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Another professor whose course flier declares, "Wake up, it's the 7th century!" (for History 1040: "The Fall of the Roman Empire") is also teaching in the ancient Core. Though this Historical Study B class doesn't double-count toward Gen Ed, about 20 people couldn't get in, and upperclassmen were flooding the hallways to such an extent that one lone freshman girl on the window-sill had to ask, "Can freshmen take this...

Author: By Bonnie J. Kavoussi | Title: Cores Flowing Out the Doors | 9/4/2009 | See Source »

...eulogy of the sitting President, which is impressive, but not really religious," said the Church official. "This way the Cardinal wanted to be sure the day ended as it should, in prayer." And so, the last word as Ted Kennedy was consigned to the earth would be from the Roman Catholic Church...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Pope's Response to Ted Kennedy's Letter: Pro Forma | 9/1/2009 | See Source »

...veteran official at the Vatican, of U.S. nationality, expressed the view of many conservatives about the Kennedy clan's rapport with the Catholic Church: "Why would he even write a letter to the Pope? The Kennedys have always been defiantly in opposition to the Roman Catholic magisterium." (Magisterium is the formal term for the authority of Church teaching.) (See a Kennedy family photo album...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: After Kennedy's Death: Silence from the Pope | 8/28/2009 | See Source »

...four decades Ted Kennedy remained the nation's most prominent Roman Catholic politician, as well as brother of America's first and only Catholic President. Ted Kennedy received his first Communion directly from Pope Pius XII, and his marriage in 1958 was performed by Cardinal Francis Spellman, the influential Archbishop of New York. His mother Rose once reportedly said that she'd dreamed that her youngest son would become a priest rather than a politician, destined to ultimately rise to bishop status. (See pictures of Pope Benedict XVI visiting America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: After Kennedy's Death: Silence from the Pope | 8/28/2009 | See Source »

Edward Kennedy, it can be said, was not cut out for the priestly life. His first marriage, to former model Virginia Joan Bennett, ended in divorce in 1982, with the marriage annulled by the Roman Rota more than a decade later. And there are the infamous episodes in his life that showed a man not quite in control of his demons. But ultimately, beyond his personal travails, Kennedy's relationship with the Church hierarchy was destined for conflict because of politics. The Senator became both the face and the engine of the liberal wing of the Democratic Party that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: After Kennedy's Death: Silence from the Pope | 8/28/2009 | See Source »

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