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...awakening to the one-ness of life and is a useful vehicle for social action, the first American-born Zen priest told an audience of more than 200 Tuesday night...
Throughout his youth, Scorsese thought he had a calling too. The future director of The Last Temptation of Christ yearned to be a priest. But another vocation beckoned. Charles and Catherine Scorsese, who today make occasional endearing cameo appearances in their son's films, took young Marty to the movies, and it was ossessione at first sight. He talks of old movies as a caliph might of all his beautiful women. So many films, so much informed love. "Watching Land of the Pharaohs as a kid, I felt I was in ancient Egypt," he recalls. "And I've been obsessed...
...then a boy of seven. He is the illegitimate son of the most rebellious Mundy sister by a wandering wastrel who, after years away, comes to call. The Mundy women live in memory too, of better days and higher hopes. So does their weary brother Jack, a defrocked priest sent home from his mission in Africa for embracing local gods and customs. Suffused through the background are the inescapable memories of Ireland: pagan revelry and medieval Christian learning, invasion and oppression, the landlord's power and the peasant's scorn...
This is why it was inappropriate for a minister--or a rabbi or a priest--to deliver a prayer at the inauguration. A speech would have been acceptable, but this was not a speech: Gomes was called on to represent religion, which (whether the contents of the prayer were specifically Protestant or not) means that "religion" and "Protestantism" are still officially equated...
...coup sent Jean-Bertrand Aristide into exile late last month, George Bush's first reaction was to denounce the overthrow and call for the reinstatement of Haiti's first democratically elected President. But last week Bush seemed to back away, citing allegations of human-rights abuses by the activist priest -- charges soon bolstered by an Organization of American States team in Haiti. Most disturbing: a Sept. 27 speech in which Aristide seemed to condone Pere Lebrun, a Haitian form of lynching in which a gasoline- soaked tire is set ablaze around a victim's neck. Officially, the U.S. % continued...