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...Sale price of a 1941 Inglenook Cabernet Sauvignon, a commercial-auction record for a standard-size bottle of California wine, purchased by film director Francis Ford Coppola's son Roman...
...struggling cultures have similarly translated godly law into earthly order and in doing so helped ensure their survival. The earliest Christians established a rough institutional structure that allowed them to transmit their ideas within a generation of Christ's death, and as a result succeeded in living through the Roman persecution; the Jews of the Diaspora moved as a cultural whole through the nations of Europe, finding niches wherever they could but maintaining their identity and kinship by observing the same rites. "All religions become a bit secular," says Wilson. "In order to survive, you have to organize yourselves into...
...makes all the political sense in the world: take your wedge issues--abortion, same-sex marriage and stem-cell research--and aim them at a population whose membership in the Roman Catholic Church and other Christian churches exceeds 90%. That's the strategy deployed this season by Focus on the Family, the conservative group run by James Dobson, to try to sway the Hispanic vote for George Bush. Its "Vote por Sus Valores," or "Vote Your Values," radio and television spots began running on Spanish-language media around the country last week--along with a cascade of commercials from...
...Pedro Almodóvar, the Oscar - winning Spanish director whose latest film, Bad Education, deals with homosexuality and the Roman Catholic Church, finds the clerics' opposition self - defeating. "What the Church is doing?really badly?is fighting against citizens," Almodóvar told TIME. "As secularism grows stronger and stronger every day, the role of the Church is growing smaller and smaller...
...just Roman Catholics who struggle with gay rights, though. Bitter rows over homosexuality have ruptured the 70 - million - strong Anglican Communion. Last week a panel set up by Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams published its recommendations on how to defuse a crisis that boiled over last year when American Episcopalians consecrated an openly homosexual bishop and a Canadian diocese authorized church blessings for same - sex unions. Those positions may reflect popular secular opinion in some parts of North America, but they have infuriated conservative Anglicans all over the world. Josiah Iduwo - Fearon, an archbishop in the fast - growing, 17.5 - million...