Word: pastorale
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Despite a lack of witches, wizards and fairies, A Winter’s Tale, one of Shakespeare’s final plays, is easily his most magical. Curses and condemnations, prophecies and resurrections dominate the plot, while pastoral scenes infuse the work with a folkloric ethereality. In this production, quick...
After weeks of silence, Pope John Paul II issued a vague Holy Week message, saying, "As priests we are personally and profoundly afflicted by the sins of some of our brothers who have betrayed the grace of ordination" and offered "concern" for the victims. But the muted words would not...
But it wouldn't take a Vatican II-style revolution to start improving the church's handling of sex abuse. Atlanta's Archbishop John Donoghue ticked off a few lessons in a recent pastoral statement: Report accusations immediately to the law. Cooperate in investigations. Move the accused away from kids...
But the allegations were not new. The paper charged that Paetz's inclinations had been known for at least two years, with several students quitting the seminary after they claimed to have been molested. A month after the allegations first appeared Paetz issued a pastoral letter saying, "I deny all...
Uruzgan nestles in a pristine valley ringed by snow-capped peaks that form a natural fortress in the mountains north of Kandahar. Its orchards climb peacefully to the snowline, a spectacle of pastoral tranquility that belies the village's emergence as the site of the largest U.S. ground operation of...