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...Oresteia” is excellent, experimental, wildly ambitious theater, and its like should be encouraged—ambition like this is not a fault. A word to the HRDC, which, like a parish church, distributed collection envelopes in “The Oresteia” Playbill: put politics aside, please embrace the cutting-edge, and take risks. More of the same of this sort is good. (Similar attempts at experimentation should be more encouraged...
...lived and worked in the farmlands around the simmering mountain, the early signs of eruption were accepted as part of the environment. Nor could anyone have predicted that the disaster would finally take place at night, the time of maximum vulnerability. Said Father Augusto Aosorio, one of Armero's parish priests: "We knew the danger was there. But we just cheerfully got accustomed to it." Aosorio was extraordinarily lucky: only hours before the eruption, he had left town to meet with his bishop in Ibagu?...
...conference: "Following the euphoria of the council, certain negative developments have crept in, and they must be soberly analyzed and, if necessary, corrected by the synod." Conservative U.S. lay Catholics have lobbied for synod action on empty seminaries, dissident priests and nuns, and what they consider to be inadequate parish education. But the most noteworthy reforms enacted by Vatican II are no longer at issue...
...like the stooped village pastor in Bernanos' 'Diary of A Country Priest' than a man set to help choose the next pope. My colleague Jordan Bonfante approached him, and asked how he felt this impending conclave compares with the last two. "In 1978," he said, "I was just a parish priest." In other words, far from the intrigue and politicking of Rome. Only in 1980 was he made a bishop, and it took another 21 years to become Cardinal. "And how are you feeling," Jordan asked, "about this Conclave?" At that point Poletto gave a dismissive wave of his hand...
Thursday, April 21. Neil Gershenfeld discusses “Fab: Personal Fabrication, Fablabs, and the Factors in Your Computer.” 6:30 p.m. First Parish Church. Free...