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Racing in the single scull, Parker won back-to-back national championships in 1959 and 1960, as well as at the Pan Am games in ’59. He captured fifth place at the Olympics in Rome the following year...
...which recommends a zero-tolerance policy that would remove from priestly duties any clergyman who had ever molested a minor, and also requires all sex-abuse charge to be reported to the police. Instead, the Vatican called for further study by a panel of eight clergymen - four appointed by Rome, four by the U.S. bishops - to reconcile their differing views on how to approach an issue that has sparked a crisis of confidence among the American faithful...
...Vatican's failure to endorse the Dallas proposals came as no surprise, and Notre Dame professor Scott Appleby, says that in light of previous differences between Rome and the U.S. bishops, the Vatican's response was actually more positive than had been expected. "Historically, the Vatican has been much more paternalistic," Appleby said. "There has been much more 'Here's what you're going...
...When Sigma Chi was founded in 1855, the cross was immediately adopted as its symbol, with the accompanying motto, In Hoc Signo Vinces—in this sign you will conquer. Both the symbol and the phrase were taken from a legend about Constantine, the first Christian emperor of Rome, who supposedly saw a cross in the sky before going to battle...
After World War II, Hammond’s love of the classics led him to head the School of Classical Study at the American Academy in Rome. He twice served as the director of Harvard’s Villa I Tatti in Florence, the University’s center for renaissance studies...