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...priesthood precisely because it promises to put a straitjacket on their compulsions and confusions. Alas, that straitjacket can often come undone. The absence of women in the higher reaches of the church further distorts the atmosphere; and the presence of large numbers of gay priests--forced to preach against their very identity and fight against their own need for love--only intensifies the psychological pressure of the priesthood. But conservatives are just as outraged. The abuse of children rightly provokes horror among traditional Catholics, and they have been admirably reluctant to close ranks behind the corrupted hierarchy. Besides, the most...
...Crown Prince is also overseeing a review of the Saudi school curriculum, which emphasizes Islam even in science and history classes, and churns out thousands of unemployed religious scholars every year. Still, education officials are making no apologies for textbooks that preach suspicion of non-Muslims, even to the extent of discouraging Saudis from congratulating Christians or Jews on their religious holidays. Abdullah rejects charges that the education system is breeding future bin Ladens, but many Saudis who can afford it prefer to send young children abroad for schooling. "I hate this fanatical crap my kids have...
...rather well-known writer had the audacity to appropriate an exquisite passage from the works of Isak Dinesen and weave it into his own story--unattributed, of course. Plagiarism never fails to induce a feeling of shock and deep disappointment. Fellow writers, editors and teachers, please continue to preach the word: plagiarism is wrong. Wrong, wrong, wrong! JACKSON MAHANEY Lebanon...
...throughout the Muslim world. Saudi money paid for many of the Pakistani madrassas that were the breeding grounds of the Taliban. And after the NATO bombing campaign freed the Kosovars from the threat of genocide by the Serbs, Saudi money financed the development of mosques in Kosovo that still preach the extreme Wahhabi sect of Islam...
...jokingly mentioned the headline the Crimson used to introduce her campaign, “Social Clubbers Preach Girl Power,” to announce “a departure from the stereotype the UC has been buried beneath...