Word: faiths
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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From the reception room of the Vatican's Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, a waiting monsignor led the visitor to a turn-of-the-century elevator. They rode down several floors, walked through rooms lined with musty, leather-bound volumes, entered yet another gloomy room. Across a heavy wooden table, decorated only with an austere black crucifix, sat a man in a black, violet-trimmed cassock. The visitor presented himself. "I am Illich...
...Mexican Bishops' Conference to recall Illich "until sustaining reasons are brought forth." But in Rome, Antonio Cardinal Samorè, conservative president of the Pontifical Commission for Latin America, issued continuing demands for an investigation of Illich and the center, until the Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith-the descendant of the Roman Inquisition -agreed. The investigation ultimately brought Illich to Rome last June...
...sweet, and perhaps inaccessible about Geoffrey Chaucer. He regarded sex as one of God's blessings. His devout and lusty pilgrims wending their garrulous way to Canterbury have an easy intimacy with natural odors, natural functions and the natural affections of men and women. The seamless unity of faith and flesh creates an abyss between the 14th century and the 20th. Chau cer's people are not paralyzed by self-consciousness in the act of love. They possess none of modern man's neurasthenic haste to import trouble in paradise. They export...
Unfortunately, the Chaucerian spirit is largely missing from a British musical called Canterbury Tales, which has not thrived on a sea change from London. Surprisingly commercial, it treats sex as a commodity and faith as an epilogue, in the manner of a Cecil B. DeMille devotional epic. Nothing is mod est about the show except its quality...
...Math 105 instructor once told his section that he would like to give the exam in the course at the end of the following semester, or even a year later. It took, he thought, that long for your mind to digest the material and accept, on the level of faith, the concepts he was trying to put across. The same is true of other courses, and the student should have the right to adjust his test-taking...