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Perhaps the most impressive fact about the Kirkland House senior is that she has definite plans for the future. Next year, McAnaney hopes to teach English as a second language to children in France...
Solentiname was a traditional peasant community on an archipelago off the coast of Nicaragua. Poet-priest Ernesto Cardenal, who became Minister of Culture after the Sandinistas came to power, went to Solentiname to teach the peasants to read. A friend of Cardenal also began a poetry workshop, teaching the previously illiterate peasants to write their own poetry, Gullette said...
Betcha didn't know that eating wallpaper could lead to constipation. Or that rubbing Metamucil in your eyes could irritate them. Neither do many employers, who are supposed to teach their workers such nuggets of wisdom; the government's Occupational Safety and Health Administration has not informed them of that obligation. Those who do know are in a fury...
...atmosphere worries Pope John Paul II, who is striving to tighten doctrinal discipline in the church. In 1986 Rome revoked the license of Father Charles Curran to teach theology at the Catholic University of America because of his open questioning of the church's stand on sexual morality. A more sweeping crackdown was hinted at three years ago, when the Vatican proposed a policy that would allow a bishop to strip a school of its Catholic status if it did not meet standards of orthodoxy. The policy, which is expected to be released in final form sometime next year...
...conservative Catholic educators, however, that is not enough. "A Catholic college should teach what the Catholic Church teaches is true," says Father Michael Scanlan, president of Franciscan University of Steubenville in Ohio. At Franciscan, that means scrutiny of on-campus lecturers and entertainers to ensure that they will not promote "immorality," and evaluation of faculty on the basis of their commitment to Catholic values. The doctrinaire approach has proved to be one of the school's main attractions. Franciscan was about to close when Scanlan assumed office in 1974 but this year took in its biggest entering class ever...