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...that fire and brimstone were raining down on the candidates last week as they alternately attacked each other's positions and apologized for their own--much to the delight of Democrats watching from the sidelines and imagining that neither man could emerge from this inferno unscarred? McCain embarked on what looked very much like a kamikaze run, flying straight into the heart of Christian evangelicalism and declaring, in a speech in Virginia Beach, Va., that "neither party should be defined by pandering to the outer reaches of American politics and the agents of intolerance, whether they be Louis Farrakhan...
...article about the possibility that the Pope might step down [RELIGION, Jan. 24], you mentioned that in Dante's poem Inferno, Pope Celestine V was assigned to Hell for voluntarily abdicating. You suggested that this condemnation was in some way mitigated by the fact that Celestine was placed "only in the first circle of Hell: Limbo." In fact, many translators label Celestine's place in Hell "the antechamber," and (to Dante, anyway) Celestine resides among the most despised souls. CHRISTIAN TALBOT New York City...
...there has been no voluntary papal abdication since Celestine V in 1294. And while Celestine was later canonized, Dante placed him in the Inferno for il gran rifiuto (the great refusal), albeit only in the first circle of Hell: Limbo. Other pontiffs have been removed by murder, martyrdom, military intervention or rare coups by the College of Cardinals during pagan rule, the confusion of the Dark Ages, Byzantine meddling, populist revolutions or chronic political impotence. But what would happen if one of the most significant successors of St. Peter in the past 100 years were to give up his throne...
...When two of our brothers called Mayday, four more of our brother Worcester firefighters went into that inferno, again, without hesitation," he added...
...perhaps the most stunning piece was Edward Derwent's Dante's Inferno (1986). Although loosely based on Dante's allegory, the tapestry, a scintillating combination of glass beads and nylon thread, challenging the very medium of tapestry...