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...city's students, nearly 5% of the public school enrollment, now use vouchers to escape the public school system. In a controversial move, Ohio chose to include religious schools in the program. Today the vast majority of vouchers are used at more than 50 religious schools--Roman Catholic, Lutheran, Baptist, Islamic and Seventh-Day Adventist. (The U.S. Supreme Court has not yet decided if tax-funded vouchers for religious schools violate the First Amendment's separation of church and state.) The remaining vouchers are used at a handful of secular private schools, including two Hope academies, founded specifically for voucher...
...upon which all Christians believe that sinful humankind was forever redeemed. When I began to dance with these newly baptized converts in St. Peter's Square, the "real" world of conflict and anguish fell away for a few moments. I was amazed, once again, at the universality of the Roman Catholic Church...
...help. Then he remembered that the record of O'Neil's son's marriage in 1872 had contained a little mark indicating a dispensation of banns--forgoing the public announcement, on three successive Sundays, of intention to wed. Silinonte persuaded a diocesan official to take him to the Roman Catholic archives in Queens, where he found the 19th century ledgers stored in a corner. On the page was the elder O'Neil's place of birth: County Leitrim, Ireland. "You have to be stubborn," says Silinonte...
Oddly, a movie that features a trash-talking Apostle and a female God is not one with which Disney is eager to be associated. Dogma, written and directed by KEVIN SMITH, takes an unorthodox look at religion, and Disney, producer Miramax's parent company, fears it will offend Roman Catholics. So Miramax honchos Bob and Harvey Weinstein have said they'll buy the rights to the film and sell it to another distributor. Smith, a practicing Roman Catholic, says the movie "was always intended as a love letter to both faith and God almighty...
Foster can handle both with equal aplomb. In 1993 he completed a cultural center for the French city of Nimes, in Provence. It is right next to the city's most famous Roman monument, the so-called Maison Carree--a Corinthian temple dedicated to Augustus' sons in the year A.D. 4. It was Thomas Jefferson's favorite classical building--in fact, Jefferson based his whole conception of Neo-Classical architecture on it--and one obviously had to approach such a historical object with caution. Would the solution be a pastiche historical arts center? Foster was sure not. "I went there...