Word: roman
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...contemplate the straight and narrow when your cellblock feels like an episode of Touched by an Angel instead of Oz. "The difference between this and my last prison, where I was mixed in with violent criminals, is heaven and hell," says Dana Chaison, 51, a convicted drug offender and Roman Catholic. "It's kind of hard to focus on your rehab when you're always watching your back." Bossard Shawn, 32, says he saw his Muslim chaplain so infrequently at his former prison that he felt adrift. Now, under the regular tutelage of local imam Zaid Malik, "I have...
APPOINTED. BERNARD CARDINAL LAW, by the Vatican, to become the archpriest of St. Mary Major Basilica in Rome. Cardinal Law was forced to resign in 2002 as head of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston after numerous revelations of sexual abuse involving members of his clergy...
...just families that define themselves through foods. Whole cultures do so too. Muslims eat halal and Jews eat kosher and Roman Catholics forgo meat on Fridays. Moroccans don't eat what Swedes eat, who don't eat what the Japanese eat, who don't eat what Croatians eat. When families leave their home countries and settle elsewhere, the cultural feathering they bring with them--language, dress, music--is often shed within a generation. But the foods linger. "The last part of a culture that gets lost are the food ways," says Barrett Brenton, nutritional anthropologist at St. John's University...
...their children with quirky monikers. Geena Davis has just given birth to twin boys Kian and Kaiis, Helen Hunt bore girl MaKena lei Gordon, Rachel Griffiths christened a son Banjo Patrick, Jason Lee had boy Pilot Inspektor, and Cedric the Entertainer welcomed daughter Lucky Rose. And the august-sounding Roman appears to be the new Jack--Cate Blanchett and Debra Messing chose it for their sons this year. How will Mary-Louise Parker's son ever be able to hold his head up at celebrity day care? He got saddled with William...
...knighted by Queen Beatrix for his advocacy of gay rights. "We only have one marriage, civil, open to any couple." Opinion polls attest to a growing acceptance of gay marriage - one recent poll (commissioned by Elle) in France found 64% of those questioned favored it. But for the Roman Catholic Church, it amounts to an abomination. The Vatican laid out its position against the trend in a 12-page judgment last summer, thundering that "there are absolutely no grounds for considering homosexual unions to be in any way similar or even remotely analogous to God's plan for marriage...