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...Twain said, but it often rhymes. As the markets growled, historians recalled the grisly years of 1973-74, a downturn driven not just by a sick economy but by disillusion over everything from Vietnam to Watergate. This too is a summer not of one scandal but of many--the Roman Catholic Church, and the FBI, and Major League ballplayers on steroids. Comedians joke that Arthur Andersen tries to cover up corruption by rotating accountants from diocese to diocese, that Enron and K Mart will merge so Martha Stewart can design the prison uniforms. In each case it is the mighty...
...Twain said, but it often rhymes. As the markets growled, historians recalled the grisly years of 1973-74, a downturn driven not just by a sick economy but by disillusion over everything from Vietnam to Watergate. This too is a summer not of one scandal but of many-the Roman Catholic Church, and the FBI, and Major League ballplayers on steroids. Comedians joke that Arthur Andersen tries to cover up corruption by rotating accountants from diocese to diocese, that Enron and K Mart will merge so Martha Stewart can design the prison uniforms. In each case it is the mighty...
Another new feature is the capability to display foreign language records in the original script. Previously, non-Roman languages were “Romanized”—transliterated in Roman characters...
Andrew Sullivan has given an eloquent voice to the very real frustrations that we lay Roman Catholics have experienced, not only in the wake of the recent scandals, but in our everyday lives [RELIGION, June 17]. The threat to the church in America is very real, and Sullivan is correct that the voice of change must come not from the hierarchy but from the congregation. Perhaps one upside to this scandal is that we Catholics are finally beginning to open a dialogue for change. As a gay Catholic who has struggled with my desire for a spiritual life...
...fullest of these is the Technicolor spectacle called Revelation. The book is usually attributed to John of Patmos and dated around A.D. 95. John was responding to the horrific persecution of early Christians under the Roman emperor Nero. (Among other things, he had them coated with pitch and burned alive in his gardens.) The book incorporates the extravagantly harsh yet finally hopeful scenarios now familiar to believers: the earthquakes and plagues, the Four Horsemen and Seven Seals, the battle against the Antichrist, Christ's 1,000-year earthly rule of peace and righteousness (called the Millennium). And lyrically, these lines...