century B.C. And so the crypts were sealed off and left in darkness...
...Such criticism?coming mostly from Catholic perfectionists who want an overnight change in the church ?appears somewhat overanxious. Paul's penchant for warning against excess seems to be largely an expression of his cautious and gloomy nature. Last week, for example, on a visit to the catacombs of Domitilla, he compared the persecuted Christians of old to those who today live in "nations with atheistic and totalitarian" governments. "I sometimes wonder if Paul isn't lacking in the virtue of hope," says one Jesuit...
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