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...Arts, a theater and arts-education group near Cleveland. In January ticket sales and donor money "fell off a cliff," says Lucinda Einhouse, the Beck Center's president. In April she traveled to Washington to meet with Kaiser. She went home and instituted some, if not all, of his gospel. Marketing will be maintained. But the theater will mount fewer shows next year, and some will be chestnuts like Fiddler on the Roof and Peter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Culture Crunch: The Recession and the Arts | 6/8/2009 | See Source »

...wasn't until the 12th century that formal rules were established forbidding clergymen to have sex. According to the Gospel of Matthew, Peter himself had a mother-in-law (which would usually imply a wife as well). The ban had theological roots--abstaining from pleasures of the flesh to demonstrate one's commitment to the church--but there was a practical reason too: celibacy meant no offspring vying to inherit church property. That's not to say the rules were always followed, however. Many priests' spirits proved weak and their flesh willing--notably the sybaritic Pope Alexander VI, who installed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Brief History Of: Celibacy | 5/25/2009 | See Source »

...first wave of scandals broke in the '90s that he felt able to tell his story. "Years ago, if I had mentioned to anyone here what had happened, no one would have believed me," he says. "Everyone here thought that whatever a priest or a brother said was the gospel truth. It's only since all of this blew up that people started saying to me, 'Did that really happen in the schools?' Now I can turn round...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: For Ireland's Catholic Schools, a Catalog of Horrors | 5/21/2009 | See Source »

Over eight days, Benedict delivered 28 different sermons and speeches, more than 15,000 words that carried his message of peace and reconciliation - and his reading of the Christian gospel - to a religiously charged and troubled land. But the jury is still out on whether this theologian Pontiff has the geopolitical wherewithal to matter in these complicated times. With the Obama Administration gearing up to try to jump-start Middle East negotiations - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrives in Washington next week - the Pope's presence in the region could have offered an extra jolt of momentum. Instead, the conflicts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Grading Pope Benedict's Mideast Pilgrimage | 5/15/2009 | See Source »

From an early age, Timothy Wright, 61, excelled at playing the piano at his church. Later he composed music that would make him a Grammy-nominated gospel star. He died on April 23 from injuries suffered last July, after a vehicle driven in the wrong direction collided with his car, killing his wife and grandson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones | 4/30/2009 | See Source »

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