Word: pastorale
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What John Paul proceeded to do amounted to a restoration of the church on the scale of that carried out by the Council of Trent in the 16th century but in this case put through by the willpower of a single personality. Unlike John XXIII, who had led a sheltered...
Stocked with Irish and German Catholics when it first opened in 1912, the middle-class parish on the city's northern edge is increasingly filled with Asians, African Americans and Hispanics. That influx has not been enough to offset the impact of smaller families and the exodus of many parishioners...
3. South Wind Changing by Ngoc Quang Huynh (Graywolf Press). A Vietnamese refugee to the U.S. who was a young student in Saigon when the war ended tells movingly of surviving a Marxist re-education camp and escaping Vietnam by boat. His adventures in the U.S. include earning a bachelor...
This year's Regatta will most likely not resemble the pastoral print I have hanging on my wall. The tents that line the banks of the Charles seem more suited to house refugees than vendors. And the hordes of people crowding Memorial Drive will no doubt make a walk to...
"Giselle," a product of the Romantic Era, is a ballet which celebrates the depth of human emotions, the elemental bonds within a community, and the simplicty of pastoral life. Indeed, the ballet does not make sense unless these themes are stressed.