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...pervasive problem. Roman Catholic clergymen today are violating their church's strictures on sex. Based on interviews conducted over the past 25 years with 1,000 priests and 500 other men and women, many of them the sexual partners of clerics, Baltimore psychotherapist A.W. Richard Sipe, a former Benedictine monk, estimates that half the 53,000 Roman Catholic priests in the U.S. are breaking their vow of celibacy. According to Sipe, whose findings are being published this month in A Secret World: Sexuality and the Search for Celibacy (Brunner-Mazel; $29.95), about 28% of all priests are engaged in relationships...
...then in 1517, the political divisions also became religious -- and correspondingly bloodier. An obscure monk named Martin Luther nailed to the church door in Wittenberg his 95 theses against the Roman Church's sale of indulgences, partial pardons for souls in purgatory. The Lutheran faith, subsequently known as Protestantism, spread rapidly across northern Germany. Then, in the fratricidal ordeal known as the Thirty Years' War (1618-48), the French, Swedes and other nations joined in playing out their political and religious rivalries on German soil. Much of Germany was devastated and the starving survivors reduced to misery...
...final male character is Vincent, a monk (Tom Hughes), who is also presented negatively. Though he is earnest and genuine, he represents a less natural, less sexual way of life. While he does not sexually exploit women as the two most evil male characters do, this is due to his priestly duties and possibly to his homosexuality. As a representative of Christianity, he influences, through religion, the two women in the work who most fail to live to the potential of their own womanhood. The first, the elder Etain (Patty Goldman), Conor's mother, dies in child birth seemingly because...
...anymore. Mood Indigo has been on the Billboard jazz chart for the past 15 weeks and is currently perched at No. 5. Lyrical in mood, it recalls John Coltrane's great 1962 Ballads album as it rephrases hardy perennials by Thelonious Monk, Duke Ellington and Coltrane (with an assist on two tracks from trumpeter Wynton Marsalis). Although Morgan was tutored in the dizzying strictures of bebop by Charlie Parker, his recent playing has become less slashing, his tone more glowing, his lines more feelingly supple. The new sound is certainly enticing, and has helped Morgan get some of the attention...
...Theodore Hesburgh, then Notre Dame's president, told Holtz at his final pre-hiring interview, "I will give you five years. If you ever cut corners, you will be out of here by midnight." "We like to win," says the school's current president, the Rev. Edward A. ("Monk") Malloy, who as a Notre Dame undergraduate was a varsity basketball player. As a measure of exactly how much Notre Dame likes to win, Malloy describes the 17-9 season the Irish basketball team had during his senior year in the following way: "It wasn't what you would call successful...