Word: popes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Yoon's call for serious intellectual debate is nothing more than a call for didactic and patronizing writing. Instead of allowing editorialists to make complicated arguments in creative ways, Yoon wants us all to reject satire, wit and the fine traditions of Swift, Pope and Rabelais. Simply because he does not (or cannot) grasp more difficult genres doesn't mean that all writers must do away with them, however...
...guru took her message to the World Parliament of Religions this past summer when she spoke to more than 6,000 delegates, including the Dalai Lama. Ma is also an artist, and she recently presented her photographs of babies, children and adults with AIDS to Pope John Paul II in Rome...
...mystique, could be felt when he showed up last Monday as a guest on Conan O'Brien's show. Dave's gracious praise for his successor on Late Night -- "You've really done a great job to carve out a wonderful identity for yourselves" -- was like the Pope's benediction. O'Brien needs it; after six months, he is as awkward and clueless in front of the camera as the day his show was born...
Joseph Cardinal Bernardin sits in his fourth-floor office at the Chicago archdiocese two days after a suit against him alleging sexual abuse has been withdrawn. He has got calls from the Pope and the First Lady on his red phone, the only dash of color in the severely plain room. He turns away from his marble conference table to point at the window he looked out on the day before the suit was filed last November. He remembers seeing a few reporters huddled below near the canopy of the Barclay hotel, peering up at his office. Every time...
That Sunday, Nov. 14, CNN aired its hourlong special, which had been in the works for months. Cook's charges were added to the program and used to promote it. The show carried this introduction: "Charges that a prince of the church, a man eligible to become Pope, a Cardinal on the forefront of reforming how the church deals with clergy's sexual abuse, has himself fallen from grace...