Word: pastorale
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For Weakland, 71 and one of the U.S. episcopate's last unregenerate liberals, his fourth tete-a-tete with John Paul next week may well be his last. Bishops usually retire at 75, and the Pope is unlikely to grant an extension. Made Archbishop by Pope Paul VI at the...
Others--and I am not among them--dismiss what they call the "black armband" reading of history, seeming to regard Aborigines as just another ethnic community. They also express concern for the future of the pastoral and mining industries which they see as threatened by Mabo.
At first it was assumed that claims could only apply to Crown land (that is to say, land which had not been alienated). But in the Wik case the Court reinforced Mabo, finding that native title could co-exist with pastoral leases.
A more tranquil work, Ravel's Daphnis and Chloe Suite No. 2, closed the concert. Unfortunately, various events so depleted the ranks of available singers that the choral component of Ravel's score remained unsung. Fortunately, the lack was hardly noticed in the grandeur of the orchestra's performance. The...
A giant turquoise-and-pink Jesus Christ alongside a black mural of Che Guevara. Fidel Castro's hand gently guiding Pope John Paul II's shuffling steps. Symbols of accord amid substantive disagreement. The pastoral and the political came together in Cuba last week just the way the missionary of...