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...other hand, many urban public schools are already a war zone, and it is hard to dispute the data that show parochial schools to be the best hope in a bad neighborhood. In the U.S. the Roman Catholic Church operates 8,293 elementary and secondary schools with 2.6 million students, about half the number of their peak years in the mid-to-late 1960s. Due in part to a simultaneous decline in Catholic religious vocations, priests and nuns are largely gone from the classroom, replaced by lay professionals who now make up more than 85% of parochial-school personnel...
...country where the two tribes are hell-bent on destroying each other, where more than 150,000 people have been killed since 1993, where in July the last elected President had to flee for his life into the U.S. embassy, where he remains to this day. The Roman Catholic cleric would give no quarter to the murderers, either to the Hutu, who make up the majority of the country, or to his fellow Tutsi, who control the military. At a memorial for massacre victims last July, he declared, "Let me warn the killers and those who sent them: your crimes...
...actors are given a lovely set on which to perform, designed by Karl Eigsti. The elaborate facade of a huge garden room is a complement to the discussion of art and genre which proceeds within, what with its Roman arches, paired columns a la Michelangelo, and huge French doors one could imagine at Versailles. Most intriguing of all, a huge gleaming bronze pendulum swings slowly and mesmerizing lyacross the stage as the audience takes its seat, but disappears by the time the curtain raises for the first act. The image of that swinging ball remains impalpably, and the presence...
...verily, English-speaking Christians in search of Scripture suffered, not long ago, few perturbations. Protestants reached for the Authorized, or King James, version of 1611. Roman Catholics consulted the Douay-Rheims translation, first issued in 1609 but revised during the 18th century to resemble or duplicate in most particulars the memorable cadences and phrasing of the King James. For some two centuries, readers of either of these Bibles could feel that the word they sought was the Word, that they had access to the linguistic unity enjoyed by humankind before the Tower of Babel, "And the whole earth...
TIME calls them "barely visible blobs of protein." The fertility clinic calls them "living cells." A Roman Catholic Cardinal calls for a "decent burial." The Vatican newspaper calls it "a prenatal massacre." The parents who created these embryos don't call to claim them. The whole situation calls for a rational definition of the word human. And until we can settle on this, I call it nonsense. JOHN BRODSKY, M.D. Swarthmore, Pennsylvania...