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Regular participants in the group, which averages about five to six in any given week, range from a 26 year-old woman with plans to attend the Kennedy School of Government to Kathleen O’Connor, a retired Vice Principal and self-described lapsed Roman Catholic from Brookline. Both women appreciate the group’s informality...
...Friday, William J. Levada, former Archbishop of San Francisco, will become the first new Cardinal to be elevated by Pope Benedict XVI at a Vatican ceremony. Levada already has the Pontiff's old job maintaining Roman Catholic orthodoxy as head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, making him the most influential U.S. prelate in history. He spoke with Time's Jeff Israely. how will you feel when you get your red hat from the Pope? Of course, I'm honored. But you also want to make sure your hat is on straight. Your new job places...
...Passion experience--especially the part in which critics hurled anti-Semitism charges at Gibson, an ultraconservative Roman Catholic whose father has questioned whether the Holocaust happened--thickened Gibson's hide along with his wallet. So if there are complaints about Apocalypto's portrayal of human sacrifice by the Maya, whose mostly impoverished descendants today are a cause clbre for liberals, Gibson says he won't care. "After what I experienced with The Passion, I frankly don't give a flying f___ about much of what those critics think...
Good thing. The most influential U.S. prelate in Roman Catholic history, Levada is tasked with maintaining doctrine and discipline among the 1.1 billion faithful at a time when several issues threaten to divide the flock. In November the church issued a controversial Instruction on gay seminarians. To Levada, "the document is very clear. A person with deep-seated homosexual tendencies is not suited for the priesthood." Another tricky topic: Should politicians be denied Communion if they espouse policies that contradict church teaching? Levada would like to see that debated more but says, "There are certain teachings that, as Catholics...
Towne’s screenplay matches perfectly with the subtle horror touches of Roman Polanski’s direction (until then best known for “Rosemary’s Baby”) to hold the viewers rapt through a strange plot involving water, money, murder, and incest...