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...schedule and most of the Pontiff's writings, translated into six languages. It will also have the capacity to field thousands of simultaneous information requests from all over the world. "The Internet is exploding, and the church has got to be there," says Sister Judith Zoebelein, the American-born nun who runs the site. "The Holy Father wanted it." Indeed, the Pope, who has always looked for innovative ways to spread the word, including travel, books and even records, was writing as early as 1989 about the opportunities offered by computer telecommunications to fulfill the church's mission, which...
When the conversation does lock onto a subject, there can be fireworks. In the series' best segment, "Apocalypse," about the Flood, British author (and former nun) Karen Armstrong conducts a blistering twin attack. God, she maintains, is "not some nice, cozy daddy in the sky." He is "behaving in an evil way," effectively introducing mankind to the idea of justifiable genocide. Noah, meanwhile, is a "damaged survivor" who says no word about those drowning around him, much less tries to help them. Drinking his troubles away after reaching shore, he is enraged at being seen naked...
...characters practice traditional English courtesy as if it is a vaguely remembered religious rite observed in the letter but not the spirit. And often they don't bother. Leigh's first TV film, the 1973 Hard Labour, has barely a kind word in its 73 minutes; even the nun to whom the saintly lead character offers charity is snarky and ungrateful...
There are, for example, the character Paul Theroux's comic misadventures with women. Visiting a leper colony in Malawi, he meets a nurse who is not a nun but who dresses in a nun's habit. "This stuff's cooler," she says, when he asks her why. "I mean, I'm naked underneath." Their attempt at a tryst--she has a room in the nuns' quarters--is not a success...
...brought conventions into living rooms across America, and every trace of honest disagreement, every hint of personal eccentricity has long since been banished from the halls. We throw floodlights into the press rooms after debates, and the comments are so meaningless that if one of the candidates pummeled a nun to the ground and stole her purse, we would hear him described as a firm advocate of the separation of church and state...