Word: priesting
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...church to the point that Mary's statues have been removed from some sanctuaries and Catholic parishes have gradually reduced the traditional novena devotions to the Virgin. John Paul clearly thinks the reconsideration went too far, and his fellow venerators of Mary agree. In Eastern Europe, says Warsaw priest Roman Indrzejczyk, enthusiasm for Mary is no less than a "a reaction to the matter-of-fact religiousness of the West...
...priest and natives can do no more than grant one another their mutual irredeemability, the dignity of their otherness. Screenwriter Brian Moore, adapting his novel, avoids anachronistic political correctness, and director Bruce Beresford refuses melodramatic imposition -- no dancing with wolves for them. This magnificently austere epic makes us too feel (and taste and smell) that otherness, the discomfiting strangeness of these lives, the authentic tragedy of their collision...
BLACK ROBE. Sometimes you dance with the wolf; sometimes the wolf eats you. Bruce Beresford's dark drama, about a white priest among some truly savage savages, tops Kevin Costner's Oscar-winning 1990 romance by being anthropologically, if not politically, correct. It embraces ambiguity and is all the more powerful...
...partition. There was Anderson, blindfolded and chained to a bed, surrounded by guards who kept walking around him, tossing off mocking salutes and shouting, "Heil Hitler!" Jenco had his mouth sprayed with deodorant to stop his snoring. More than five years after his release, the Roman Catholic priest can still vividly remember the cruel games his captors would play, spinning him around and around, then laughing when, dizzy and disoriented, he would bump into things. One of the most searing moments came when a man in copper-tipped cowboy boots stood on Jenco's head. "I am not an insect...
...priest added that though eliminating homelessness is a tremendous task, "I have taken a vow to do it, so I look at the situation and make the best effort...