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...York City's most renowned sandwiches are based on the East European- Jewish delicatessen meats, corned beef and pastrami, and the high priest of the genre is Leo Steiner, who oversees the action at the Carnegie Delicatessen & Restaurant. Half a pound of meat or more is thinly sliced and deftly layered between slices of seeded rye bread. "Not just anyone can build a sandwich like this," says Steiner. "It has to be many thin slices folded at the edges so there is the right texture, and the meat must be even on the bread so the customer doesn't bite...
...religious icons. Even a relatively small easel painting like Flower Day, 1925, is consciously hieratic in its symmetry, the stillness of its squat figures, the blazing epiphanic color and the clear identification of the Indian flower bearer, bowed under his angelic load of calla lilies, with a priest bowing before celebrants. And though dreadful excesses of cheap tourist cliche would sprout from Rivera's fusion of the thick crankshaft rhythms of pre-Columbian sculpture with the observed faces and bodies of Mexican peasants, there can be no doubt that in his hands, at least, it was a powerful union...
...priest living and working among young people, "fidelity to the human person" translates into concern for persons as individuals. Students who walk through the doors of St. Paul's or the Catholic Student Center are not homosexuals or heterosexuals, but individual persons. When one of them says "Father, I'm gay and having a difficult time knowing where I stand with the Church" or "My roommate is homosexual and I'm confused about what to say or do" the first and most basic thing that needs to be addressed is this person, his pain or anger, her confusion or bewilderment...
This brings me to honesty and insight--to what "fidelity to God's word" means. As a Catholic and a priest, I approach the search for life's most important and ultimate questions within a community that turns beyond itself for answers that are "more fully human." As a believing community, the Catholic Church holds to particular meanings and values for human life. We see these as flowing from our nature as persons created by God. On the basis of its scripture and ongoing tradition, the Church sees the meaning and value of sexuality itself in the context of human...
Rome has repeatedly placed its support behind Obando. But even without the Vatican's backing, it is doubtful that the Cardinal would turn to political activism. Born to Indian peasant parents in the south-central department of Chontales, he joined the Salesian order and became known as a priest to the poor, riding through rough country on horseback to visit impoverished backwoods villages. Though he has unquestionably gained stature in the course of his showdown with the Sandinistas, Obando remains a humble man, reluctant to venture far into the power game. "We, the bishops and the priests, shouldn...