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...issue is whether Gibson rejects the doctrine enacted by the Second Vatican Council, which absolved the Jews of responsibility for Jesus’s death...
...Donning canonical robes, Hitchens found Gibson in violation of canon law. Hitchens declared that "He specifically rejects the findings of the Second Vatican Council," which absolved Jews of culpability in Jesus' death. But the Council "found" a lot of things; what Gibson disputed was not the resolution of the Jewish question but, for example, the abrupt shift in the Liturgy from Latin to the the faithful's own modern language. Another panelist, Newsweek's Jon Meacham, added the observation that "The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops has issued pastoral guidelines about how believers should dramatize the Passion ... almost every...
...quash the country's fledgling trade union movement, allowing the U.S. to pressure Moscow to back down. Kuklinski, who defected to the U.S. in 1981, said his espionage was motivated by his disdain for Poland's Soviet overlords. In 1994, Pope John Paul II received him at the Vatican, and four years later a court in postcommunist Poland exonerated him of a previous treason conviction, permitting him to visit the country he risked his life trying to save. -By Richard Hornik...
...since the likely Democratic nominee for President, Senator John Kerry, comes from Massachusetts. By unhappy coincidence, the Democrats will also hold their convention in Boston this summer. "It could be like Chicago 1968," says gay-marriage foe Ray Flynn, a former Democratic mayor of Boston and ambassador to the Vatican, who is now president of Your Catholic Voice. "The country will see the party as taken over by the radical left...
...invitation and a challenge. Hip-hop dance battles--much like the M.C. face-offs in the film 8 Mile--are becoming mainstream. The dance-battle scene has inspired a TV show (MTV's Wade Robson Project) and a film (You Got Served), and it even popped up at the Vatican (the Pope recently blessed an acrobatic bboy performance). "It's funny that it's being recognized on this level now, because it's been around, dominating in the urban centers for 30 years," says Crazy Legs, 38, a choreographer and ringleader of New York City's Rock Steady Crew...