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Most Muslims resemble Protestants in that no priest mediates between the believer and God (although the 10% Shi'ite minority is more enamored of its imams). Like Christians, Muslims evangelize and look forward to the eventual conversion of the human race. The faith's directness, bright-line moral stances and the absence of hierarchy have proved attractive to converts in the U.S., while its role for women, who make up only 15% of average Friday mosque attendance, repels some seekers...
...that ripped off his Sixth Sense twister ending? "I was bothered by it," he admits. "But I guess I'm flattered. So many times I'll come out of a movie and think, 'I wish I had done that!'" His new movie, Signs, stars Mel Gibson as an ex-priest wrestling with his beliefs ("I like to cast slightly against type," he understates), with Joaquin Phoenix as his brother. They own a farm that becomes the site of enormous, mysterious crop circles. A surprise ending to this one? He's coy, but promises it will be unique...
...your article "A Nun's Dangerous Talk," I was expecting to see a reference to a book by Miriam Therese Winter, Out of the Depths: The Story of Ludmila Javorova, Ordained Roman Catholic Priest. According to the book, during the cold war women were validly ordained as Catholic priests behind the Iron Curtain. The Vatican may ban the discussion of whether there should be female priests; it cannot deny the precedent. ALEXANDER CUDZEWICZ Scottsdale, Ariz...
...recent visit to Montana, I found that there were three Catholic churches about a 20-minute drive from where I was staying, but the nearest church with a priest and Sunday Mass was an hour away. Jesus' command is "Do this in memory of me." Instead of trying to silence discussion of the ordination of women, church leadership should be discussing ways to provide the Eucharist in all Catholic churches every Sunday. If there are not enough celibate male clergy, then the ordination of women and married people should be discussed. I offer my prayers to Sister Joan...
...north. The road through the mountains had ended some 10 km back and 1,300 m below. A bank of wild marijuana was on our left, and a series of terraces on our right led down to a sheer 500-m drop into a river gorge. A priest had just decapitated a goat on the flat roof of a house. He lifted the animal's head to the sun, slowly turning so that all could see. Then his assistants cut off its hooves and placed one each at the four corners of the building. None of the villagers was quite...