Word: inquisitioner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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They met in the same gray Renaissance palace where the Inquisition put Galileo on trial. But the Vatican called last week's meeting a mere "series of talks." Over coffee, a Dominican priest- theologian, Edward Schillebeeckx, 65, clad casually in a tweed sports jacket, sat answering respectful questions from...
Lance Morrow's article on bigotry does not really level with Protestants. Bigotry began with the great Inquisition of a few centuries ago, during which Christians who didn't believe what the Popes ordained were killed. Personally I think John Paul is the first real Bible-believing Pope...
That night the claque never materialized. Neither, in a sense, did Scotto's performance. Possibly unnerved by all the squabbling, she was not at her best vocally or dramatically. Pavarotti came through splendidly. Playing a 17th century nobleman who is enmeshed in a conflict with the Venetian Inquisition, he made...
Any antiabortion bill will be sillier than the Prohibition Amendment, unless a holy inquisition enforces it.
Galileo. Out of the confrontation between Galileo's celestial findings and the inflexible cosmology of the Inquisition, Bertolt Brecht fashioned a drama of high moral intelligence that probes the uneasy relation between science and power. Laurence Luckinbill's New York Actors-Theater gave the play a luminous revival...