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...responsible. Marv sadistically tortures and murders at least a half-dozen people to get to Rutger Hauer, the Catholic Cardinal Roark. Marv’s other victims include Elijah Wood, playing a creepily mute cannibal, and Sin City’s creator Frank Miller in a cameo as a priest...
...responsible. Marv sadistically tortures and murders at least a half-dozen people to get to Rutger Hauer, the Catholic Cardinal Roark. Marv’s other victims include Elijah Wood, playing a creepily mute cannibal, and Sin City’s creator Frank Miller in a cameo as a priest...
...their shepherd could be autocratic, hardheaded and disapproving. For such disaffected followers, John Paul was not unlike another great Slavic moralist, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, lionized while his prophetic voice was raised against the Soviet behemoth and less welcome when he turned it on the victorious West. James Carroll, a former priest who has written frequently on the church and the Pope, says, "Americans clearly loved this man's goodness. But we were very, very uncomfortable with his absolute claims to moral certitude...
After the war, in the late 1940s, as the communist government settled in, the young priest embarked on what would be a rapid rise through the still embattled church's hierarchy. By 1967 he was a Cardinal. Mixing aggressiveness with accommodation, Wojtyla managed to build a huge church for 100,000 Catholic citizens in the industrial city of Nova Huta and reach out to a wide cross section of workers, youths and intellectuals. Yet what turned a provincial prince into a rising church star was the churchwide reform of Vatican II. At the Second Vatican Council (1961-65), Wojtyla contributed...
...plans for an ambitious tour, including a visit to the U.S. But the trip was postponed for health reasons, and in the interim, the Pope sent a pastoral letter to his bishops. The issue of female ordination, he declared, was an official nonissue. Not only could women not become priests, but there was to be "no more discussion" of the topic. Many laypeople were appalled that in the throes of a priest shortage, the Pope could so conclusively spurn so many willing to help. The Vatican claimed the decision was infallible--an apparent extension of that status beyond its historical...