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Beyond being headline news (how often does a major faith admit to retooling its take on the afterlife?), the shift, telegraphed in the 1994 Catechism, should strike most believers as a very good thing. For centuries, Catholic couples lived in fear that in the tragic event that their newborns perished, the infants would go not to heaven but to a cheery yet inaccessible outer parking lot, a locale where they would enjoy eternal happiness but be denied the actual presence of God (and, presumably, of the parents, assuming they reached heaven...
...days later, King returned to Memphis to participate in another march, but what unfolded not only set back the nonviolence campaign but also set him on the path to his tragic fate...
...except in self-defense. As Stanley Williams reportedly tried to help the technician deliver his own lethal injection, it can hardly be argued that the state believed Williams to be an imminent danger. With the myriad problems afflicting the current criminal justice system, the death penalty also allows for tragic mistakes. Innocent people have too often had their convictions overturned for us to have confidence in the accuracy of the system. In the name of moral consistency, it is incumbent on all governors to grant clemency to those who face execution and commute their sentences to life imprisonment without parole...
...compelling twist on William Shakespeare’s tragic jealous-lover-turned-murderer story “Othello,” “Desdemona: A Play about a Handkerchief” features a comic cast of all female characters: Desdemona, her recently promoted chambermaid Emilia, and her friend Bianca, a local prostitute...
...first three albums, besides one Superchunk cover and “Wagon” off of “Green Mind.”Things kicked into high gear with Lou’s lead vocals on “Bulbs of Passion,” showing just how tragic his feud with J was. Lou’s buzzsaw attack was more distorted than any Lightning Bolt bass line. Barely 10 minutes in, an amp had already blown, and while J donned his usual icy glare, Lou chatted it up with the crowd, rambling on about how much they...