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...insinuating charm about the man. You can see how he might worm his way into the good graces of simple, pious people, for whom unquestioning faith is a ruling factor in their lives. Another priest, a church historian, points out that the habits of obedience, especially in a hierarchical religion like Catholicism, are particularly hard to break. And O?Grady was the kind of man who is capable of seducing a mother in order to gain easier access to his real prey, her children, both male and female. The trail of ruined lives he left behind - men and women incapable...
...year when films like the “The Da Vinci Code” and “Jesus Camp” have questioned the core beliefs and practices of popular religion, “Deliver Us From Evil”—a documentary about the Catholic Church’s lengthy history with pedophilia and subsequent cover-ups— turns a more realistic lens on similar subject matter. Written and directed by Amy Berg, a young journalist who said she felt compelled to make the film after Boston’s Cardinal Law scandal broke...
...They see no contradiction in any of this. Ask them to explain, and they all give the same answer - "everything has its place," which I take to mean that religion can be fun and dating acceptable, both worthy of inclusion in their lives. This kind of casual religious identity is a new phenomenon in Iran. For my parents' generation, there was no such Islam Lite. Back then, Iranians were either traditionally religious or whiskey-drinking secularites; fusion of the two lifestyles seemed virtually impossible. The same goes for Iranians of my generation, who grew up during the Iran-Iraq...
...some or all of these pleasures. You fit all these dissonant influences into your life, and found it wasn't so difficult to be many things at once. That's how kids from religious families ended up more independent and modern, and how kids from Westernized families worked religion into their lives. Everyone became Muslim Lite...
Last week, news outlets around the world announced that Madonna was reinventing herself, yet again. Although she has not abandoned using sex and religion to get attention, she has found a new way to drum up record sales: charity. The former material girl was to adopt a one-year-old boy from Malawi, an African country with one million children orphaned by the AIDS epidemic.Only 24 hours after this story broke, however, Madonna’s publicist insisted that the performer was not so much adopting one child but “kind of adopting an entire country of children...