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Kaplan, a professor at Loyola University in Chicago, writes with the pedantic style and method one might expect from a creative writing teacher. A hefty portion of the story, like filler in dog food, merely occupies space and adds mass but is unable to offer nutrition or satisfaction. The plot is contrived and stilted, irritating the audience rather than entrancing it. The book engenders the horrible realization that literature's tap of Great Fiction...
...over 15 years, concludes that the priesthood inevitably attracts a certain number of potential molesters because of the celibacy rule. He thinks one preventive measure would be to require priests to live in religious communities where there are personal warmth and mutual support. Psychologist Eugene Kennedy of Chicago's Loyola University says that the large number of priests suffering from sexual conflicts "constitutes a pastoral problem of the first magnitude" but that bishops by and large have refused to investigate the issue seriously. As the lawsuits and ruined lives keep piling up, such lethargy will no longer...
...Divided Loyola-ties...
Part I: William Desmond, a graduate of Loyola High School in Baltimore, recently bragged in a "Voice of the New Generation" piece on the New York Times Op-Ed page, that he had been accepted to Harvard, Yale and Princeton, but decided to attend Loyola College in Baltimore, which impressed him more...
...what did we learn from the news story? Mr. Desmond decided to attend Loyola College because it gave him a full scholarhip--a fact which he conveniently omitted from his half-baked indictment of Harvard education. It seems that both his parents are on the faculty of Loyola, and all children of professors there get a free ride. This fact was not mentioned in the Op-Ed piece, making it look like Desmond had chosen Loyola over Harvard, Yale and Princeton on merits alone. How enlightening. Maybe the Times should print news stories on their Op-Ed contributors more often...