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Late last week, too late to make my deadline, I received the following e-mail: "Chris: Re: your suggestions on how the church should change: Before anything I'd abolish hell...
...earlier, he had offered up a few suggestions including bringing back the Church's universal language, Latin (you can read his other ideas in a special Forum in this week's TIME). Later on, however, he came up with another thought: abolish the underworld. His e-mail continued: "[Hell] is the big stick Mother Church uses all the time to keep the faithful in line. Abolish hell and you make an 'honest woman' of the church. You can't have love in a church based on fear of flames. (This is much more important than what I suggested about restoring...
...argument for doing away with damnation was a good one. However, with a number of pedophile/pederast priests on lam or beyond the reach of the criminal courts (and human punishment) because of the statute of limitations, no doubt many Catholics who might not have believed in hell before, might be hoping that one exists...
...National Medal of Arts in 1999. DIED. MAUDE FARRIS-LUSE, 115, the world's oldest person according to the Guinness Book of World Records; in Coldwater, Michigan. Luse reportedly credited an intake of boiled dandelion greens and fried fish as the reason for her long life. DIED. RUDOLF HELL, 100, inventor of the first machine that electronically dissolved text into a stream of dots to be reassembled at the receiving end, on which fax machines and scanners are based; in Berlin. Last year the city of Kiel commemorated his achievements by renaming the Siemenswall Rd., which leads to his former...
When he started work in Padua, Basile was shocked by what he found. Some areas, such as Hell, were in terrible condition. "Much damage resulted" from Tintori's untried process, he says. "Now chemical products and new processes are tested for years before being put to use." To counter modern problems, a new entrance filters out air pollution from the main road. Ducts for air-conditioning laid under a raised floor keep the walls at an even temperature. Crowding will be avoided: though the chapel will be open seven days a week, visitors will be admitted only in groups...