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Angry parents, politicians and clergy gathered on the steps of New York's city hall last week amid placards that demanded STOP FERNANDEZ FROM TEACHING OUR KIDS GAY SEX and DUMP KING CONDOM FERNANDEZ. What schools chancellor Joseph Fernandez is doing, warned Monsignor John Woolsey of New York's Roman Catholic Archdiocese, amounts to a "ratification of sexual promiscuity." Said outraged parent John Murnane: "Fernandez is insulting our children by telling them they cannot be educated as to what is right...
...Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire." (History...
...California, faithful turned out at churches of all denominations, including a large gathering at St. Vibiana's Roman Catholic Church in downtown Los Angeles. In Redondo Beach, 2000 parishioners attended Mass at St. Lawrence Martyr Catholic Church...
When Bernini was to do a sculpture of Charles and would not come to England, it was Van Dyck who supplied the "natural" image of the King -- three faces, looking left, right and straight ahead -- from which the Roman artist was to work. Van Dyck's portraits of Charles and Queen Henrietta Maria fixed them for posterity with a completion that few later artists could rival. They have the subtlest quality of propaganda: they make you forget that they are propaganda. If we think of Charles as the cultivated king par excellence, it is largely thanks to Van Dyck. There...
...charge of the most important documents of ancient Judaism to be discovered in modern times? Curiously, not a word about that ugly issue was uttered last week, when the Israel Antiquities Authority fired Harvard Divinity School professor John Strugnell as chief editor of the Dead Sea Scrolls. Ostensibly, the Roman Catholic layman was removed for "health reasons." Nonetheless, Strugnell's distasteful views -- and his propounding of them -- was a major reason behind his sudden departure...