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Ratzinger's views resonate through the Pope's recent encyclical The Splendor of Truth, which sharply defined right and wrong. It also sought to instill a militant obedience in Catholics. Treating religion as a matter of mere emotion, says Ratzinger, has created a crisis in moral values for all societies. "It is essential to have common ground that can be attested to in moral and religious matters." The church's teachings, therefore, have to be unbending, Ratzinger believes. "Everyone, thank God, is free to decide whether or not he is able and willing to subscribe to the Catholic faith with...
Concubine is an Eastern film whose subject, scope and nonstop bustle will be agreeable to Western moviegoers. Anyone can appreciate the splendor of the theatrical pageantry or the dagger eyes of Gong Li as a dragon lady whose only commandment is survival. The scenes in the Peking Opera School, where boys are caned for doing wrong or right, are no less horrifying than the later tableaux of public humiliation at the hands of the Maoists. But Chen clearly sympathizes with the schoolmasters. From such brutality, he suggests, artists are created. Concubine offers another moral: From the crushing cultural restrictions...
...September 27, Tina Brown and her husband Harold Evans, president and publisher of Random House Trade Publishing Group, hosted a party at the New York Public Library to celebrate the publication of Richard Avedon's newest book. The usual suspects, leftovers from the '80s, were present in their sequined splendor, glorying in their celebrity...
...many theologians, Veritatis Splendor will be hailed as a brilliant summation of Catholic principles. "He wrestled with every hot potato of the last 20 years in fundamental moral theology," says Monsignor William B. Smith in the New York Times article, calling the work "a moral masterpiece...
...hopes to deliver his church from evil. For years the Pontiff has been aware that contemporary liberal morality has deeply influenced the beliefs and practices of the Roman Catholic Church's 980 million members. And he will have none of it. In his 179-page Veritatis Splendor (The Splendor of Truth), he argues that good is clearly distinct from evil, that morality is not situational, that right is right and wrong is really wrong, and that the church's teachings will truly set believers free. Among the evils the Pope sees at work in the world are genocide, torture...