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Though most tourists will never see the Baixada, they will feel its effect -- for the fear of crime colors the character of the entire city. Women avoid wearing necklaces and earrings. Drivers run red lights at night, lest they be held up at gunpoint while stopped. Some cars are equipped...
The conference's trouble began after the sponsoring Pontifical Council for Pastoral Assistance to Health Care Workers refused to allow a speech by militant Peter Larkin of England, one of several AIDS sufferers who were invited by the Vatican. Frustrated by the council's tight control of the agenda, some...
The statement, which is not a papal encyclical but simply an advisory document put out by the Church's Pontifical Commission on Peace and Justice at the Pope's request, condemns South Africa by name for its apartheid system. It also calls on the South African regime to overcome the...
This new confidence was signaled in 1985 when Oxford University's E.P. Sanders proclaimed in Jesus and Judaism, "The dominant view today seems to be that we can know pretty well what Jesus was out to accomplish, that we can know a lot about what he said, and that those...
Unfortunately, the implicit assumption of many higher critics is that the Gospels are too complex for the average reader to understand properly, since they mingle fact with myth and imaginative editing. The critics spin out "secret interpretations that no one knows without a Ph.D.," snaps Paul Mickey, a conservative at...