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What single factor may explain why Whirlpool Corp. no longer donates to Planned Parenthood, why the Walt Disney Co. has a Roman Catholic priest on its board of directors and why Best Buy is cracking down on minors who try to buy shoot-'em-up video and computer games? Answer: a bunch of Catholic investors and their allies want it that...
...second the evangelical push for this tarted-up version of creationism, out of the blue appears a declaration from Christoph Cardinal Sch?nborn of Vienna, a man very close to the Pope, asserting that the supposed acceptance of evolution by John Paul II is mistaken. In fact, he says, the Roman Catholic Church rejects "neo-Darwinism" with the declaration that an "unguided evolutionary process--one that falls outside the bounds of divine providence--simply cannot exist...
...first extra-Roman excursion, to the Adriatic port of Bari on May 29, Benedict seemed uncomfortable with the chants of "Be-ne-det-to!" by young Catholics eager to pick up the old "Gio-van-ni Paolo!" tradition. (In subsequent weeks, he even shushed them.) "John Paul built a rapport based on [such] enthusiasm," says a Rome-based Cardinal. "This Holy Father tends to diminish the importance of enthusiasm." While preaching, Karol Wojtyla would wave, gesticulate and repeatedly make the sign of the Cross. Benedict's pulpit style is austere by contrast, which more and more seems a philosophical choice...
...What is ROMAN POLANSKI'S good name worth? £50,000 ($87,000) plus court costs, according to a London jury. The director of Chinatown and The Pianist won a libel case against Vanity Fair for a 2002 story that portrayed him as trying to seduce a Scandinavian model on his way to the 1969 funeral of his wife Sharon Tate, who was murdered by followers of psycho guru Charles Manson. The magazine stood by the story but said that the incident happened a few weeks later than reported...
DIED. GAVIN LAMBERT, 80, keenly observant critic, screenwriter and chronicler of Hollywood; in Los Angeles. An ex-assistant to director Nicholas Ray, he became editor of the influential British film journal Sight & Sound before turning out such screenplays as The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone and I Never Promised You a Rose Garden and writing biographies of such Hollywood stars as Norma Shearer and Natalie Wood...