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...sick parents (this was before Medicare even existed, let alone needed to be "fixed"). If a Strike It Rich contestant came up empty-handed, all was not lost: the host would urge viewers to call in on the "Heart Line" and pledge money and/or medical equipment. Despite this innovative, Roman circus-like approach to charity, the New York City-based show sparked a furor when local social-service agencies complained that they were being overwhelmed by indigent would-be contestants who had been showing up in Manhattan from all over the nation with no means of returning home...
...intensity of Heaney's poetry stems largely from a Roman Catholic temperament that has been baffled by doubt. "My language and my sensibility are yearning to admit a kind of religious or transcendent dimension," he once told an interviewer. "But then there's the reality: there's no heaven, no afterlife of the sort we were promised and no personal God." Or, as he writes in one poem, "Just the old truth dawning: there is no next-time-round." Readers of Heaney--or, for that matter, of Dante or of T.S. Eliot--are free to disagree with his beliefs...
...July 12, 1995, Dutch members of the U.N. Protection Force in Srebrenicia coldly watched the worst massacre in Europe since World War II. The U.N. "Protection Force," much like the Holy Roman Empire in the old joke, is neither much of a force nor does it protect anybody except for itself. The Dutch "soldiers" in Srebrenicia watched men, women and children be rounded up, listened to the shots ring out and even watched as Serbs put bullets through the heads of civilians. Cpl. Hans Berkers blithely proclaimed, "I don't feel guilty. It wasn...
...historical relativism: "Christ is God, and he knew what would happen in the future." Kevin Coyle, 35, a student at nearby Towson State University, disagrees with Sally's argument that women were not intended by Christ for the priesthood: "I look at other faiths and think, Why is the Roman Catholic Church different? I support women's rights. If women can hold other jobs and are intelligent and capable, why hold them back...
...book is fiction, but the reporter and his dedication are real. Bonfante, who is now TIME's Los Angeles bureau chief, was one of the key contributors to the story in this issue on the state of the U.S. Roman Catholic Church on the eve of Pope John Paul II's visit to America. The other was Richard Ostling, a senior correspondent and a frequent commentator on the MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour and CBS Radio...