Word: roman
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...faith's attraction differs for different Americans. At a recent public appearance by the Dalai Lama, a woman named Ellen White said it helped her "to make sense out of life" without the fear and guilt she associated with her earlier Roman Catholicism; converts also mention American Buddhism's relative lack of hierarchy. Meditation strikes some as a daily, direct experience of the sacred absent from Sundays-only religion; others hope to use it merely to tune out the late 20th century's frenzied multicasting or, as someone once advised, Be Here Now. Baby boomers embraced Buddhism as a means...
TIME TO STOP ROMAN...
...ROMAN POLANSKI, who these days may be more celebrated as a fugitive from the U.S. justice system than as a director, opened his musical version of Dance of the Vampires in Vienna last week. But in America a drama of a different sort unfolded after it emerged that Polanski's lawyer had had yet another meeting with the Los Angeles D.A.'s office, sparking a rumor that he was cutting a deal to allow the director of Chinatown to return to America. The 20-year-old warrant issued for Polanski's arrest is still in effect. He fled to Paris...
When the French Roman Catholic Church apologized last week for collaborating with the Nazis, it felt a little late. But it turns out a half-century is a rather prompt turnabout. Here's how long it has taken the church to vent its guilt...
Bill Cain is probably the only TV writer in Los Angeles who lives in a Jesuit parish and has taken vows of chastity and poverty. Cain, a 49-year-old Roman Catholic priest, is the co-creator and spirit behind Nothing Sacred, ABC's controversial new series about an iconoclastic, jeans-clad urban priest. Until now, Cain has written the show under the pseudonym PAUL LELAND, but a campaign against the show mounted by conservative Catholics prompted the priest to come forward. Cain argues that the show's critics don't recognize that Nothing Sacred is about one priest...