Word: expressionism
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Though this snub has not sent crashing shockwaves across the Atlantic and into Boston Harbor, this seemingly archaic expression of parental approval of marriage, or matchmaking in the absence of parents, is not limited only to Balmoral. There are similar marital confusions and difficulties present in the United States.
Regarding the laity, the Pope made it clear that he did not consider individual conscience a legitimate rationale for believers' second-guessing the church's positions on birth control, abortion, female ordination and a host of other teachings. "Opposition to the church's pastors," he wrote, "cannot be seen as...
The pre-vote guesswork is like nothing so much as handicapping a horse race, and the field is deep but without a clear favorite. Although John Paul personally selected all but three of the 117 voting Cardinals, don't expect a clone of the departed Pontiff. The outcome is often...
How We Can Help the Poor Your excerpt from Sachs' book did not so much as mention a major cause of poverty - overpopulation. In recent decades there has been a conspiracy of silence by religious leaders opposed to contraceptives and by politicians and intellectuals who prefer to avoid the sensitive...
In his interview with Syrian President Bashar Assad [March 14], Joe Klein reported that Assad "evaded the question of closing Palestinian 'rejectionist' group offices in Damascus." What is Assad supposed to do? Free speech requires that all views, however unwelcome, be allowed expression. Assad strikes me as a decent man...