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A mixed crowd of undergraduates and graduate students listened to Boston College Professor of Theology Lisa S. Cahill call for religious dialogue to deal more directly with today’s sexual culture.
Cahill’s unexpected turn from papal encyclicals to sexual slang characterized an address that asked students to examine what religious tradition has to say about the sexual realities of college.
“I think to have a talk like this on a campus that has been identified as not very religious is important because it provides a religious perspective on the hook-up culture,” said Christine M. Mitchell, a student at the Divinity School, referencing a...
These kids are all Rohingya, a religious and linguistic ethnic minority from Burma's northern Rakhine State, who have been fleeing state-sponsored persecution in their homeland since 1978. In 1991, when the population experienced widespread repression and abuse from security forces posted in Rakhine, a quarter of a million...
The U.S., on its part, also took steps to ensure the meeting with the Dalai Lama wasn't overly inflammatory to Beijing. Their session was held in the low-profile Map Room of the White House and no television cameras were allowed in. The location and the restrictions on press...