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...though condemned to inferiority, the living artist could learn from his dead superiors, and what Canova extracted from Greek sculpture -- which he knew largely from Roman copies -- was its sense of grace and felicity, its subtle play of volumes and surfaces and its search for idealization within nature. He was not a "Roman" classicist, creating emblems of political virtue like Jacques-Louis David. From all we know of Canova, he never seems to have had a thought about politics -- which must have been an advantage for a man who worked for so many courts, papal and royal. Despite the mythological...
...question is how. As the first Protestant leader of a predominantly Roman Catholic country, Ramos needs to forge a new relationship with the church, which remains an important unifying force in a society riven by social, ethnic and political divisions. The job demands a felicitous combination of skill and character, and it is difficult to say whether Ramos has it. Though he has spent 46 of his 64 years in the public eye, he remains an enigma to all but a tight circle of relatives and friends, most of them fellow military men. A West Point graduate with a degree...
Cordiality aside, women's ordination turned out to be a big sticking point. The official communique stated that Archbishop Carey deemed the practice "a possible and proper development," while John Paul said it "constitutes a grave obstacle to the whole process of Anglican-Roman Catholic reconciliation." The Pope's latest warning on women, however, will do nothing to dissuade yes votes in England or elsewhere. For one thing, lingering hopes for Anglican-Catholic reunion were dashed last December by a significant Vatican pronouncement that ruled out any compromise on the powers of the papacy...
...Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire." (History...
Formally known as Victim Souls of the Unborn Christ-Child, the Lambs were founded in 1988 by the Rev. Norman Weslin, a Roman Catholic priest who retired from the U.S. Army with the rank of lieutenant colonel. His guiding principle ^ is the "mystical theology of the victim soul," meaning that Christ has often acted through seemingly insignificant persons or groups, like the Lambs. The Lambs' membership, mostly Roman Catholic, is divided into three groups: about 30 full-time activists, who travel around the country from clinic to clinic and jail to jail; 250 part-timers, who go on active duty...