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Over the past five years, Roman Catholic communities around the country have experienced a curious phenomenon: more women, most in their 20s and 30s, are trying on that veil. Convents in Nashville, Tenn.; Ann Arbor, Mich.; and New York City all admitted at least 15 entrants over the past year and fielded hundreds of inquiries. One convent is hurriedly raising funds for a new building to house the inflow, and at another a rush of new blood has lowered the median age of its 225 sisters to 36. Catholic centers at universities, including Illinois and Texas A&M, report growing...
There is nothing scary or suspenseful about the newest wave of horror films. Torture and barbarity are merely cheap shock. If you want a truly scary film, check out Roman Polanski's Repulsion or Rosemary's Baby. Polanski knows it's not gore that scares an audience but a steadily growing sense of overwhelming apprehension and dread...
Furthermore, Bose questions the validity of the Roman style of sovereignty, comparing it to the more loosely organized South Asian conception of Empire...
...Ruining Our Pun Re "A Not-Quite-Immaculate Conception" [Oct. 16]: The headline for the report on actress Keisha Castle-Hughes' pregnancy confused the Immaculate Conception of Mary with the virgin birth of Jesus. Roman Catholic dogma teaches that Mary was conceived without original sin and therefore didn't need to be baptized. Kenneth Sweigart Paradise, Pennsylvania...
...Roman Catholicism's Christoph Cardinal Schönborn has dubbed the most fervent of faith-challenging scientists followers of "scientism" or "evolutionism," since they hope science, beyond being a measure, can replace religion as a worldview and a touchstone. It is not an epithet that fits everyone wielding a test tube. But a growing proportion of the profession is experiencing what one major researcher calls "unprecedented outrage" at perceived insults to research and rationality, ranging from the alleged influence of the Christian right on Bush Administration science policy to the fanatic faith of the 9/11 terrorists to intelligent design's ongoing...