Word: popes
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Richard J. Tarrant, Pope professor of the Latin language and literature, received the Levenson award for a senior Faculty member; Assistant Professor of Economics Andrew P. Metrick was recognized as a junior Faculty member, and Aaron R. Lobel, the Leverett House government tutor, received the award...
...industry--and, well, for this--estimates that 3 million people will line up in the next eight weeks to view what has come to be known as the Shroud of Turin, on public display for the first time in 20 years. Seven hundred thousand have reserved their places. The Pope will arrive on May 24 to venerate the relic. Some of the pilgrims who precede and follow him will no doubt come out of idle curiosity. Some will come to view a historic conundrum. But the majority will make the pilgrimage to the Shroud of Turin in order to attain...
...that is to say, the back and the front...thus impressed together with the wounds which he bore." The linen cloth had occupied a place of honor in a church in the tiny French town of Lirey since the 1350s; D'Arcis, who was writing to his Pope, complained that "although it is not publicly stated to be the true shroud of Christ, nevertheless this is given out and noised abroad in private." This annoyed D'Arcis, who wrote that a predecessor of his had ascertained that "the image is cunningly painted...a work of human skill and not miraculously...
...list were opponents, in one way or another, of women's rights: Hitler, with his famed Kinder, Kuche, Kirche policy; Khomeini, the fashion expert who brought back the chador; Reagan, with his hostility to abortion rights and the ERA; the sweet but incorrigibly patriarchal Pope John Paul...
...well represented among the movers and shakers, it isn't just because they've been too shy, too un-self-esteeming or too busy changing diapers. Part of the problem lies with the movers and shakers. For example, some of the job titles held by the males--such as Pope and Ayatullah--have never been open to women. We like to imagine, in the U.S., that guys who occupy corner offices and wear pinstripe suits are more woman-friendly than the ones whose names are stitched on their shirts. So it is depressing to realize that the Vatican...