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...past several decades than they have for Catholic men. Again the reason often cited for the decline in the number of women entering religious orders--that they are barred from rising in the ranks to become priests--may be only part of a complex story. Father Richard John Neuhaus, 59, founder and publisher of the neoconservative interfaith monthly First Things, thinks women's freedom not to enter the church out of necessity may be good for them and for the church: "One could argue that from the late 19th century on, American Catholicism was producing an unnatural and perhaps unhealthy...
Margaret O'Brien Steinfels, 54, editor since 1988 of the liberal Catholic biweekly Commonweal, is less sanguine than Neuhaus about this phenomenon: "The fact that the Catholic Church is so rich in institutional life was due to women religious, and their disappearance has gone almost unlamented. They made an enormous contribution...
...reference to Christianity," observes Jeffrey Burton Russell, a specialist on Satan at the University of California at Santa Barbara. Others say Pagels finds the devil in passages where he is never explicitly mentioned or overplays marginal texts. Pagels is merely "scavenging at the edges of tradition,'' says Father Richard Neuhaus, editor of the religious monthly First Things. But he adds, "That is fine. The Christian tradition is almost infinitely resilient...
...pianist, who is 79, was already a legend by the time he burst onto the international scene in 1960 with concerts in Finland and America. Like his late Soviet compatriot Emil Gilels, he had been a student of Heinrich Neuhaus' at the Moscow Conservatory, where he met Prokofiev and premiered the composer's Sixth, Seventh and Ninth piano sonatas. Unlike most of the fire- breathing Soviet wunderkinder, though, Richter came to the piano late, originally planning a career as a conductor; until he went to study with Neuhaus at age 21, he was largely self-taught...
...dessert (because who gives an entree as a gift?), there's 500 chocolate truffles (1 year, 4 months, 13 days' worth if consumed one per day) from Sweet Stuff, in the Shops by Harvard Yard, or 33 Platinum gift-wrapped balatons of Neuhaus Belgian chocolates from Cardullo's. Or what about 557 Australian candy-dipped preserved two-inch diameter apricots (that's a string of apricots 93 feet long) from Crate and Barrel, 48 Brattle Street? If your gift recipient is a pre-med and keen on staying up late to study, $1,000 will get you 166.66 pounds...